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Pentagon expands funds to bomb Daesh, counter Russia
[Iran Press TV] The Pentagon has planned to double its military budget to battle the Daesh [Islamic State] Takfiri...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... terrorist group in 2017. US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter, making the announcement in Washington, DC on Tuesday, said, "Because we are accelerating the [anti-Daesh [Islamic State]] campaign, Department of Defense is backing that up and we need to back it up in our budget with a total of $7.5 billion in 2017, fifty percent more than in 2016." He added, "This will be critical as our updated coalition military campaign plan kicks in." Further reviewing the huge budget, Carter referred to drones and warplanes at the forefront of an 18-month-old coalition effort to allegedly fight ISIL in Iraq and Syria. "We've recently been hitting ISIL with so many GPS-guided smart bombs and laser-guided rockets that we're starting to run low on the ones we use against Lions of Islam the most," he said, "So we're investing $1.8 billion in 2017 to buy over 45,000 more of them." Posted by: Fred 2016-02-03 |
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