[IsraelTimes] Joint statement says air-defense units can be swiftly returned to defend the NATO...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
member state if needed
The United States is withdrawing its Patriot missile system deployed near
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
's border with Syria when its mandate expires in October.
A joint Turkish and US announcement said Sunday that the air-defense units could be returned to Turkey within a week if the need arises. It said US navy ships would be present in the Mediterranean to support Turkey's defense.
The US, Germany and others deployed the batteries in 2013 to protect NATO ally Turkey after shells fired from Syria landed in the country.
The US decision comes a day after Germany said it would withdraw some 250 troops stationed in Turkey when the mandate for their air-defense mission ends next year. Germany said the main threat in the region came from 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 which doesn't possess missiles.