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Iraq
Iraqi Source Claims Putin Offered Iraq's Al-Maliki Military Aid
2014-06-22
[Ynet] Political sources in Iraq have claimed that Russian President Valdimir Putin spoke Friday with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki
... Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party. Maliki imposed order on Basra wen the Shiites were going nuts, but has proven incapable of dealing with al-Qaeda's Sunni insurgency. Reelected to his third term in 2014...
, and promised him Russia would send Badhdad an emergency shipment of military aid to assist the government in its fight against the Islamist insurgency led by the ISIS.

"The shipment is expected to arrive in upcoming days and will include military helicopters, armed-personnel carriers, munitions and light and heavy arms," the source was quoted as saying by the anti-Hezbollah Lebanese paper Al-Mustaqbal
... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri...
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Posted by:trailing wife

#9  Iff true, AFAIC it'll the Bammer once again being a good OWG Globalist + SSSSSHHHHHH .... PCCCCCCCC helping not One but Two OWG Co-Superpowers expand their MilPol or Geopol spheres.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2014-06-22 22:45  

#8  It would be changed Dale, slightly, the Washington Reds.
Posted by: Shipman   2014-06-22 18:00  

#7  The only thing that would upset O is if Putin purchased the Washington Redskins and kept the name the same.
Posted by: Dale   2014-06-22 13:56  

#6  Oh yeah, and Russian troops on the boarder of Saudi Arabia.
Posted by: Squinty   2014-06-22 11:55  

#5  Russia would love to have Iraq as a client state. Putin would view it as a takeaway from Obama further humiliating him.
Posted by: Squinty   2014-06-22 11:50  

#4  Also helps stick it in the eye of Obummer. As Victor Davis Hanson says "annoying Obama is why Putin gets up in the morning."
Posted by: frozen al   2014-06-22 11:38  

#3  Russia has had continues to have its own Sunni problem in the Caucasus and Dagestan. Thus, the support for Shiite Iran and Al-Maliki.
Posted by: Muggsy White8658   2014-06-22 08:46  

#2  I'm sure it's true someone said so, g(r)omgoru.
Posted by: trailing wife   2014-06-22 07:18  

#1  Interesting, if true.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2014-06-22 06:30  

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