As Iraq Violence Grows, U.S. Sends More Intelligence Officers -- Reuters
(Reuters) - The United States is quietly expanding the number of intelligence officers in Iraq and holding urgent meetings in Washington and Baghdad to find ways to counter growing violence by Islamic militants, U.S. government sources said.
A high-level Pentagon team is now in Iraq to assess possible assistance for Iraqi forces in their fight against radical jihadists from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a group reconstituted from an earlier incarnation of al Qaeda, said two current government officials and one former U.S. official familiar with the matter.
The powerful ISIL, which seeks to impose strict sharia law in the Sunni majority populated regions of Iraq, now boasts territorial influence stretching from Iraq's western Anbar province to northern Syria, operating in some areas close to Baghdad, say U.S. officials.
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My Comment: I sincerely doubt that sending a few U.S. intelligence officers into Iraq is going to change the security situation on the ground. This is all wishful thinking. In the meantime .... Iraq braces for more election violence.
Update: The above video is from a suicide attack on Friday.
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Condolences to the iraqi people. First the usa screws up in their nation, murdering 2 million iraqis for nothing, not being able to eliminate the terrorist even after years and years of fighting.
And stupid iraqi backward goverment lets the usa to steal their oil. And ruin ther economy.
And now the ISIL is disrupting daily life of iraqis. Think for how long theyv been suffering.
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