[Iraq Sun] Four teams of US special operations forces have arrived in Iraq to aid the Iraqi government in combating the raging battle with the rapidly advancing jihadist forces of Evil as US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a
lucky hat,conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
urged the autonomous Kurds not to quit the political process in Storied Baghdad.
Around 90 members of the US special forces, part of the 300 military advisors, are already in Iraq and could begin their assessment work this week. Four more teams are expected to arrive in the violence-ravaged country soon.
On Monday, the US and Iraq reached a key agreement on legal protections that would enable up to 300 special operations forces to be deployed in the country.
Kerry arrived in the Kurdish regional capital Erbil Tuesday and went into a meeting with Kurdistan autonomous region President
Massoud Barzani... hereditary head of the Kurdish Democratic Party, maybe a little too close to the Medes and the Persians for most people's tastes...
to urge the Kurds who are keen to establish their separate state, to help in the political process.
Ahead of going to Erbil, Kerry had a meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, and Shiite and Sunni politicians.
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Another 50 US special operations forces have arrived in Storied Baghdad under the newly appointed command of a two-star general as the US military steadily ramps up an advisory mission aimed at helping Iraq battle back Sunni murderous Moslems, the Pentagon said on Thursday.
The Pentagon said the first of two planned Joint Operations Centers in Iraq had also become activated, bolstering its ability to oversee US teams and gather information about the situation on the ground, including about Iraq's security forces.
"It will of course serve as a fusion center where information that's coming in from the various teams can be consolidated and it can be analyzed," said Colonel Steve Warren, a Pentagon front man.