Nitzan Battalion's observation units provide non-stop mobile reconnaissance for ground forces combing West Bank hills and wadis...
Peres, Lieberman tell American counterparts Obama, Kerry that recent chaos in Iraq allowed Kurds to create 'de facto' state... Tehran accuses West of making 'excessive demands' nd torpedoing chances of reaching a deal... Shin Bet suspects Amar Abu-Eisha and Marwan Kawasmeh from Hebron, who previously served time in Israeli prisons, played major role in kidnapping... Analysis: The security agency is hoping that Palestinians seeking better conditions for themselves will give up the two men, while Netanyahu is keen to show that perpetrators were indeed Hamas... As first US advisers reach Baghdad, Iranians and Saudis airlift weapons to opposing sides in IraqDEBKAfile Exclusive Report June 26, 2014, 10:51 AM (GMT+02:00) When the first of the 300 military advisers US President Barack Obama promised the Iraqi government arrived in Baghdad Wednesday, June 25, Iranian and Saudi Arabian arms shipments were already in full flow to opposing sides in embattled Iraq, debkafile’s military sources report. At least two cargo planes from bases in Iran were landing daily at Baghdad’s military airport, carrying 150 tons of military equipment. More than 1,000 tons were flown in this past week alone. Tehran has replicated for the Iraqi army the routine it established for Bashar Assad’s army, furnishing its needs on a daily basis as per its commanders’ requests. Those requests come before a joint Iranian-Iraqi headquarters set up at the Iraqi high command in Baghdad for approval and the assigning of priorities for shipment. At the same time, Saudi arms are flowing to the Iraqi Sunni tribes fighting alongside the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) against the Iraqi army and the Shiite Nouri al-Maliki's government. They are coming in both overland and by airlift. debkafile's military sources disclose that, on Tuesday June 24, unmarked civilian cargo planes landed at the base, bringing arms shipments from Saudi Arabia. The response was swift. Syrian warplanes, on their first bombing mission inside Iraq, tried to damage the partially repaired runways at H-2 to prevent any more Saudi air shipments from landing. That incident was a striking demonstration of the tight operational sync between the Iranian command centers in Damascus and Baghdad, which are attached respectively to the high commands of the Syrian and Iraqi armies. This coordination offers Tehran the flexibility for its command centers in both Arab capitals to send Iranian drones aloft from Syrian or Iraqi airbases to feed those centers with the intelligence they need for the strategic planning of military operations to be conducted by the Syrian and Iraqi armies. Iranian command centers in Baghdad and Damascus are fully equipped therefore to decide which Syrian, Iraqi or Hizballah force carries out a planned operation in either Syria or Iraq. Both are now pushing back against further ISIS advances towards its goal of a Sunni caliphate spanning both countries. This is just what US Secretary of State John Kerry meant when he said in Brussels Wednesday June 25, after two days of talks in Iraq, that "the war in Iraq is being widened." He had good reason to sound worried. Shortly before he spoke, the first group of US military personnel, out of the 300 that President Obama had promised, had arrived in Baghdad. But neither Tehran nor Riyadh had consulted Washington before they organized heavy arms shipments to their respective allies in Iraq. The Iraqi battle arena is become a veritable Babel of war. So far, seven countries are involved in varying degrees: the US, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Jordan, Syria and Saudi Arabia. NYT report claims Iran secretly sending military aid, 'small fleet' of drones to Baghdad to fight ISIS incursion... Government memo reveals extent of PA stipends to terrorists, claims that 'fungible' foreign aid contributing to funds... Op-ed: Instead of supporting women whose teenage sons were kidnapped in blatant violation of human rights, members of UN Human Rights Council attacked them with lies... US secretary of state urges regional actors to refrain from initating further military operations that might worsen ISIS crisis... |
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