bOLLy ENn - Presiden Amerika Syarikat, Barack Obama tlh mengumumkan 275 tentera Amerika Syarikat akan dikerahkan ke Iraq untuk menyediakan keselamatan untuk Kedutaan Amerika Syarikat di Baghdad sebagaimana pemberontak Sunni terus menguji pasukan keselamatan negara dalam usahanya lebih dekat dengan ibu negara.
"Kuasa ini akan menggerakkan untuk maksud melindungi rakyat Amerika Syarikat dan hartanah, jika perlu, dan dilengkapi untuk pertempuran," kata Obama dalam surat yg dihantar kepada House & pemimpin Senat. "Kuasa ini akan kekal di Iraq sehingga keadaan keselamatan menjadi seperti bahawa ianya tidak diperlukan lagi."
Setiausaha Akhbar White House ini berkata penggunaan anggota tentera Amerika Syarikat adalah "selaras dengan Kuasa Perang Resolusi."
"Anggota akan memberi bantuan kepada Jabatan Negeri itu berkaitan dgn penempatan semula sementara beberapa kakitangan dari Kedutaan Amerika Syarikat di Baghdad dengan Konsulat Besar Amerika Syarikat di Basra dan Erbil dan kepada Unit Sokongan Iraq di Amman," kata setiausaha akhbar di satu kenyataan ‘statement’.
"Anggota tentera Amerika Syarikat ini memasuki Iraq dengan persetujuan Kerajaan Iraq. Kedutaan Amerika Syarikat di Baghdad masih terbuka, dan majoriti besar kehadiran Kedutaan Amerika Syarikat di Iraq akan kekal di tempat dan kedutaan akan dilengkapi sepenuhnya untuk menjalankan misi keselamatan negara."
White House telah dilaporkan menjatuhkan apa2 idea menghantar tentera Amerika ke Iraq.
"Presiden adalah sangat jelas bahawa kami tidak akan menghantar tentera Amerika Syarikat kembali ke dalam pertempuran di Iraq," kata jurucakap ‘said’ White House Caitlin Hayden dalam satu kenyataan. "Kes itu dan beliau telah meminta pasukan keselamatan negara untuk menyediakan pelbagai pilihan lain yang boleh membantu menyokong pasukan keselamatan Iraq."
White House tidak mengulas sama ada pengumuman keselamatan kedutaan mewakili berehat mungkin dari dasar pentadbiran Obama terhadap tentera kombat masa depan di Iraq.
Sementara itu, pentadbiran Obama dikatakan mempertimbangkan menawarkan kon-tinjen kecil Amerika pasukan khas tentera ke Iraq, pegawai Amerika Syarikat berkata Isnin.
Pelan ini akan menggabungkan seramai 100 askar dalam bukan tempur, melatih peranan untuk membantu tentera Iraq terhadap pejuang Negara Islam Iraq dan Levant (ISIS atau ISIL) yang telah mendapat tanah di utara dan barat negara, 3 pegawai Amerika Syarikat memberitahu AP kepada keadaan tidak mahu namanya disiarkan.
Kuasa2 khas pelan dilaporkan tinggi dalam senarai pilihan Amerika Syarikat sedang mempertimbangkan dalam menawarkan kerajaan Syiah yang dipimpin di Iraq bantuan terhadap pemberontak Sunni sebagai ISIS menolak ke arah ibu negara.
Terdahulu Isnin, Setiausaha Negara Amerika Syarikat John Kerry berkata - sebagai tambahan kepada bantuan keselamatan ‘security assistance’ seperti peluru berpandu Hellfire dan pesawat pengawasan telah dibekalkan ke Iraq - Amerika Syarikat sedang mempertimbangkan menggunakan yang dikendalikan atau tanpa pemandu serangan udara Drone untuk melawan momentum pemberontak.
Ia masih belum jelas sama ada pasukan khas tentera di misi memberi nasihat dan "latihan bukan operasi" akan dihantar ke Baghdad atau di tempat lain lebih dekat ke bandar-bandar dan kawasan-kawasan di mana ISIS dan kumpulan militan lain telah menubuhkan kawalan dalam sebuah negara yang terasa bahang daripada bahagian dan keganasan yang berterusan.
Tentera akan berada di bawah kuasa duta Amerika Syarikat, seorang pegawai Amerika Syarikat berkata, dan bahawa mereka akan berada di sana untuk melatih pasukan keselamatan Iraq di pangkalan tentera.
Ia juga melaporkan ‘reported’ Isnin bahawa USS Mesa Verde, dengan 550 Marin di atas kapal, telah memasuki Teluk Parsi pada hari Isnin untuk operasi mungkin di Iraq.
Iraq telah meminta ‘requested’ penghantaran disegerakan senjata pesanan utama, termasuk puluhan jet pejuang F-16 menguncup dengan Lockheed Martin dan puluhan Apache helikopter Boeing, untuk menentang pejuang-pejuang pemberontak.
"Apa yg kami katakan ialah perlu ada rasa segera," Lukman faily, duta Iraq ke Amerika Syarikat, memberitahu The Wall Street Journal minggu lepas. "Kami kini menjangka Amerika Syarikat menghargai pengertian ini yang mendesak."
Satu cabang Al-Qaeda, ISIS, kumpulan hyper-fundamentalis aktif di Iraq dan Syria, jatuh dengan rangkaian pengganas global. Ia mendapat terkenal untuk taktik kejam, yang termasuk awam menyalibkan dan pemotongan kepala orang-orang yang melanggar tafsiran agama yang ketat.
Kebangkitan dan pengukuhan berhutang banyak kepada kekosongan kuasa serentak yang timbul selepas perang saudara di Syria meletus dan kekacauan yang berterusan di Iraq selepas pencerobohan Amerika Syarikat dan pekerjaan.
Menentang kerajaan Syiah Perdana Menteri Nouri al-Maliki di Baghdad dan Bashar Assad di Damsyik juga telah membolehkan organisasi Sunni untuk merekrut beribu-ribu orang di bawah matlamatnya untuk akhirnya menjadikan seluruh rantau ini menjadi khalifah Islam ultraconservative.
OBAMA Announces 275 troops to Deploy to IRAQ for Embassy SECURITY in BAGHDAD . . .
US President Barack Obama has announced 275 US troops will be deployed to Iraq to provide security for the US Embassy in Baghdad as Sunni insurgents continue to test the nation’s security forces in its push closer to the capital.
“This force is deploying for the purpose of protecting U.S. citizens and property, if necessary, and is equipped for combat,” Obama said in a letter sent to House and Senate leaders.“This force will remain in Iraq until the security situation becomes such that it is no longer needed.”
The White House press secretary said the deployment of the US Armed Forces personnel is “consistent with the War Powers Resolution.”
“The personnel will provide assistance to the Department of State in connection with the temporary relocation of some staff from the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad to the U.S. Consulates General in Basra and Erbil and to the Iraq Support Unit in Amman," the press secretary said in a statement. "These U.S. military personnel are entering Iraq with the consent of the Government of Iraq. The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad remains open, and a substantial majority of the U.S. Embassy presence in Iraq will remain in place and the embassy will be fully equipped to carry out its national security mission."
The White House had reportedly dropped any idea of sending US combat troops to Iraq.
"The president was very clear that we will not be sending U.S. troops back into combat in Iraq," White House spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said in a statement. "That remains the case and he has asked his national security team to prepare a range of other options that could help support Iraqi security forces."
The White House did not comment on whether the announcement of embassy security represents a possible break from the Obama administration’s policy against future combat troops in Iraq.
Meanwhile, the Obama administration is said to be considering offering a small contingent of American special forces soldiers to Iraq, US officials said Monday.
The plan would incorporate as many as 100 soldiers in a non-combat, training role to assist Iraqi forces against fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS or ISIL) that have gained ground in nation’s north and west, three US officials told AP on the condition of anonymity.
The special forces plan is reportedly high on the list of options the US is considering in offering the Shiite-led government in Iraq help against the Sunni insurgents as ISIS pushes toward the nation’s capital.
Earlier Monday, US Secretary of State John Kerry said that – in addition to security assistance like Hellfire missiles and surveillance drones already supplied to Iraq – the US is considering using manned or unmanned drone airstrikes to counter insurgent momentum.
It is yet clear whether the special forces soldiers on the advising and "non-operational training" mission would be sent to Baghdad or elsewhere closer to cities and areas where ISIS and other militant groups have established control in a nation reeling from continual violence and division.
The troops would be under the authority of the US ambassador, a US official said, and that they would be there to train Iraqi security forces on military bases.
It was also reported Monday that the USS Mesa Verde, with 550 Marines onboard, has entered the Persian Gulf on Monday for a possible operation in Iraq.
Iraq has requested the hastened delivery of major weapons orders, including dozens of F-16 fighter jets contracted with Lockheed Martin and dozens of Boeing’s Apache helicopters, to counter the insurgent fighters.
"What we are saying is that there needs to be a sense of urgency," Lukman Faily, Iraq's ambassador to the US, told The Wall Street Journal last week. "We now expect the US to appreciate this sense of urgency."
An offshoot of Al-Qaeda, ISIS, the hyper-fundamentalist group active in Iraq and Syria, fell out with the global terrorist network. It gained notoriety for its ruthless tactics, which include publicly crucifying and beheading those who violate their strict religious interpretations. Its rise and consolidation owe a great deal to the simultaneous power vacuum that arose after the Syrian civil war broke out and the ongoing tumult in Iraq after the US invasion and occupation.
Fighting against the Shia governments of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in Baghdad and Bashar Assad in Damascus has also allowed the Sunni organization to recruit thousands of people under its aim of eventually turning the entire region into an ultraconservative Muslim caliphate.
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