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day after Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki that the war with terrorism, which is represented by al-Qaeda is open, the Iraqi government announced its need for U.S. assistance in the field of «surveys and analysis of intelligence» including the demand from Washington interference drones ( درون), to curb the threat of «base».
said Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said in a press statement that «the aircraft of U.S. combat drones, it is possible to allocate its bases in Iraq to help in the face of threats (base) growing in the country». And Zebari said that «the Iraqi forces need to help the U.S. in the field of survey and analysis of intelligence», and continued: «also suggest the possibility of hosting a number of consultants and experts Americans in the fight against terrorism in Iraq to help the army to deter the recent escalation made in deadly attacks». And on the identification of the type of assistance that can be provided by the United States to Iraq, said Zebari said in remarks in Washington, that «combat aircraft without a pilot, may be part of the American effort to prop up Iraq».
's comments come Zebari following the developments at the level of the U.S. position of al-Qaeda, including the allocation of $ 10 million reward for information about al-Qaeda leader and the Emir of the Islamic State of Iraq, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi after a series of threats received by the U.S. embassies in the region, prompting Washington to close some of them in a lot of capitals, including Baghdad, for a period of time. Zebari's comments come a day after a televised speech to the Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki announced that the process called «Thar martyrs» in Baghdad belt areas and access to the area of the island on the Iraqi border - and inhabited by the Syrian Sunni majority will remain open. Maliki said that «terrorism insist on disrupting oil wealth and the financial impact on our budget, but we will continue Bhrbena against terrorism». Maliki stressed that we are «closer to the phase of serious ignite sectarian strife must protect our people that we have a courageous stand». For his part, member of the Iraqi parliament from the Iraqi List and a member of the Commission on Security and Defense parliamentary Hamid al-Mutlaq told «Middle East» that « Everyone knows that the United States is that opened the Iraqi border against terrorism after the brutal occupation of the country in 2003. The «Today, we find that the United States wants to support Iraq in such military equipment developed that have not granted to Iraq in the past, although it is responsible for completely destroyed and continues its destructive existed and continues not only in Iraq but in the entire region to protect the security of Israel». explained Mutlaq that «the agreement signed by the Iraqi government with the Americans and called the Strategic Framework Agreement allows it to intervene in too many things under the doors and various pretexts, including what you want to send equipment to fight the (base). And on what is happening at the regions belt Baghdad Mutlaq said that «the fight against Al-Qaeda will not be this way revenge that takes place in a lot of areas that are of a component known note that the people of these areas are the ones who fought the (base) and spent them in their areas, but the government did not move nothing about the people who stood with her days ordeal was remuneration more arrests and marginalization and exclusion. Iraq had signed an agreement with Washington to buy 36 fighter aircraft «F - 16». The Iraqi government announced in September 2011 the payment of the first installment of the value of the deal price to buy 18 fighter of this kind, as confirmed by the Ministry of Defense, in the month of July 2012 at the desire of the Iraqi government to increase the number of these aircraft in the « the near future to protect the country's airspace. The United States is the main source of arming the Iraqi armed forces, despite the quest for Russian and other weapons from Eastern Uriah States between now and then. Middle East
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