Middle East to Become an EVEN MORE Convoluted Mess as Syria Splits....
Posted on 12/10/2012 7:20:50 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
I saw this earlier. The Iranian press is reporting this:
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“Over 3,000 US troops have secretly returned to Iraq via Kuwait for missions pertaining to the recent developments in Syria and northern Iraq, Press TV reports.
According to our correspondent, the US troops have secretly entered Iraq in multiple stages and are mostly stationed at Balad military garrison in Salahuddin province and al-Asad air base in al-Anbar province.
Reports say the troops include US Army officers and almost 17,000 more are set to secretly return to Iraq via the same route.
All US troops left Iraq by the end of 2011, after nine years of occupation, as required by a 2008 bilateral security agreement between the two countries. The troops left Iraq for the neighboring Kuwait.
Washington decided to pull out all its troops from Iraq after Baghdad refused to grant legal immunity to the remaining US soldiers.
Washington claims that the only US military presence left in Iraq now is 157 soldiers responsible for training at the US Embassy, as well as a small contingent of marines protecting the diplomatic mission.
US-led forces attacked Iraq in 2003 and toppled Saddam Hussein on the pretext of possessing weapons of mass destruction. But no WMD was ever discovered in Iraq. At the peak of the US-led military operation in Iraq, there were 170,000 US troops and more than 500 bases in Iraq.
More than one million Iraqis were killed as the result of the US-led invasion and subsequent occupation of the country, according to the California-based investigative organization Project Censored.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/12/09/277127/3000-us-troops-secretly-return-to-iraq/
Syrian Jihad Group Takes Gov’t Base, U.S. Designates It Terrorist Organization
As the Post goes on to remind us, at the end of last week, member groups of the new Syrian opposition command, the Syrian Opposition Coalition, met in Turkey, but the Nusrah Front was not invited. It is expected that the U.S. will recognize this umbrella group as the legitimate representative of Syria on Wednesday at a meeting in Morocco — meanwhile, the military and tactical vanguard of the rebel forces continues to be undeniably jihadist elements such as the Nusrah group, by their advantages in organization, commitment, expertise gathered in places such as Iraq, enthusiastic funding from Gulf Sunnis, etc., a trend no level of involvement the U.S. is considering seems likely to reverse.
Geez,....seems to me...that Team Obama is gonna have a problem at some point here...
No different then the garbage they have been pulling on us. They excluded their armed, funded and trained terrorist Al Qeada force from the Umbrella Leadership Group, and viola, they are no longer responsible.
Thank, yes, that is the same article quoted and linked to in the original article of this thread.
No mention of what they have in Syria.
I think I heard about the USS Eisenhower on Fox News the other day.
Only if someone someday somewhere on planet Earth holds him accountable for something he has done or said. The next time will be the first time.
Middle East to Become an EVEN MORE Convoluted Mess as Syria Splits....
These guys are the ones doing the real damage to Assad.
There might be a problem ahead.
The Iranians have been yapping for days about a captured US drone.
LOL... yes, seems right.
But, but,.. I thought he said that “.... America’s war in Iraq will be over”?!?!
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20123800-503544/obama-announces-end-of-iraq-war-troops-to-return-home-by-year-end/
Gosh darn that evil GW Bush....
Obama’s got more Muslim radical pals who need American blood for their moon god.
Definitely. Hillary's signature is on the Federal Register notice identifying Jabhat al-Nusra a terrorist organization. They are more or less now admitting they have been working with Al Qeada terrorist in Syria. They claim they are blacklisting them now to gain broad international support for the new leadership coalition they are building. Jabhat will be a problem for anyone who goes into Syria now. Just as they were in Iraq. My guess is the administration now realizes that Jabhat was so successful they have come to acquire Syrian WMD. So they are running away from the terrorist group.
I’m sure 0bungles got legal immunity for these guys before sending them back in. /s
Al Nusrah Front, foreign jihadists seize key Syrian base in Aleppo ( Chemical Weapons here?)
FR could use its own spy satellites or drones
That's because he's flying by the seat of his pants.
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