‘US war policy against ISIL to cause issues’
The United States deployment of warplanes and troops in the Middle East against Daesh (ISIL) appears problematic as it is not in coordination with other regional forces, says a former Pentagon official.
Michael Maloof told Press TV in a Sunday interview that Washington’s latest deployment of B52 bombers in the Persian Gulf region is aimed at curbing ISIL in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.
He said however that “the problem I see is that we are not coordinating anything with other forces.”
“We need to be doing something in a coordinated fashion and we are not doing that. It’s ironic that the United States is not a member of the Russian coordination panel that’s based in Amman, Jordan.”
His comments follow the recent Pentagon decision to send an unspecified number of B52 bombers to Qatar.
The deployment is the first of the kind in the Persian Gulf region since the end of the US-led war against Iraq in 1991 following the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait.
"The B-52 demonstrates our continued resolve to apply persistent pressure on Daesh and defend the region in any future contingency," said Air Force Lieutenant General Charles Brown, commander of US Air Forces Central Command.
Washington's decision to deploy B-52 bombers to Qatar came as the US military claims to have stepped up the fight against ISIL in Iraq and Syria.
Last month, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph Dunford said the Pentagon was planning to deploy additional American combat troops in Iraq to accelerate military operations against Daesh terrorists.
Pentagon had previously announced there were 3,500 US forces on the ground in Iraq to ‘train and equip’ local security forces.
Daesh terrorists, who were initially trained by the CIA in Jordan in 2012 to destabilize the Syrian government, now control large parts of Iraq and Syria. They are engaged in crimes against humanity in the areas under their control.
US warplanes have been conducting airstrikes against ISIL in Iraq since August of 2014. Some Western states have also participated in some of the strikes in Iraq.
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