tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-141878910793686547.post5035843378266104175..comments2024-03-27T17:16:47.951+01:00Comments on UNDER MATTAN: Paul Craig Roberts: - Kriget är nära - förvänta er inget långt liv...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-141878910793686547.post-24932418777972702512014-08-09T18:40:04.330+02:002014-08-09T18:40:04.330+02:00Obama’s campaign in Iraq could require 15,000 troo...Obama’s campaign in Iraq could require 15,000 troops<br /><br />August 8, 2014<br /><br />Source: Army Times<br />President Obama says it all the time – no combat troops will return to Iraq.<br />But many experts believe it will be extremely hard to achieve Obama’s newly expanded military mission there without more Americans on the ground.<br />“I think the slippery slope analogy is the right one for Iraq right now,” said Barry Posen, director of the Security Studies program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.<br />On Thursday, Obama authorized a new open-ended operation in response to gains by the Islamic State militants in northern Iraq.<br />For now, the new mission relies on aircraft based outside Iraq. The U.S. will help defend the Kurdish city of Erbil from Islamic State fighters using “targeted air strikes,” Obama said. Those air strikes began Friday morning and included at least three separate bombings before noon, defense officials said.<br />The second mission is a commitment to protect some 40,000 Iraqi Yazidis who are trapped on a mountain surrounded by the militants. That began Thursday night with air drops of food and water for at least 8,000 people.[...]<br /><br />http://www.armytimes.com/article/20140808/NEWS08/308080084/Why-Obama-s-campaign-Iraq-could-require-15-000-troops<br /><br />http://www.blacklistednews.com/Obama%E2%80%99s_campaign_in_Iraq_could_require_15%2C000_troops/37157/0/38/38/Y/M.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-141878910793686547.post-79106380956292207252014-08-09T18:38:14.681+02:002014-08-09T18:38:14.681+02:00-NATO plane arrives in Ukraine with $4.5 mn worth ...-NATO plane arrives in Ukraine with $4.5 mn worth of military aid for Kiev troops-<br /><br /> August 09, 2014<br /><br />A massive Canadian transport plane has arrived in Kharkov carrying US$4.5 million worth of non-lethal military equipment to help Ukraine “protect its eastern border against Russian aggression.” [...]<br /><br />http://rt.com/news/179136-nato-plane-arrives-ukraine/<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-141878910793686547.post-20043509218610172052014-08-08T21:53:33.353+02:002014-08-08T21:53:33.353+02:00http://www.stripes.com/news/us-army-to-proceed-wit...http://www.stripes.com/news/us-army-to-proceed-with-planned-exercise-in-ukraine-1.272551<br /><br />http://rt.com/news/178584-us-navy-black-sea/<br /><br />http://whatreallyhappened.com/IMAGES/gunkill.jpg<br /><br />http://www.globalresearch.ca/mh17-brought-down-by-air-to-air-missile-finished-off-by-30-mm-cannon-experts-allege/5395127<br /><br />Missing MH370: CIA ‘Withholding Information About Flight Disappearance’<br />http://rinf.com/alt-news/war-terrorism/missing-mh370-cia-withholding-information-flight-disappearance/<br /><br />http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-08-07/it-begins-canada-send-military-equipment-ukraine<br /><br />http://traderdannorcini.blogspot.ca/2014/08/russian-food-ban-sends-livestock.html<br /><br />Russia will have plenty of (GMO free) food from their BRICS partners". <br /><br /><br />http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/gaza/11012640/Gaza-conflict-360-degree-panorama-of-flattened-town-of-Khuzaa-Gaza.html<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL9mP7d7eDc&feature=em-share_video_user<br /><br />http://news.antiwar.com/2014/08/06/us-announces-550-million-african-rapid-response-force-plans/ <br /><br />"No Name, No Time/Date of Death, No Location... Suspicious Timing--SSCI had just approved release of Torture Report"<br />http://1newsjunkie.blogspot.com/2014/08/still-no-answers-4-months-after-cia.html Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com