U.S. Calls for International Coalition to 'Destroy' IS
The United States on Friday called for the creation of a broad international coalition against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria by the time of the U.N. General Assembly this month.
"There is no time to waste in building a broad international coalition to degrade and, ultimately, to destroy the threat posed by ISIL," Secretary of State John Kerry and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said in a joint statement.
Britain and the United States chaired talks with defense and foreign ministers from eight other allies: Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Turkey.
The statement said the formation of a new Iraqi government would be critical and added the U.S. was hopeful this could happen "over the coming days."
"We discussed in detail how NATO allies can extend immediate support to a new government," it said.
It listed some of the measures as offering military support to the Iraqi government; stopping the flow of foreign jihadist fighters; taking action against IS funding; addressing the humanitarian crisis; and "de-legitimizing" IS ideology.
"We will form a multinational task force to share more information about the flow of foreign fighters," it said, after an extremist speaking with a British accent was shown beheading two U.S. kidnapped journalists and threatening a British hostage.
In a transcript released by U.S. officials of Kerry's comments at the meeting, the diplomat said: "We must be able to have a plan together by the time we come to UNGA (U.N. General Assembly)" later this month."
"They're not as organized as everybody thinks," he said, referring to IS. "And we have the technology, we have the know-how. What we need is obviously the willpower to make certain that we are steady and stay at this."
"We need to attack them in ways that prevent them from taking over territory, that bolster the Iraqi security forces, others in the region who are prepared to take them on, without committing troops of our own," he said.
05 September 2014, 16:26
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Any such coalition if not accompanied by a serious political initiative to eliminate the assad regime, establishing an equitable power sharing government in Iraq, eliminating Iran's interference in Yemen and Bahrain, and clipping HA wings will not only fail but in the long run strengthen ISIL.
05 September 2014, 18:50
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how is assad doing so, by bombarding joubar hysterically every day
or by buying petrol from them for two years bc the barrel cost 25$
after all, he needs electricity no? even he was willing to sell us some, how very kind of him
by letting them control areas twice the size of Lebanon for almost two years letting tehm roam freely and undertake tourist trips from raqaa to anabar (u even commented on this article several times as usual so dont pretend its not true)
when he thought teh time was right, he came out of his closet to tell the world that he will end the same shit he helped create
where opposition leaders, journalist and even chess players are imprisoned whereas abou loukman (isisi no 2 guy) and 500 true nationalists were released from saydnaya prison in 2011
05 September 2014, 18:50
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maliki did the smae in iraq, a very powerful army composed of his militia which cost 40 billion dollars to establish since 2003 was asked to retreat leaving weaponry behind.
if him and his politics were so good, why did everyone in Iraq agree to let him go including Shiites and iranian leaders? although like assad he said he is the savior who like assad wants others to do shitty work for him and then he gets the spoils
05 September 2014, 18:50
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how is assad doing so, by bombarding joubar hysterically every day
or by buying petrol from them for two years bc the barrel cost 25$
after all, he needs electricity no? even he was willing to sell us some, how very kind of him
by letting them control areas twice the size of Lebanon for almost two years letting tehm roam freely and undertake tourist trips from raqaa to anabar (u even commented on this article several times as usual so dont pretend its not true)
when he thought teh time was right, he came out of his closet to tell the world that he will end the same shit he helped create
where opposition leaders, journalist and even chess players are imprisoned whereas abou loukman (isisi no 2 guy) and 500 true nationalists were released from saydnaya prison in 2011
05 September 2014, 16:49
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destroy also their funders and all who sympathize with these terrorists
05 September 2014, 16:50
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flamethrower my brother wants to use some of your comments in his political science class at university. I hope you will sanction his request
05 September 2014, 16:51
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Guys just get H. G. Wells Time Machine go back in time and force Bashar Assad and Nour El-Malki not to release the ISIL terrorists from their jails.
05 September 2014, 17:27
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this call is tantamount to declaring a war against the saudi islamic system (wahabism)
05 September 2014, 17:43
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I bet 100$ that IS will overrun and take over Lebanon in 48 hours. Anybody at m14 disagree?
05 September 2014, 19:03
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Dude, if it doesn't happen then it's 100$ well f*ckin spent! :)
05 September 2014, 19:19
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The leader of the Somali Islamist group al-Shabab, Ahmed Abdi Godane, was killed following a US attack earlier this week, the Pentagon has said.
