Iraq’s Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Ja’afari has once again warned about the global dimension of the threat posed by the Takfiri ISIL terrorists while rejecting foreign boots on the country‘s soil to battle the terror group.

As the Obama administration prepared to bomb Syria without Congressional or U.N. authorization, it faced two problems. The first was the difficulty of sustaining public support for a new years-long war against ISIS, a group that clearly posed no imminent threat to the “homeland.” A second was the lack of legal justification for launching a new bombing campaign with no viable claim of self-defense or U.N. approval.

„Ich hoffe, dass alle Einschränkungen aus dem Vertrag über die Begrenzung der strategischen Offensivwaffen die USA juristisch dazu verpflichten, diesen Rahmen nicht zu brechen“, führte er weiter aus.

Der Kampf gegen den „Islamischen Staat“ sei von Russland und den USA auf hoher diplomatischer Ebene in der Uno und bei inoffiziellen Verhandlungen zwischen Vertretern beider Länder in Moskau erörtert worden, so Reuters. Die Seiten konnten aber ihr gegenseitiges Misstrauen nicht überwinden und nicht zu substantiellen Vereinbarungen gelangen.

“It’s their country, it’s their business. I don’t think major ‘boots on the ground’ is the right answer,” said one Army infantry officer and prior-enlisted soldier who deployed to Iraq three times. He responded to the survey and an interview request but, like several other service members in this story, asked not to be named because he is not authorized to discuss high-level military policy.

The Corps is still in the process of working with host countries to determine where the unit will be based, Coffman said, but it’s likely the Marines will train with militaries from four countries in Central America and one in the Caribbean: El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Belize and the Dominican Republic.

“The Americans have admitted that the coalition will fail to destroy the ISIL,
unless Iran helps in the fight,” he said, IRNA news agency reported Sept. 28.

“Air strikes can not destroy a terrorist group. As we can see, despite the air strikes, the ISIL managed to attack [the city of] Kobane,” Rafsanjani said.

Saudi Arabia has said „unprecedented challenges“ facing Yemen since Shi‘ite Muslim rebels took over the capital could threaten international security, and called for swift action to deal with instability in its southern neighbor.

Many of you may already have been involved with our partners in Africa, in various military to military activities, such as ‘Safe Skies for Africa’ and you know about the need for assistance in the development of professional militaries,” Ward said.(..)
The new air component of Africom will be responsible for every increasing levels of air domain safety and security on the continent as well as meeting mobility requirements with the command and for Africom partners. Search and rescue is also part of its work.

Die Kurden im Irak haben die Qualität der vom Westen gelieferten Waffen bemängelt. Der Präsident der Autonomen Region Kurdistan im Nordirak, Masud Barzani, richtete am Freitag eine entsprechende Beschwerde an Bundesverteidigungsministerin Ursula von der Leyen, die zu einem Besuch im kurdischen Erbil weilte.

„Erdogan erklärte, die Türkei und ihre NATO-Verbündeten arbeiten an einem Plan, um Bodentruppen im Kampf gegen ISIS zu entsenden, denn ‘Angriffe aus der Luft ohne Angriffe vom Boden seien nutzlos.“

For this reason, Pentagon spokesman Brigadier General John Kirby claimed that Turkey is an obligatory partner and State Secretary John Kerry stated: “Turkey will be in the first front.”
The US plan is a whirlpool for the Turkish armed forces!
No to the memorandum
Turkey has to say no to both memorandums on 2 October. These memorandums are introduced as a part of the US plan.

The reason you so infrequently see the word “lie” in elite media news stories is that the editors generally take the position that even when someone has said something clearly not true, a reporter’s use of the word “lie” — rather than, say, “misspoke” or “was incorrect” — requires knowledge of the subject’s intent to deceive. And a fair-minded journalist, they argue, can’t be sure what’s going on in someone else’s head.