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US Defense Secretary: we will consider the request to send ground troops to Iraq
Sunday, 16 November 2014 08: 26
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Twilight News said the u.s. Defense Secretary, Chuck Hegel, it may consider a request to send u.s. ground forces to Iraq to help identify ground targets planned by international coalition planes targeted and if the Commander of the US Joint Chiefs of staff to make a recommendation.
The US Army Commander, General Martin Dempsey, had on two previous occasions, he was forced to make a similar proposal at some point, with its emphasis on it by then.
Dempsey arrived to Iraq on Saturday to see the military needs on the ground in the country and assess the situation, noting that nearly 3,000 US troops deployed in Iraq currently under advisory and training missions.
Speaking after a Conference on the Heigl strategies of national security at the library of former President, Ronald Reagan, California, saying that "we will deal with that recommendation, but not yet."
Heigl declined to confirm whether us airstrikes against what is known as a "network of Khorasan" has led to the deaths of its leaders, but stressed that the network still posed a "serious threat" to the United States, saying: "we know they are planning to attack our interests, especially in Europe, so we continue to be targeted."
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Sunday, 16 November 2014 08: 26
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Twilight News said the u.s. Defense Secretary, Chuck Hegel, it may consider a request to send u.s. ground forces to Iraq to help identify ground targets planned by international coalition planes targeted and if the Commander of the US Joint Chiefs of staff to make a recommendation.
The US Army Commander, General Martin Dempsey, had on two previous occasions, he was forced to make a similar proposal at some point, with its emphasis on it by then.
Dempsey arrived to Iraq on Saturday to see the military needs on the ground in the country and assess the situation, noting that nearly 3,000 US troops deployed in Iraq currently under advisory and training missions.
Speaking after a Conference on the Heigl strategies of national security at the library of former President, Ronald Reagan, California, saying that "we will deal with that recommendation, but not yet."
Heigl declined to confirm whether us airstrikes against what is known as a "network of Khorasan" has led to the deaths of its leaders, but stressed that the network still posed a "serious threat" to the United States, saying: "we know they are planning to attack our interests, especially in Europe, so we continue to be targeted."
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