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Iraq
Lavrov: Russia sending arms to KRG via Baghdad
2015-10-04
[RUDAW.NET] Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Thursday his country has been coordinating with the Kurdish forces battling 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 bandidos murderous Moslems in Iraq and has been sending arms to them through the central government in Baghdad.
What odds they'll actually make the journey from Baghdad to Erbil?
Lavrov said a joint information center has been set up in Baghdad for cooperation between regional countries taking part in the war against ISIS, as the Islamic State is known.

"Military representatives from Iraq, Iran, Syria and Russia and the Kurdish government are with this information center which we established in Baghdad," Lavrov told Rudaw at a presser at the United Nations
...an idea whose time has gone...
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Russian aircraft have carried out dozens of missions in Syria since Monday following Moscow's announcement it will directly join the fight against ISIS Lion of Islams.

Various media reports have said the Russian Arclight airstrikes also targeted anti-regime forces of the Free Syrian Army
... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund...
, which is largely supported by the West.

"ISIS is not like Al-Qaeda who often fled after attacking an area," Lavrov said. "ISIS controls these areas to establish a caliphate. They want a caliphate stretching from Portugal to Pakistain," he added, warning that efforts should concentrate on eradicating the Lion of Islam group.

Kurdish defense officials told Rudaw they had no knowledge about the information center and had no representative in Baghdad for that purpose.

Ministry of Peshmerga spokesperson Jabar Yawar said they had not being informed about "any cooperation between Iraq, Iran, Syria and Russia" in Baghdad.

At the UN presser Lavrov also said arms had been shipped to Peshmarga forces.

"We have replied to the Kurdish request regarding armament and send arms to them through Baghdad," Lavrov told Rudaw.
Posted by:Fred

#1  What odds they'll actually make the journey from Baghdad to Erbil?

Russian remonstrations with non performing local officials might be quite different from American remonstrations.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-10-04 02:44  

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