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| United Arab Emirates Backs World Fight on IS |
| 2014-09-04 |
| [An Nahar] The United Arab Emirates voiced readiness Wednesday to back world efforts to confront the threat from jihadists, amid calls by Western powers for an international fight against the Islamic State. The UAE affirms "its solidarity with regional and international efforts against terrorist threats... and its readiness to take needed measures to confront this phenomenon in line with U.N. Security Council Resolution 2170," its foreign ministry said. The resolution, passed last month, seeks to cut funds and the flow of imported muscle both to the Islamic State, which has seized swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq, and to al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, al-Nusra Front. The UAE said it "stands against terrorist threats facing our region and the world, especially with the dangerous human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... violations by terrorist groups in Iraq, Syria and other Arab and Moslem countries such as Yemen, Somalia, Libya, and Afghanistan suffering from... movements such as IS, al-Nusra, and al-Qaeda." Last month, Washington confirmed reports that UAE warplanes had twice bombed Islamist militias in Libya. Abu Dhabi "strongly condemns the continuing terrorist and criminal acts by bully boy groups, especially the so-called IS... that undermine regional and international stability," said the statement carried by the official WAM news agency. U.S. President Barack Obama I've now been in 57 states -- I think one left to go... called Wednesday for an international front against jihadists in Iraq and Syria after they beheaded a second American news hound Steven Sotloff. Britannia and La Belle France meanwhile weighed military action. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Some free jet fuel would be nice. |
| Posted by: Galactic Coordinator Jinemble5612 2014-09-04 22:16 |