ABC News: Top US Military Official Repeatedly Warned Iraq About Troops’ Conduct
America’s top military official, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey, repeatedly warned Iraqi leaders about the conduct of both the Iraqi military and the militias that fight alongside them, a senior U.S. official told ABC News.
The Iraqi government says it has launched an investigation into alleged atrocities committed by Iraqi troops and Shia militias, some captured in a trove of images and footage found online, as revealed in an ABC News investigation Wednesday. Today State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki said the images amounted to “disturbing and serious allegations.”
WNU Editor: If the Iraqi Army is behaving this way .... one can only imagine how the Shiite militias are behaving. I must also wonder if U.S. advisers (or any other Western adviser) were present when this was happening.
More News On Iraq's Army Being Implicated In Committing War Crimes
'Dirty Brigades': US-Trained Iraqi Forces Investigated for War Crimes -- ABC News
US-Backed Iraqi Forces Face War Crimes Investigation After ABC Finds Gruesome Online Posts -- IBTimes
US-Trained Iraqi Forces Under Investigation for War Crime -- Sputnik
US-trained Iraqi units facing investigation over alleged ISIS-like atrocities -- FOX News
Reported atrocities by Iraqi forces could risk aid under U.S. law -- Reuters
Did American-Trained Iraqi Troops Commit War Crimes? -- Lucy Westcott, Newsweek
1 comment:
You can't expect 1 few trainers embedded among dozens or hundreds of Iraqi troops to whip out their pistols and tell the transgressing IA that they are all under arrest.
The most they can do is document and to get pulled put.
The cowardice in this is at the political level.
Some who is a peerless social justice warrior like Herr Obama should address the nation and call it like it is. Or he should speak bluntly to the Iraqi Prime minister.
Now it look like the onus is on the embedded American trainers. That is they are bad because they did nothing.
They do not want to stop committing atrocities, we can withdraw support and see how badly they get mauled trying to retake cities like Tikrit.
But withdrawing support might be like an embargo and be considered an act of war.
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