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| Iraq's anti-ISIS strategy 'bearing fruit': U.N. |
| 2014-11-20 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The new Iraqi governmentâs strategy of enlisting Kurds and local tribes in the fight against Islamists is yielding results, the U.N. envoy for Iraq told the Security Council on Tuesday. Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi has made it a priority to pay salaries, arm and train fighters from local tribes and communities and provide legal guarantees for volunteers, envoy Nickolay Mladenov said. âThis strategy is bearing fruit,â Mladenov told the 15-member council. âCommunities are beginning to push back.â The massacre by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militant group of 322 members of the Albu Nimr tribe spurred cooperation with the government in its campaign to defeat the militants, he said. Mladenov called on all militia groups who are not aligned with the Islamist militants to enter talks with Baghdad on resolving differences and joining the governmentâs anti-Islamist campaign. Also Tuesday, U.N. human rights chief Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein called for a campaign led by Muslims to undermine the ideology of ISIS, saying this may ultimately be more effective than air strikes. Because yap-yap is always more effective than boom-boom. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 The ISIS/ISIL repor may have enough weapons to fight on for another two years. * WORLD NEW > [Khaama Press] > UN: THE WORLD MUST ACT TO PREVENT ISIS FROM TAKING CONTROL OF PAKISTANI NUCLEAR WEAPONS. IIUC, the UN is fearful of an ISIS, PAK Taliban Alliance or merger, wid the new ISIS-TTP entity still allowed to engage in formal Govt-sharing in Islamabad - THE ISIS GOING POLITICALLY LEGIT IN NUCLEAR-ARMED PAKISTAN??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2014-11-20 22:19 |