Boots on the ground: Denmark and U.S. sending 1,620 additional troops to 'fight' ISIS
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The announcement was made on Friday by the Pentagon press secretary. U.S. Navy Rear Admiral John Kirby said that the troops would be serving in non-combat roles by joining the existing advise-and-assist mission and by initiating a comprehensive training effort for Iraqi-Kurdish forces.
Kirby added that Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel had recommended to increase the number of troops following a request from the Iraqi government and an assessment of Iraqi units by the U.S. Command.
Kirby noted that the U.S. Central Command evaluated the progress made by Iraqi troops in the field. He added that the deployment plans coincide with a and plans for a more offensive posture against ISIL. Kirby said:
"U.S. Central Command will establish two expeditionary advise-and-assist operations centers in locations outside of Baghdad and Irbil to provide support for the Iraqi at the brigade headquarters level and above".
Kirby added that some 630 of the newly authorized troops would be assigned to expand existing advise-and-assist missions while Centcom would establish several new training sites across Iraq that would accommodate the training of 12 Iraqi brigades. Nine of these brigades would be from the Iraqi army while three of them would be Kurdish brigades.
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Danish Defense Minister Nicolai Wammen and U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel
Speaking of the remainder of the 1,500 troops Kirby was less specific, saying they would be assigned to various roles, including logistics and force protection. Troops are likely to be deployed in the Anbar, Diyalah and Baghdad provinces.
The deployment of the up to 1,500 additional U.S. troops will be coordinated with the deployment of troops from other . Among them will be 120 troops from Denmark which Danish Defense Minister Nicolai Wammen agreed to deploy, said Kirby. He added:
"Ultimately these Iraqi forces, when fully trained, will enable Iraq to better defend its citizens, its own borders, and its interests against ISIL. ... and it is perfectly in keeping with the mission the we have been assigned there to assist the security forces and the Pershmerga forces again as they improve their capability against ISIL".
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John McCain meeting illegally in a rebel safe house with the heads of the “Free Syrian Army” in Idlib, Syria in April, 2013. In the left foreground, top al Qaeda terrorist leader Ibrahim al-Badri (aka Al-Baghdadi of ISIS, aka Caliph Ibrahim of the recently founded Islamic Empire) with whom the Senator is talking. Behind Badri is visible Brigadier General Salim Idris (with glasses), the former military chief of the FSA, who has since fled to the Gulf states after the collapse of any semblance of the FSA.
Ironically, Saudi Arabia, which is one of the main sponsors of ISIL since 2012 is part of the "coalition" Kirby referred to, while rogue U.S. networks, including Senator John McCain have been instrumental in providing weapons to the terrorist organization and providing other support.
A person from within the inner circle around former Lebanese PM Saad Hariri informed nsnbc that the final green light to invade Iraq with ISIL brigades was given on the sidelines of the Atlantic Council's Energy Summit in Turkey, in November 2013 .
The utilities of supporting and combating ISIL are according to analysts, the "Balkanization" of Iraq, the strengthening of a U.S. and Israeli dependent Kurdish government in the North of Iraq, thus depriving Baghdad from sovereignty over the country's resources, the conquering of Syria's oil-rich Deir Ez-Zour province by ISIL to deprive the Syrian government from sovereignty over the resources while funding ISIL , and the creation of a pretext for a direct military confrontation of Syria.
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