Two U.S. officials Rvien: soldiers have lost their trust in the government in the events of Mosul and options ready for crisis

Wednesday, June 18, 2014 18:26


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Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff U.S. Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, said that "Iraqi soldiers in Mosul, while gunmen seized control of the city Daash threw their weapons to the government's failure to maintain security."

Gen. Dempsey during a hearing of the U.S. Senate on the situation in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Ukraine "there are two divisions and a part of the military band gave its members their weapons and some of them left the service and some intelligence reports indicated to us that the soldiers have lost their trust in the central government in maintaining security."

"We have strengthened security at the U.S. embassy in Baghdad and the protection of our nationals there and we have several options ready on Iraq we will post them in front of U.S. President in our meeting today."

The U.S. General, "there is little that he can do in Iraq, and the failure of the Iraqi government is behind the problem experienced by the country."

For his part, U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel said that "control Daash some Iraqi cities was possible but this is to Aaghei that we were not ready and I think we are amazed that the difference Iraqi military threw its arms and it became clear that all options and scenarios have become the table."

He Hegel "We knew that Daash pose a threat in Syria and in Iraq today, and we can not do anything is limited because of the lack of legal immunity for our soldiers in Iraq, and this is what we were asking for," pointing out that "former President Bush signed with the Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki agreement Stratejp and provided a lot for Iraq, but for us the possibility to dictate the results. "

The defense minister said the U.S. "We have in Iraq's interests and we are in this crisis did not lose anything, and the Iraqi government are lost and the withdrawal of our troops from Iraq, we have handed stance important for the Iraqi people as they wanted to govern themselves and the Iraqi government has not fulfilled its obligation in the formation of a national government that includes all components the Iraqi people and that we can not dictate to them and when we are not there we would not be there. "


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