US newspaper: Washington will fail wedge is driven between the Iraqi government and the popular crowd
US newspaper: Washington will fail wedge is driven between the Iraqi government and the popular crowd
04/04/2015 08:10 GMT
Follow-up -oara – promised an American newspaper, that the United States “will not be able to drive a wedge” between the Iraqi government and the forces of the popular crowd.
While I expected to be a battle of Mosul different for the most violent battles with Daash, said that the Pentagon’s position “is not known,” the spread of the popular crowd forces in Mosul during editing.
The newspaper USA TODAY US, in a report that the “popular crowd forces played a major role in Tikrit, which began a few weeks ago,” noting that “the Iraqi government requested after achieving some initial successes, last week, the assistance of the US Army, where he agreed Department of Defense (Pentagon) to carry out air raids and reconnaissance missions, provided that step down the popular crowd forces aside. ”
The newspaper added that “American planes carried out nearly 40 air strike on al Daash in Tikrit over the past week, according to the statement of the US Central Command,” indicating that “the United States hopes to invest the successful outcome of the attack, to drive a wedge between the Iraqi government and the forces of the crowd, but this format It may not be realistic. ”
The newspaper quoted a former assistant to the five ambassadors of Americans worked in Iraq, Ali Khaddara, saying that “US officials must be dreaming if they think that they can convince the Iraqi government to put aside the popular crowd about the ongoing military operations against al-Daash”, expressing his belief that there is “a lot of wishful thinking going on on that topic among Americans. ”
Said retired US Army Colonel, Richard Welch, who spent years in Iraq, supervisor of the reconciliation efforts, according to the newspaper, “The crowd PDF crowd became part of the state institutions, as has become entrenched in which more and more.”
The newspaper reported that “the Iraqi government appreciates the US attribution but went praise the largest of the vital role played by Iran’s ground forces, of the popular crowd, especially since the exclusion of the US President to send any ground troops to fight Iraq,” PSC / h
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