Dempsey Explains Why US Didn’t Stop Islamic State Massacre of Tribe That Fought Back -- Washington Free Beacon
Gen. Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the coalition fighting the Islamic State in Iraq did not prevent the massacre of 400 people from the Albu Nimr tribe in Iraq’s al Anbar province because the U.S. did not have adequate ground intelligence to be made aware of the impending massacre.
“The Iraqi Security Forces in al Anbar province are in defensive positions and would be unlikely to be able to respond to a request for assistance from the Albu Nimr tribe,” Dempsey said. “We could, with our airpower, if we had the proper ISR (intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance) at the point when it was requested.”
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My Comment: His excuse is that there was not enough intelligence on the ground?!?!?!? We are now learning that these Iraqi allies were actually pleading for U.S. help .... Iraqi tribal leaders' pleas for help ignored before massacre(Reuters) .... sighhhh .... I guess that "intelligence" was not good enough.
The Massacre hurts.
ReplyDeleteIf there are people that the U.S. can (or should I use the past tense and write "could") trust in the Middle East it would be the Kurds and tribes like the Albu Nimr.
No one took the 3 AM phone call.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/eye-on-2008/hrcs-new-ad.html
"No one took the 3:00 AM phone call". Aizino .... you summed it up perfectly with just that one sentence.
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