{"id":54549,"date":"2014-08-14T07:00:49","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T11:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=54549"},"modified":"2014-08-13T19:09:59","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T23:09:59","slug":"boots-on-the-ground-on-mount-sinjar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54549","title":{"rendered":"Boots on the ground on Mount Sinjar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pinto Nag sends us a link to an MSN article<\/a> which reports that couple of US troops have already been on Mount Sinjar where all of those refugees are hiding out from ISIS\/ISIL\/Islamic State. It looks like they flew in under the cover of night and then safely back to Kurd Land. I doubt that they’ll be able to get away with that again now that it’s been broadcast to the world.<\/p>\n

“They were there last night and they did an assessment,” said the official, saying this occurred early on Wednesday in Iraq.<\/p>\n

A second U.S. official said fewer than 20 personnel were involved in the assessment of the situation and all had returned safely to the Kurdistan capital of Arbil by military air.<\/p>\n

The United States has not ruled out using ground forces in an operation to extract thousands of desperate civilians trapped on the mountain by Islamist militants, but they will not engage in combat, a senior White House official said earlier.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I deal with a terrorist on a daily basis and I know that if I sneaked in somewhere and back out and then made it public knowledge, my personal terrorist would make a big deal about it and plug that particular hole in his defenses. I suspect that will be the case here, too. <\/p>\n

I don’t know why this administration has to broadcast everything that the troops do – especially when that will only put troops in jeopardy. They can’t give us insight into the grand plan, but they like to brag about the things that the troops get away with – once.<\/p>\n

Putting one and one together<\/a>; <\/p>\n

The Pentagon has positioned MV-22 Osprey troop transports in northern Iraq amid speculation that American forces could be used to help evacuate people threatened by Islamic militants.<\/p>\n

The Ospreys were used Tuesday to move 129 additional U.S. military personnel to the city of Irbil and they remain in the area, Pentagon spokesman Col. Steve Warren told reporters on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ll stay there until they\u2019re no longer required,\u201d Warren said.<\/p>\n

Warren did not say how many Ospreys are there, but a defense official told Stars and Stripes that it\u2019s \u201ca small number.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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