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Iraq
US could launch drone strikes in Iraq: Kerry
2014-06-17
[Iran Press TV] US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
says drone strikes "may well be" an option to help stop the al-Qaeda-linked murderous Moslems' advance towards the Iraqi capital Storied Baghdad.

In an interview with Yahoo! News on Monday, Kerry called the gunnies from the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original...
(ISIL) "an existential challenge" to Iraq and a threat to the stability of the entire Middle East region.

He said President Barack Obama
Because I won...
was considering "every option that is available," including drone strikes, adding that "we are deeply committed to the integrity of Iraq as a country."

"They're not the whole answer, but they may well be one of the options that are important," Kerry said. "When you have people murdering, assassinating in these mass massacres, you have to stop that. And you do what you need to do if you need to try to stop it from the air or otherwise."

The ISIL gunnies have taken control of some key northern Iraqi cities including djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, the country's second-largest city, and Tikrit, the birthplace of former Baathist dictator Saddam Hussein.

The murderous Moslems, who have posted pictures of their atrocious acts against Iraqis online, have vowed to continue their offensive towards the capital Storied Baghdad but Iraqi armed forces have advanced toward their strongholds.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki
... Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party. Maliki imposed order on Basra wen the Shiites were going nuts, but has proven incapable of dealing with al-Qaeda's Sunni insurgency. Reelected to his third term in 2014...
has warned that the gunnies have nowhere to hide.
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