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Turkey sends non-lethal aid to Baghdad
[Hurriyet Daily News] Two cargo planes carrying Turkish military aid to Iraqi soldiers arrived in Baghdad on March 3, a Turkish official told the Hurriyet Daily News, stressing that the assistance includes non-lethal military equipment aid for 500 soldiers of the central government.The military aid includes camouflage desert caps, assault vests, helmets, sleeping bags, blankets for 500 soldiers, and 50 cold weather tents, according to the official. ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... will continue to provide non-lethal equipment if needed, said the official. Two C-130 military planes landed at a military air base 20 kilometers east of the Iraqi capital, Anadolu Agency reported. Turkish Ambassador to Baghdad Faruk Kaymakci has reportedly delivered the aid to Iraqi Defense Ministry authorities. "Turkey will continue to stand by its allies of the Iraqi government and people both as part of the anti-DAESH coalition, with respect to their bilateral relations, in order to provide the support it can lend for Iraq's unity, integrity, stability, security and welfare," read a statement issued by the Turkish Embassy in Baghdad, using the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Iraq has been under threat from ISIL, which overtook djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... last June and has captured large swathes of northern Iraq and Syria, sending Iraqi security forces and soldiers fleeing. Posted by: Fred 2015-03-04 |
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