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Russia ready to assist Kurds and US on Raqa offensive
[Iraq Sun] Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday said Moscow was ready to coordinate with a Kurdish-Arab alliance and the US-led coalition in an assault on 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.... group's Syrian bastion of Raqa. "I say with all authority that we are ready for such co-ordination," Lavrov told journalists at a summit in Uzbekistan, quoted by TASS state news agency. He was speaking before Kurdish-Arab forces announced that the assault had been launched, saying: "I cannot say how realistic the reports are that such actions have already started." "Of course Raqa is one of the goals of the anti-terrorist coalition, just as is Iraq's djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... ," Lavrov said. "We are convinced it would have been possible to more effectively and quickly liberate these populated areas if our militaries [Russian and US] had started co-ordinating their actions much earlier," Lavrov said. Lavrov said that Russia and the US had agreed to co-ordinate military action in Syria in addition to exchanging information. Posted by: Fred 2016-05-26 |
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