Kit tentera Iraq tanah perbuangan
sampah dekat dengan pusat pemeriksaan Kukjali Iraq Tentera Darat, beberapa 10km
timur bandar utara Mosul, pada 11 Jun, 2014, sehari selepas militan Sunni,
termasuk pejuang dari Negara Islam Iraq dan Levant (ISIL yang) menakluki bandar
(Iraqi military kit litters the ground close to the Kukjali Iraqi Army
checkpoint, some 10km of east of the northern city of Mosul, on June 11, 2014,
the day after Sunni militants, including fighters from the Islamic State of
Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) overran the city (AFP Photo/Safin Hamed)
Srikandi גבורה - Iraq
telah secara peribadi yang ditunjukkan kepada pentadbiran Obama bahawa ia akan
menyambut serangan udara dengan sama ada pesawat atau pesawat yang dipandu
manusia yang mensasarkan Al-Qaeda militan cabang dalam wilayah Iraq, kata pegawai
negara itu.
Seorang
pegawai kanan Amerika Syarikat berkata pentadbiran Obama sedang
mem-pertimbangkan pilihan dalam membantu usaha kerajaan Iraq terhadap militan
Islam, yang telah berjuang dan memenangi keuntungan besar di kawasan Sunni
majoriti negara dalam beberapa hari kebelakangan ini, Wall Street Journal
melaporkan.
Orang-orang
pilihan termasuk "sokongan kinetik" untuk tentera Iraq dalam
menentang kumpulan Islam yang sebelum ini bersekutu dengan Al-Qaeda - Negara
Islam Iraq dan Levant (ISIS/ISIL). Kumpulan itu merampas 2 bandar-bandar utama
di utara Baghdad minggu ini, ringan tangan mengalahkan pasukan keselamatan Iraq
di sepanjang jalan, menurut laporan.
Tiada
keputusan mengenai tindakan di Iraq telah dibuat, menurut pegawai kanan.
Sumber-sumber
Wall Street Journal tidak menyatakan sama ada serangan udara akan datang dari
pesawat tanpa pemandu atau pesawat yang dipandu manusia.
Bernadette
Meehan, seorang jurucakap Majlis Keselamatan Negara, tidak mengulas mengenai
permintaan Perdana Menteri Iraq Nouri al-Maliki kerana sokongan tentera,
berkata dalam satu kenyataan bahawa "Kami tidak akan masuk ke dalam
butir-butir perbincangan diplomatik kita, tetapi Kerajaan Iraq telah membuat
jelas bahawa mereka mengalu-alukan sokongan kami."
Iraq
sebelum ini telah meminta Amerika Syarikat untuk akses kepada pesawat tentera
yg boleh digunakan terhadap kuasa-kuasa pemberontak, banyak yg tlh
memberanikan oleh perang saudara yang sengit di negara jiran Syria. Setakat
Washington enggan memenuhi kekurangan-pesawat, kata pegawai, tetapi telah membekalkan
peluru berpandu Hellfire dan pesawat pengawasan.
Tahun
lepas, Menteri Luar Iraq Hoshyar Zebari mencadangkan bahawa pesawat tentera
boleh digunakan untuk sasaran militan, tetapi pegawai Amerika menolak keras,
berkata permintaan itu tidak datang dari Maliki, The New York Times melaporkan.
Sementara
itu, Iraq meminta penghantaran disegerakan senjata pesanan utama, ter-masuk
puluhan F-16 jet pejuang menguncup dengan Lockheed Martin dan puluhan Apache
helikopter Boeing, untuk menentang pejuang-pejuang pemberontak.
IRAQ
Open to US Airstrikes Against Jihadists - reports
Iraq
has privately indicated to the Obama administration that it would welcome
airstrikes with either drones or manned aircraft that target Al-Qaeda offshoot
militants in Iraqi territory, US officials say.
A
senior US official said the Obama administration is considering options in
aiding the Iraqi government’s fight against Islamist militants, who have fought
for and won major gains in the nation’s Sunni-majority areas in recent days,
the Wall Street Journal reported.
Those
options include “kinetic support” for the Iraqi military in its fight against
an Islamist group formerly allied with Al-Qaeda – the Islamic State of Iraq and
the Levant (ISIS/ISIL). The group seized two major cities north of Baghdad this
week, handily defeating Iraqi security forces along the way, according to
reports.
No
decisions on action in Iraq have been made, according to the senior official.
The
Wall Street Journal sources did not specify whether airstrikes would come from
unmanned drones or manned aircraft.
Bernadette
Meehan, a spokeswoman for the National Security Council, did not comment on
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s requests for military support, saying in
a statement that “We are not going to get into details of our diplomatic
discussions, but the government of Iraq has made clear that they welcome our
support.”
Iraq
had previously asked the US for access to armed drones that could be used against
insurgent forces, many of which have been emboldened by the fierce civil war in
neighboring Syria. Washington has thus far refused to supply those drones,
officials said, but has supplied Hellfire missiles and surveillance drones.
Last
year, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari suggested that armed drones could
be used to target militants, but American officials balked, saying the request
did not come from Maliki, The New York Times reported.
Meanwhile,
Iraq is requesting the hastened delivery of major weapons orders, including
dozens of F-16 fighter jets contracted with Lockheed Martin and dozens of
Boeing’s Apache helicopters, to counter the insurgent fighters.
Keluarga Iraq yang
melarikan diri dari keganasan di wilayah Nineveh utara berkumpul di pusat
pemeriksaan Kurdish di Aski kalak, 40 km Barat Arbil, di rantau autonomi Kurdistan
(Iraqi families fleeing violence in the northern Nineveh province gather at a
Kurdish checkpoint in Aski kalak, 40 kms West of Arbil, in the autonomous
Kurdistan region (AFP Photo/Safin Hamed)
"Apa
yang kami katakan ialah perlu ada fikir segera," Lukman faily, duta Iraq
ke Amerika Syarikat, memberitahu The Wall Street Journal. "Kami kini
menjangka Amerika Syarikat menghargai pengertian ini yang mendesak."
Faily
berkata "apa yang kita perlukan" adalah penyampaian jet dan Apache
secepat mungkin, bukan berbulan-bulan lagi seperti yang dirancang.
"Amunisi,
peluru berpandu Hellfire, peralatan pengawasan . . . ini tidak
permainan-pengurup," katanya. "Kita perlu pengurup-permainan."
Sudah
minggu ini, ISIL telah mengambil kawalan Mosul dan Tikrit, bandar yang ke-2
terbesar di negara dan kampung halaman bekas Presiden Saddam Hussein,.
Sementara
itu, di bandar Samarra, yang terletak jauh ke selatan daripada Tikrit di tebing
timur Sungai Tigris, pertempuran dilaporkan meletus pada Rabu antara tentera
Iraq dan militan tiba di trak dengan mesingan, menurut AFP. Samarra, sebuah
Tapak Warisan Dunia UNESCO, adalah rumah kepada beberapa tempat suci untuk umat
Islam Syiah.
Satu
sumber tentera memberitahu Al Arabiya saluran berita bahawa angkatan Kurdish
dilaporkan berjuang militan ISIL di Kirkuk untuk menghentikan serangan mereka.
Terdahulu,
ISIL dgn bangganya penawanan penapisan minyak terbesar Iraq utara bandar Baiji,
dengan mendakwa ia telah "merampas tanpa pukulan." Kilang minyak,
yang terletak kurang daripada 180 kilometer (110 batu) dari Mosul, adalah salah
satu strategik objek dijamin oleh tentera yang diketuai dalam serangan Iraq
2003 dan teliti mencari senjata pemusnah besar-besaran. Tiada bahan kimia yang
pernah ditemui di sana.
Majlis
Keselamatan PBB mengutuk perbalahan terkini ISIL dengan berkata dalam satu
kenyataan bahawa "serangan pengganas baru-baru ini . . . sedang dilakukan
terhadap rakyat Iraq dalam usaha untuk menjejaskan kestabilan negara dan rantau
ini."
"Majlis
Keselamatan kesal kerasnya peristiwa baru-baru ini di bandar Mosul di Iraq di
mana unsur-unsur organisasi pengganas . . . ISIL telah mengambil alih
bahagian-bahagian penting di bandar ini, termasuk Konsulat Turki dan
bangunan-bangunan kerajaan banyak, dan beratus-ratus pelarian ribuan orang,
"kata majlis itu.
Kawasan
berhampiran dengan sempadan Syria ISIL telah mengukuhkan tapak perniagaan utama
di seluruh utara dan barat Iraq. Fallujah, sebuah bandar utama di barat Baghdad
dan tempat pertempuran utama yang berikut pencerobohan yang diketuai pada tahun
2003, jatuh kepada ISIL bulan lalu.
"What
we are saying is that there needs to be a sense of urgency," Lukman Faily,
Iraq's ambassador to the US, told The Wall Street Journal. "We now expect
the US to appreciate this sense of urgency."
Faily
said “what we need” is the delivery of the jets and Apaches as soon as
possible, not months away as is planned.
"Ammunition,
Hellfire missiles, surveillance equipment . . . these are not
game-changers," he said. "We need game-changers."
Already
this week, ISIL has taken control of Mosul and Tikrit, the nation’s
second-largest city and former president Saddam Hussein’s hometown,
respectively.
Meanwhile,
in the city of Samarra, located further south of Tikrit on the east bank of the
Tigris River, clashes reportedly broke out on Wednesday between Iraqi forces
and militants arriving in trucks with machine guns, according to AFP. Samarra,
a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is home to several holy sites for Shia Muslims.
A
military source told Al Arabiya news channel that Kurdish forces are reportedly
fighting ISIL militants in Kirkuk to stop their offensive.
Earlier,
ISIL boasted the capture of Iraq’s biggest oil refinery north of the city of
Baiji, claiming it had “seized it without a shot.” The oil refinery, located
less than 180 kilometers (110 miles) from Mosul, was one of the strategic
objects secured by US-led forces in the 2003 invasion of Iraq and was
thoroughly searched for weapons of mass destruction. No chemical agents were
ever found there.
The
United Nations Security Council condemned ISIL’s latest offensives, saying in a
statement that "the recent terrorist attacks . . . are being perpetrated
against the people of Iraq in an attempt to destabilize the country and
region."
"The
Security Council deplored in the strongest terms the recent events in the city
of Mosul in Iraq where elements of the terrorist organization . . . ISIL have
taken over significant parts of the city, including the Turkish Consulate and
many government buildings, and displaced hundreds of thousands of people,"
the council said.
ISIL
has already established major footholds throughout north and west Iraq, areas
close to the Syrian border. Fallujah, a major city just west of Baghdad and the
site of major battles following the US-led invasion in 2003, fell to ISIL
months ago.
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