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| Iraq |
| UK to boost military aid to Iraq, Kurdistan region |
| 2015-05-31 |
| [Rudaw] ERBIL, Kurdistan Region -- The United Kingdom has announced it will boost its commitment to Iraq, agreeing to send military experts to Iraq and the Kurdistan region to train bomb-disposal teams and other Iraqi forces, the UK National Security Council in a statement on Thursday. The UK will send military advisers, trainers and an undisclosed number of soldiers, according to the statement. The announcement from the UK described the Kurdistan region as safe and conducive for carrying out military campaigns against the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... . "The military trainers will share their skills in dealing with roadside kabooms and other improvised bombs that have been a favorite weapon of Islamic State [ISIS] holy warriors," said the statement. "The UK wants to send bomb-disposal teams to Erbil and Baghdad to provide military facilities to the Iraqi forces," the statement said. According to UK media, 100 military advisers and military trainers have been stationed in the Kurdistan region and have trained 1,200 Peshmerga on weapons, urban warfare and bomb disposal. The UK launched its first |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #3 What is given to Kurds? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-05-31 14:04 |
| #2 Down the drain! What is given to the Kurds is well used, and multiplied by being used to take weaponry from ISIS. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2015-05-31 10:38 |
| #1 Down the drain! |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-05-31 01:58 |