Another 130 US troops arrived in Iraq on Tuesday on what the Pentagon
described as a temporary mission to assess the scope of the
humanitarian crisis facing thousands of displaced Iraqi civilians
trapped on Mt Sinjar and evaluate options for getting them out to
safety.
The defence secretary, Chuck Hagel, announced the deployment in remarks to Marines at the Camp Pendleton base in Southern California, on the final stop of a week-long, around-the-world trip that also took him to India, Germany and Australia.
“This is not a combat, boots-on-the-ground kind of operation,” Hagel said. “We’re not going back into Iraq in any of the same combat mission dimensions that we once were in in Iraq.”
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/13/us-sends-another-130-troops-iraq
The defence secretary, Chuck Hagel, announced the deployment in remarks to Marines at the Camp Pendleton base in Southern California, on the final stop of a week-long, around-the-world trip that also took him to India, Germany and Australia.
“This is not a combat, boots-on-the-ground kind of operation,” Hagel said. “We’re not going back into Iraq in any of the same combat mission dimensions that we once were in in Iraq.”
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/13/us-sends-another-130-troops-iraq
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