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2019-07-07 Iraq
Iraq denies arrival of new batch of U.S. soldiers at military base
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) ‐ An Iraqi operations command denied on Saturday news reports about the deployment of more U.S. soldiers at the Ein al-Assad base in Anbar province.

"All media reports about the arrival of a new batch of U.S. troops at the Ein al-Assad base are baseless and lack credibility," the Arabic-language Baghdad Today website quoted Brig. Gen. Yahya Rasool, front man for the Joint Operations Command, as saying.

Rasool further called on media outlets to take information only from reliable sources and not to depend on social networking websites.

Tensions have risen recently between Washington 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...
as the U.S. administration sent bombers and aircraft carriers to the Middle East to counter what it described as potential threats against U.S interests from Iran.

Tehran responded with warnings that it was ready to counter American threats.

The uneasy atmosphere prompted a number of Western countries to announce withdrawal of some of their military or civilian workers in Iraq.

Estimates put the number of U.S. troops at Ain al-Assad at 5000.
Posted by trailing wife 2019-07-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ]  Top
 File under: Govt of Iraq 

#1 Same batch, just different soldiers.
Posted by Skidmark 2019-07-07 20:28||   2019-07-07 20:28|| Front Page Top

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