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Washington plans to arm the tribes men in Iraq
According to a document from the US Department of Defense (Pentagon) intended to be submitted to Congress that the United States plans to buy weapons for men clans years in Iraq, including Kalashnikov assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades and ammunition rounds to help support them in their fight against the militants of the Islamic State in Anbar province.
And a plan to spend $ 24.1 million represents just a small part of the larger size of the request to spend $ 1.6 billion raise for Congress focuses on training and arming the Iraqi and Kurdish forces.
But the document highlighted the importance given by the Pentagon to tribesmen year within the overall strategy to eliminate the organization of the Islamic state and the document warned Congress of the consequences of failing to help these guys.
The document said the gallery talking about organizing Daash which Assouli on large areas of Iraq, Syria, and controls the land in Anbar, although the campaign by US-led against him three months ago, "The lack of arming tribal fighters will make the clans against the Islamic state is reluctant to address them effectively." .
A US official said the document filed to Congress last week.
The document said the US support was directed in coordination with the Iraqi government, and through it indicates that no weapons will be transported across Baghdad in line with the established policy.
The document said Iraqi security forces were "unwelcome especially in Anbar and other areas accounts for the majority of the year," and attributed this to the modest performance and combat the spread of sectarian divisions among the ranks.
And burden the Iraqi army, a legacy of sectarianism in Anbar, which feels its people and mostly Sunni resentment of the Shiite-dominated government led by former Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. And flamed these feelings when Maliki ordered his troops broke up a protest camp in Ramadi in December 2013.
And led a revolt of Sunni clans followed by the entry Daash fighters to Fallujah and Ramadi, where US forces faced a valiant resistance from Sunni insurgents, including members of al-Qaeda during the US occupation of Iraq after the invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003.
The United States hopes that published a limited number of military advisers in Anbar province that constitutes tribesmen year later part of the official of the Iraqi National Guard in the future.
She said the Pentagon document that details the amount of 1.24 billion will be spent on the Iraqi forces will be allocated in the amount of $ 354.8 million for the Kurdish forces.
The document said, "with a direction of the fighting on the battlefield promising element in eliminating the gains of the Islamic State of Iraq, but lacks the experience of training and equipment necessary for the deployment of troops to liberate the land
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According to a document from the US Department of Defense (Pentagon) intended to be submitted to Congress that the United States plans to buy weapons for men clans years in Iraq, including Kalashnikov assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades and ammunition rounds to help support them in their fight against the militants of the Islamic State in Anbar province.
And a plan to spend $ 24.1 million represents just a small part of the larger size of the request to spend $ 1.6 billion raise for Congress focuses on training and arming the Iraqi and Kurdish forces.
But the document highlighted the importance given by the Pentagon to tribesmen year within the overall strategy to eliminate the organization of the Islamic state and the document warned Congress of the consequences of failing to help these guys.
The document said the gallery talking about organizing Daash which Assouli on large areas of Iraq, Syria, and controls the land in Anbar, although the campaign by US-led against him three months ago, "The lack of arming tribal fighters will make the clans against the Islamic state is reluctant to address them effectively." .
A US official said the document filed to Congress last week.
The document said the US support was directed in coordination with the Iraqi government, and through it indicates that no weapons will be transported across Baghdad in line with the established policy.
The document said Iraqi security forces were "unwelcome especially in Anbar and other areas accounts for the majority of the year," and attributed this to the modest performance and combat the spread of sectarian divisions among the ranks.
And burden the Iraqi army, a legacy of sectarianism in Anbar, which feels its people and mostly Sunni resentment of the Shiite-dominated government led by former Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. And flamed these feelings when Maliki ordered his troops broke up a protest camp in Ramadi in December 2013.
And led a revolt of Sunni clans followed by the entry Daash fighters to Fallujah and Ramadi, where US forces faced a valiant resistance from Sunni insurgents, including members of al-Qaeda during the US occupation of Iraq after the invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003.
The United States hopes that published a limited number of military advisers in Anbar province that constitutes tribesmen year later part of the official of the Iraqi National Guard in the future.
She said the Pentagon document that details the amount of 1.24 billion will be spent on the Iraqi forces will be allocated in the amount of $ 354.8 million for the Kurdish forces.
The document said, "with a direction of the fighting on the battlefield promising element in eliminating the gains of the Islamic State of Iraq, but lacks the experience of training and equipment necessary for the deployment of troops to liberate the land
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