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| Iraq PM to Urge Reconstruction Fund at Brussels Meet |
| 2014-12-03 |
| [AnNahar] Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi flew to Brussels on Tuesday to attend a meeting of the 60-state coalition against 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.... jihadist group and to call for funding, his office said. Abadi, who is also due to meet French President Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist... in Gay Paree on Wednesday, will brief his allies in the Belgian capital on latest developments on the ground. Abadi told politicians on Monday that he would also call on the international community to set up a special fund to help rebuild regions ravaged by the jihadist offensive. "It is not fair that Iraq should bear the cost of the war on its own," he said. "We were attacked by outside forces that entered from Syria and destroyed our country." "An important reason for my visit to Brussels is that 60 states are gathered there and we will ask them: 'Are you standing by Iraq and fighting terrorism?'," Abadi told parliament on Monday. "Fighting terrorism cannot happen without money, we need their help, at least to establish a fund for the reconstruction of areas that have been destroyed by terrorism." Thanks in part to a campaign of air strikes led by the United States -- but in which nations such as La Belle France, Britannia, Australia, Belgium and Denmark also play an active role -- the tide has begun to turn on jihadist expansion. The advance of IS fighters has stalled in Syria, while pro-government forces in Iraq have notched up a string of victories that have shrunk the jihadist footprint. The statement from Abadi's office said that during his meetings in Europe he would discuss "ways to expand international cooperation to respond to the threat of terrorism." Observers have argued that Iraqi forces would struggle to defeat IS fighters without the help of foreign ground troops but Abadi and his Western allies have so far ruled that out. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 Iraq PM to Urge FIFY. What do they think they are, Detroit? Mexico City? Illinois? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-12-03 12:40 |
| #1 Now we come to the important part: The Money. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2014-12-03 08:20 |