US delivers Hellfire missiles, ammunition to Iraq
Masked anti-government gunmen move with
their weapons as they patrol in Fallujah,
Iraq. (AP
Photo)
SAMEER N. YACOUB | AP
Published — Sunday 16 March 2014
BAGHDAD: The United
States delivered 100 Hellfire missiles, along with
assault rifles and ammunition to Iraq
as part of its anti-terrorism assistance to the country, the US embassy to Iraq
said on Sunday.
In a statement, it said the delivery was
made earlier this month in order to help bolster Iraq
forces fighting a breakaway Al-Qaeda group known as the Islamic State of Iraq
and the Levant.
“It is essential that Iraqi Security
Forces are equipped with modern and effective weaponry given the serious
threat... the ISIL now poses to Iraq
and the region,” said the statement, which also promised to send more weapons
to Iraq
in the coming weeks.
It added that since mid-January, Iraqi
security forces had received more than eleven million rounds of ammunition, as
well as thousands of machine guns, sniper rifles, assault rifles, and grenades.
The Iraqi warplanes frequently fire
Hellfire missiles at militant positions in the embattled western Anbar
province.
Since late December, Iraq’s western
cities have seen fierce clashes pitting government security forces and their
tribal Sunni militia allies against Al-Qaeda-linked militants and other
insurgent groups. The insurgents hold the city of Fallujah and parts of Anbar’s provincial
capital, Ramadi.
Meanwhile, two police officials said a
suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden car into a joint security patrol near
Ramadi Sunday afternoon, killing three policemen and two soldiers.
Both officers spoke on condition of
anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.
Iraq
Zalmay
Khalilzad was a U.S.
ambassador for Iraq,
and is a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank).
Note: Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Atlantic
Council of the United States
(think tank).
George Soros
is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations.
Barry
R. McCaffrey was a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank), and an advisory board member for the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq.
James
L. Jones Jr. is a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank), was the national security adviser for the Barack Obama administration, and the chairman for the Congressional Independent Commission on the Security Forces of Iraq.
Walter
B. Slocombe is a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank), a member of the Secretary of State's
International Security Advisory Board, and was the senior adviser
for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq.
David A. Kay
is a member of the Secretary of State's
International Security Advisory Board, and was a director at the Iraq Survey Group.
L. Paul
Bremer III was an administrator for the Coalition
Provisional Authority in Iraq, a managing director at the Kissinger Associates, Inc., and Henry A.
Kissinger’s special assistant.
Henry A. Kissinger
is the founder of Kissinger Associates, Inc.,
a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), interviewed in the
Nuclear Tipping Point, was a lifetime
trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank),
and a 2008 Bilderberg conference
participant (think tank).
Sam Nunn is
interviewed in the Nuclear Tipping Point,
a director at the Hess Corporation,
a co-chairman & CEO for the Nuclear Threat Initiative
(think tank), and was a director at the Chevron Corp.
Hess
Corporation are U.S. investors in Iraq.
Chevron
Corp. are U.S. investors in Iraq.
William
J. Perry is interviewed in the Nuclear Tipping Point,
a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative
(think tank), an honorary director at the Atlantic Council of the United
States (think tank), a member of
the Secretary of State's International Security
Advisory Board, and was a member of the Iraq Study
Group.
Rolf Ekeus
is a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative
(think tank), and was the chairman United
Nations Special Commission on Iraq.
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank)
was a funder for the Nuclear Threat Initiative
(think tank).
Jessica Tuchman Mathews
is a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative
(think tank), the president of the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank), a director at the
American Friends of Bilderberg
(think tank), was an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview
with Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into
the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for
population control by involving the United States in war)
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), the Brookings Institution (think tank), and the
Aspen Institute (think tank).
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to
Promote Open Society.
Vernon E. Jordan Jr. is an
honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution
(think tank), a senior counsel for Akin, Gump,
Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP, Valerie B. Jarrett’s great uncle, a
director at the American Friends of Bilderberg
(think tank), was a member of the Iraq Study Group,
and a 2008 Bilderberg conference
participant (think tank).
Lee H.
Hamilton is an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank),
and was a co-chair for the Iraq Study Group.
Akin,
Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP is the lobby firm for Chevron USA, Inc., the Hess Corporation,
and KKR & Co. LP.
Chevron
USA, Inc. is a subsidiary of the Chevron Corp.
Chevron
Corp. are U.S. investors in Iraq.
Hess
Corporation are U.S. investors in Iraq.
Sam Nunn was
a director at the Chevron Corp., is
a director at the Hess Corporation,
interviewed in the Nuclear Tipping Point,
and a co-chairman & CEO for the Nuclear Threat Initiative
(think tank).
William
J. Perry is interviewed in the Nuclear Tipping Point,
a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative
(think tank), an honorary director at the Atlantic Council of the United
States (think tank), a member of
the Secretary of State's International Security
Advisory Board, and was a member of the Iraq Study
Group.
Rolf Ekeus
is a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative
(think tank), and was the chairman United
Nations Special Commission on Iraq.
Cyrus
F. Freidheim Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Valerie
B. Jarrett is Vernon E. Jordan Jr’s great niece, the senior adviser for the Barack Obama administration, and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Lester Crown
is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago,
was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute
(think tank), and a director at the General
Dynamics Corporation.
James S.
Crown is a trustee at the Aspen Institute
(think tank), a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and a director at the General
Dynamics Corporation.
John M. Keane
is a director at the General Dynamics
Corporation, a friend of David H. Petraeus,
was a general; chief of staff for the U.S. Army, and
a senior adviser at KKR & Co. LP.
David
H. Petraeus is a friend of John M. Keane, the
KKR Global Institute chairman for KKR & Co. LP,
was the U.S. Army American commander in Iraq,
and the commanding general for the Multi-National Force for
Iraq.
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