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| Czech Republic to supply more rifles, ammunition for Peshmerga |
| 2016-01-26 |
| [Rudaw] The Czech Republic is sending thousands more assault rifles and millions of rounds of ammunition to the Kurdistan's Peshmerga forces, Czech media reports said. They quoted Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka saying at a meeting with top Czech officials on Monday that his country will be sending more military aid to the Iraqi army and Kurdish Peshmerga forces to battle 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.... (ISIS) group. Sobotka said "six and a half thousand assault rifles and more than seven million rounds of ammunition to support the Iraqi army and the Kurds in their struggle" against ISIS will be supplied through the United States. "This is about our support for the Iraqi army and the Kurds in the fight against so-called Islamic state," Sobotka explained. Jordan will also receive more military support from the Czech Republic, the prime minister said. "During last year's visit to Jordan, I promised more help in the fight against ISIL (ISIS), now it is time to fulfill the commitment," said Sobotka, who called Jordan a "stable partner" and an Island of "relative calm" in the Middle East. The Czech Republic has donated large numbers of machine guns, assault rifles, 5,000 hand grenades and 5,000 rounds of ammunition to the Iraqis and Kurds. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #4 Probably the latter. But it wouldn't have happened without the tacit approval or deliberate ignorance of the former. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2016-01-26 12:59 |
| #3 Your [Besoeker] Klingons, or a genuine Rick Blaine? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-01-26 06:36 |
| #2 The first shipment of two hundred rifles, forty MG-34 machine guns, and bullets, secretly landed during the night of 31 March–1 April at a makeshift airfield at Beit Daras in a chartered American Skymaster cargo plane. The above from g(r)om's memory hole. Underlining added. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-01-26 03:05 |
| #1 History repeats itself? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-01-26 02:59 |