U.S. May Act Unilaterally vs Iran-Armed Iraq Militias

[tekisui]

Source: Reuters

(Reuters) - The United States will take unilateral action when needed to deal with the threat to American troops in Iraq from Shi'ite militias armed by Iran, U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said on Monday.

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Fourteen U.S. service members were killed in hostile incidents in June, the highest monthly toll in three years. At least three more have been killed in July, including one on Sunday, the day Panetta arrived in Baghdad.

"We are very concerned about Iran and the weapons they are providing to extremists here in Iraq," the former CIA director said in an address to U.S. troops in Baghdad.

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"Secondly, to do what we have to do unilaterally, to be able to go after those threats as well, and we're doing that," he said, referring to the right of U.S. forces to defend themselves on Iraqi soil.

more: http://in.reuters.com/article/2011/07/11/idINIndia-58200120110711

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Non-combat troops ready for combat and fresh saber-rattling towards Iran.

[jimmyflint]

1. O great another war.

The ever expanding war in the far east continues.

[Mojorabbit]

2. Something the hell is going on and I

am starting to really get worried about all these statements re Iran lately

[tekisui]

3. Very worrisome: Iran threatens to attack Iraq-based Kurdish rebels

Source: Reuters

(Reuters) - Iran threatened Monday to take military action against the Iraq-based Kurdish rebel group PJAK, saying the head of Iraq's Kurdistan region had handed the group land without telling the government in Baghdad.

A senior Iranian military official accused Masoud Barzani, the Kurdistan president, of "giving 300,000 hectares of land to the PJAK terrorist group without the knowledge of the central government in Baghdad," the semi-official Fars news agency said.

"Iran reserves its right to target and destroy terrorist bases in the border areas," he said. "This terrorist group carries out operations against the Iranian nation with the support of Iraq's Kurdish regional government."

Iranian media often report clashes in western Iran between security forces and Kurdish guerrillas...

more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/11/us-iran-iraq-pjak-idUSTRE76A4RY20110711

[tekisui]

4. AM kick

[piratefish08]

5. the fucking drone industry is going to go through the roof

jobs, jobs, jobs!

[tailor]

6. hy

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[tekisui]

7. Panetta confirms US troops are engaging in independent combat operations:

http://www.jordantimes.com/?news=39360

[Solly Mack]

8. k/r