'American forces are on the ground here': Kurds claim US commandos ARE fighting ISIS with them in northern Iraq, after Obama said no 'combat troops' would fight
- President Obama said a week ago that no US 'combat troops' would be fighting in Iraq
- But Special Forces that looked like Americans were witnessed entering a combat zone near the Iraqi town of Zumar
- Kurdish intelligence and military sources told the Daily Beast that German and American forces were on the ground fighting with them
- Obama's careful word-parsing could mean that Special Forces are 'painting targets' with lasers for airborne missiles
American Special Forces commandos are on the ground fighting in northern Iraq, according to a published report, just a week after Barack Obama said that wouldn't happen. And with a second brutal beheading in Syria ,the president may soon have to decide how much more military might to deploy.
Even as he has authorized more than 100 target airstrikes against the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) in Iraq, Obama told the American Legion on August 26 that 'American combat troops will not be returning to fight in Iraq.'
'I will not allow the United States to be dragged back into another ground war in Iraq,' he said, adding later that 'the answer' to ISIS 'is not to send in large-scale military deployments that overstretch our military.'
His parsing of words – 'combat troops' and 'large-scale' – now seem calculated to produce platoon-sized loopholes.
A [Links nur für registrierte Nutzer] freelance reporter wrote Tuesday that he saw 'what appeared to be bearded Western Special Operations Forces' in a caravan of armored vehicles near the Iraqi town of Zumar.
The battle-scarred location, 30 miles from Mosul and a bit further from Erbil, had been the site of fierce fighting between Kurdish Peshmerga forces and ISIS militants.
'They didn't wear any identifying insignia,' the reporter added, 'but they were visibly Western and appeared to match all the visual characteristics of American special operations soldiers.'
This particular freelancer should know: He's a 27-year-old former U.S. Army Ranger who served three tours in Iraq and two in Afghanistan
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Lügner Obamba sagte noch am 26.8.14 "Ich werde nicht erlauben, dass die USA in einen weiteren Bodenkrieg im Irak hineingezogen werden!"
Nun sind sie doch dort im Krieg und markieren mit Lasern Ziele für Luft-Boden-Raketen!