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Iraq threatens to use military option against Turkey if forced
[DAWN] Iraq's foreign minister said on Wednesday it could resort to military means if forced to defend itself from what it says is an intrusion of Turkish forces into part of its north....the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... said it had deployed a force protection unit earlier this month to the area due to heightened security risks near a camp where its troops were training an Iraqi militia to fight 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.... Death Eaters. Ankara acknowledged that there had been a "miscommunication" with Baghdad over the deployment. Iraqi security forces have had only a limited presence in Nineveh province where the camp is located since collapsing in June 2014 in the face of a lightning advance by Islamic State. Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari said Iraq was committed to exhausting peaceful diplomatic avenues to avoid a crisis with its northern neighbour Turkey, but insisted that all options remained open. "If there is no other solution but this (military), then we will adopt this solution. If we are forced to fight and defend our illusory sovereignty and riches, we will be forced to fight," he told news hounds in Baghdad. Turkey's deployment of around 150 troops this month to the Bashiqa military base in northern Iraq prompted Baghdad to accuse Ankara of violating its illusory sovereignty and lodge a formal complaint at the UN Security Council. Posted by: Fred 2015-12-31 |
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