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Pentagon chief: US troops, armored vehicles going to Syria oil fields
[IsraelTimes] Pentagon chief Mark Esper said Friday that the United States will leave more American troops and armored vehicles in eastern Syria to help prevent Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... The defense secretary confirmed that the US will send in an armored force to the region, but he did not provide details or the number of troops. His comments at a news conference at NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... headquarters in Brussels reflected one more change in what has been a rapidly shifting US stance on American forces in Syria. Just last week, President Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... insisted that all 1,000 American forces in Syria would leave the war-torn country. Then he acknowledged that a couple hundred would stay at the al Tanf garrison in the south. The US official who send the deployment probably would include tanks offered no more details. This official was not authorized to discuss internal discussions about military planning and spoke on condition of anonymity. He said the US wants to ensure that Islamic State Posted by: trailing wife 2019-10-26 |
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