{"id":94103,"date":"2020-01-06T16:54:09","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T20:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=94103"},"modified":"2020-01-06T17:14:48","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T21:14:48","slug":"letter-from-us-coalition-will-respect-iraq-parliaments-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=94103","title":{"rendered":"Letter from US Coalition \u2013 Will Respect Iraq Parliament&#8217;s Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28097\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/last-convoy-out-of-Iraq.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"294\" height=\"112\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Reuters reports that a letter was sent to the Iraqi Defense Ministry, to their Baghdad combined joint operations center. In it, the coalition commander said that they would reposition the troops for further movement. The Reuters article suggests that this is a precursor to withdrawal from Iraq.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The entire article from Reuters:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>BAGHDAD, Jan 6 (Reuters) &#8211; The United States-led military coalition against Islamic State said on Monday that it was pulling out of Iraq and would be repositioning forces over the next few days and weeks, a letter seen by Reuters showed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Sir, in deference to the sovereignty of the Republic of Iraq, and as requested by the Iraqi Parliament and the Prime Minister, CJTF-OIR will be repositioning forces over the course of the coming days and weeks to prepare for onward movement<\/span><\/strong>,&#8221; read a letter from United States Marine Corps Brigadier General William H. Seely III, the commanding general of Task Force Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>The authenticity of the letter, which was addressed to the Iraqi defence ministry&#8217;s Combined Joint Operations Baghdad, was confirmed to Reuters independently by an Iraqi military source.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">We respect your sovereign decision to order our departure<\/span><\/strong>,&#8221; it said. (Reporting by Ahmed Aboulenein Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Link to Reuters <a href=\"http:\/\/news.trust.org\/item\/20200106193750-gbx3f\">article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Edited to add:<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_94115\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94115\" style=\"width: 281px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-94115\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/letter-announcing-US-pulling-out-of-Iraq-250x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"281\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/letter-announcing-US-pulling-out-of-Iraq-250x333.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/letter-announcing-US-pulling-out-of-Iraq-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/letter-announcing-US-pulling-out-of-Iraq.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 281px) 100vw, 281px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-94115\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Letter to correct Defense Ministry announcing the intent to pull US forces out. (r\/The_Donald)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters reports that a letter was sent to the Iraqi Defense Ministry, to their Baghdad combined &hellip; <a title=\"Letter from US Coalition \u2013 Will Respect Iraq Parliament&#8217;s Decision\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=94103\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Letter from US Coalition \u2013 Will Respect Iraq Parliament&#8217;s Decision<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[400],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94114,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94103\/revisions\/94114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}