[Peace-discuss] How the US is Arming Both Sides of the Iraqi Conflict

[David Johnson via Peace-discuss]

    How the US is Arming Both Sides of the Iraqi Conflict

By Tyler Durden <http://www.globalresearch.ca/author/tyler-durden>
Global Research, June 13, 2014
Zero Hedge 
<http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-06-12/how-us-arming-both-sides-iraqi-conflict> 
12 June 2014
http://www.globalresearch.ca/how-the-us-is-arming-both-sides-of-the-iraqi-conflict/5386926
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/Recall a week ago we wrote "US Begins Delivering F-16s To Iraq This 
Week, A Decade After It Wiped Out Iraq's Air Force 
<http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-06-04/us-begins-delivering-f-16s-iraq-week-decade-after-it-wiped-out-its-air-force>" 
in which we said:/

    ... the US will deliver the first of 36 F-16 fighter jets to Iraq in
    what Baghdad's envoy to the United States called a "new chapter" in
    his country's ability to defend its vast borders with Iran and other
    neighbors. ....the US earlier in March provided Iraq with some 100
    Hellfire missiles as well as assault rifles and other ammunition.
    Then in April the US sent more arms, providing Iraq with 11 million
    rounds of ammunition and other supplies.

It is unknown how many of these have fallen into Al Qaeda/ISIS hands (we 
do know that at least one Iraqi Black Hawk chopper was captured during 
the rush for Mosul). What is known is that as PBS Frontline reported two 
weeks ago, while the administration has denied arming Syrian "rebels", 
i.e. the same ISIS militants that have crossed the border and are now 
fighting in Iraq...
<http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/2014/06/iraq_syria-isis-activity_al_qaeda.jpg>
... the reality is that it has. From: "Obama Says Not Arming Syrian 
Rebels, Syrian Rebels Say He Is 
<http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-05-28/someone-lying-obama-says-not-arming-syrian-rebels-yet-syrian-rebels-disagree>"

    ... the Syrian rebels themselves say they are already armed and
    trained by US in the use of sophisticated weapons and fighting
    techniques, including, one rebel said, "how to finish off soldiers
    still alive after an ambush." The interviews are the latest evidence
    that after more than three years of warfare, the United States has
    stepped up the provision of lethal aid to the rebels, as PBS notes
    "it appears the Obama administration is allowing select groups of
    rebels to receive US-made anti-tank missiles."  The commander of the
    unit also told Ali that their American contacts had asked him to
    bring 80 to 90 members of his unit to Ankara for training. One of
    the fighters said they received three weeks of training in how to
    conduct ambushes, conduct raids and use their weapons. They also
    said they received new uniforms and boots. "They trained us to
    ambush regime or enemy vehicles and cut off the road," said the
    fighter, who is identified only as "Hussein." "They also trained us
    on how to attack a vehicle, raid it, retrieve information or weapons
    and munitions, and how to finish off soldiers still alive after an
    ambush."

To summarize: the US was arming and training the same Al Qaeda/ISIS 
groups of Jihadists, that it concurrently gave Iraq weapons to fight. 
And since the Iraq army has so far proven utterly incapable of any 
resistance, it is now up to US drones to "fight" the same "rebels" that 
the US itself was collaborating with until a month or so ago.
The clear winner here? The US military-industrial complex, of course, as 
well as the banks who lend money to the governments to fight wars 
provoked by various "developed nation" spy agencies.
Collateral damage? Millions of innocent people on the ground in Syria 
and Iraq, and everywhere else too.
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