via ABC News...
It won't be like Saigon and helicopters on the roof....no, this will be a slow motion, hope the news media doesn't catch on to the fact that its going on and leaving a skeleton crew in place to allow the fiction of activities going on as normal to carry the day.
I've looked a bit and I can't find the info on the units involved.
That makes me especially curious. If they're FAST Company Marines and the Red Horse guys from the USAF then I'd be more certain. Time will tell though.
Sidenote: Moving personnel to Irbil and Basra has me stumped though. It makes no sense. Yes, they're supposedly in "safe" areas but in a situation like this you're going to disperse your personnel? I guess the State Dept has bought into the Distributed Operations concept too.
The U.S. is sending another 300 troops to Iraq to beef up security at the U.S. Embassy and elsewhere in the Baghdad area to protect U.S. citizens and property, officials said Monday.Sounds to me like they're preparing to evacuate.
That raises the total U.S. troop presence in Iraq to approximately 750, the Pentagon said.
The State Department, meanwhile, announced that it was temporarily moving an unspecified "small number" of embassy staff in Baghdad to U.S. consulates in the northern city of Irbil and the southern city of Basra. This is in addition to some embassy staff moved out of Baghdad earlier this month,
Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the Baghdad embassy "will be fully equipped to carry out" its mission.
The White House announced that President Barack Obama had directed that 200 troops be sent to reinforce security at the embassy, its support facilities and Baghdad International Airport.
The Pentagon said the 200 arrived Sunday and Monday.
It won't be like Saigon and helicopters on the roof....no, this will be a slow motion, hope the news media doesn't catch on to the fact that its going on and leaving a skeleton crew in place to allow the fiction of activities going on as normal to carry the day.
I've looked a bit and I can't find the info on the units involved.
That makes me especially curious. If they're FAST Company Marines and the Red Horse guys from the USAF then I'd be more certain. Time will tell though.
Sidenote: Moving personnel to Irbil and Basra has me stumped though. It makes no sense. Yes, they're supposedly in "safe" areas but in a situation like this you're going to disperse your personnel? I guess the State Dept has bought into the Distributed Operations concept too.
"Moving to Irbil and Basra." Hmmm, I wonder if they are already seeing a battle of Baghdad coming and a de facto split into Kurdish (out of Irbil) and Shia (Basra) autonomous states?
ReplyDeletei originally thought that but those personally will get caught up in fighting and why would you do something that goes against US stated policy of Iraq remaining whole?
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