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2019-07-02 Iraq
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Baghdad demands US proof of Saudi drone attacks launched from Iraq
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[Rudaw] Baghdad has called on the United States to provide evidence after Trump administration officials said a recent drone attack on Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
's oil pipelines was launched from Iraqi territory.
Two Saudi pumping stations were struck in a series of drone attacks on May 14, causing a fire and some minor damage. Aramco, the Saudi state oil company, was forced to briefly close its 700-mile east-west pipeline as a result.
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Iran-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets
 ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth . Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
fighters in Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
frequently attack Saudi infrastructure with drones and missiles launched over its southern border. However,
some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves...
US officials said last week the attack against its Saudi allies came from the north ‐ from Iraqi territory.
Although they did not rule out the claims, Iraqi officials have denied knowledge of the attack’s origin and insist any such activity on their territory would not be tolerated.
"Iraq is committed to preventing any attacks on neighbouring countries from its territories," Nasir Harki, a member of the Iraqi parliament’s security committee, told Rudaw English on Sunday
"However,
some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves...
there is not enough clear evidence that proves or denies the drones that attacked Saudi Arabia’s oil pipelines were launched from Iraq," he added.
Harem Kamal Agha, who also sits on the security committee, told Rudaw English: "The Iraqi parliament, alongside the Iraqi prime minister, is waiting for the US response regarding their comments about recent Saudi drone attacks originated from Iraq."
"No one has full knowledge about why US claimed the drones which attacked Saudi oil pipelines were launched from Iraq, and everybody is waiting for the evidence."
Commenting on the US claims at his weekly presser in Baghdad on Tuesday, Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi said he had been briefed by Washington, but claimed Iraq’s own military intelligence officials could not verify the findings.
"Yes the Americans spoke [to us] as part of their perception, intelligence reports that these drones may have taken off from Iraq," Abdul-Mahdi told news hounds.
"However,
some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves...
all of our intelligence departments, meteorological departments, and air [force] command didn’t confirm this news," he added, demanding further evidence to substantiate the claims.
US Central Command was not able to comment on the matter.
According to the Wall Street Journal, which first reported the US claims on June 28, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has already warned Abdul-Mahdi not to allow Iraq to become a platform for launching attacks.
Iraqi President Barham Salih recently told CNN: "We do not want our territory to be a staging post for any hostile action against any of our neighbours, including Iran."
Rising tensions between the US and Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
in recent months risk dragging Iraq into a proxy war. Baghdad, which is an ally of both Washington and Tehran, fears the presence of powerful Iran-backed Shiite militias could undermine its desire to remain neutral.
These militias are already suspected of attacking US interests within Iraq. In early June, a rocket was fired at the Baghdad Green Zone, which houses the US embassy compound. Mortar shells and rockets also fell on the Balad and Taji military bases north of Baghdad, which host US and coalition technicians and advisors.
The Pentagon Q1 2019 report catalogued a series of incidents between the US-led coalition forces and Shiite forces in Anbar and Nineveh provinces.
"[A] PMF checkpoint forced a Coalition reconnaissance unit to turn around while traveling to support a meeting with an Iraqi official near the Sinjar Mountains in Ninewah," the report stated, although noting that the incidents haven't "significantly degraded security operations."
If Iran-backed militias in Iraq kill US personnel or succeed in opening up a new northern front against Iran’s Saudi rivals, Baghdad could find itself dragged into a new conflict, just as it emerges from a devastating war with the Isalmic State group (ISIS).
Saudi Arabia is locked in a proxy war with Iran in Yemen, a conflict which has become one of the world’s worst humanitarian catastrophes. Iran is accused of sending Houthi fighters heavy weaponry for use against the Saudi-led coalition and Saudi infrastructure, allegations Tehran denies. 
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