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Washington continues to air sorties in the skies of Baghdad
On: Tuesday 02/07/2012 10:43
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revealed a senior military source in the Air Force, the U.S. Air above the sky of Iraq is limited to providing protection to the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.
This comes at a time was considered a senior adviser in the government flights, the U.S. over Iraqi airspace normal, stressing the need for Iraq with the lack of techniques in securing the high skies.
U.S. President Barack Obama has admitted last week with U.S. aircraft without a pilot in Iraq, but he played it by saying that the program is very limited.
He added, "I think there is this belief that we draw a bunch of strikes automatically ... it is important that everyone is aware that this being in a very limited scale. "
, the military source said a senior Air Force "that the rumors about flights American aircraft remote control, exaggerated, Aftyranha always be above the U.S. Embassy to protect her," while denying " that there is coordination between the Iraqi Ministry of Defense and U.S. forces in this regard. "
The source, who preferred anonymity in a telephone conversation with the (long) "that the relationship between the two countries is through the gate of diplomacy, and we have no link to the topic, there may be prior coordination between the the Iraqi government and U.S. Embassy to protect the latter by piloted aircraft. "
and the existence of owning the U.S. Embassy planes in Iraq, the source is "There are helicopters owned by the U.S. consulates in Baghdad, Tikrit, Kirkuk and other areas, but the character of a civilian, a move coordinated with the government".
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