“The US Defense Security Cooperation Agency said that ‘the U.S. State Department agreed to sell Iraq five thousand Hellfire missiles to help it in the war against Jihadists.'” What’s that you say, US Defense Security Cooperation Agency? “Jihadists”? Don’t you know that CIA director John Brennan has declared that jihad is a positive concept, and that the Obama Administration has deleted all references to jihad from counter-terror training manuals? In other words, the Obama Administration policy is that jihad is a positive thing, and that Islamic jihad terrorists are not really jihadists at all. So the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency’s word choice here is extremely poor, and inconsistent with Administration policy. Someone in the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency is heading for a reprimand. Ibrahim Hooper, call your office!
“URGENT: US sells 5,000 missiles to Iraq in $700 million USD weapons deal,” by Abdelhak Mamoun, Iraqi News, July 30, 2014 (thanks to Kenneth):
(IraqiNews.com) On Wednesday the United States announced the sale of 5,000 missiles to Iraq as part of a weapons deal valued at $700 million dollars while indicating that 180 Lockhead Martin “Hellfire” missiles have already been transferred this year and 360 more “Hellfire” missiles will be delivered in August.
The US Defense Security Cooperation Agency said that “the U.S. State Department agreed to sell Iraq five thousand Hellfire missiles to help it in the war against Jihadists,” indicating that “Iraq will use these missiles to increase the capacity of its security apparatus in field operations carried out by now. “
The U.S. Defense Department said that “Washington handed over to Baghdad 180 Hellfire missile in this year and 360 more will be delivered next August.”
This is the largest recent missile deal between the two countries, which include 5 thousand missiles for use by jet planes, miscellaneous equipment, spare parts and training courses offered by the American forces to the Iraqi security services.
U.S. forces have used Hellfire missiles with drones to hunt down suspected members of al-Qaeda in Pakistan, Yemen and elsewhere.
Richie says
weapons that will be used against Israel
Beagle says
Only if some are left over after the upcoming Siege of Baghdad. I’m guessing the Iraqi Shia will need every one of them. Hellfires are not great terror weapons because they are generally helicopter or drone-launched air-to-ground missiles.
Jerry says
Why don’t they supply them directly to the
UNRWA – United Nations Rocket & Weapons Agency
duly packaged in USAID wrappings?
After all, there is now a wannabe Islamic Caliph
reigning in the Whitewash Oval Orifice!
Jan Fourowls says
Exactly, Jerry! He must have accepted the offer of lifetime Caliph Jr. of the IS – U.S. Branch. That or the sword, because until his second term of office he didn’t show himself to be a sufficiently devout aka pro-terrorist global-conquest-motivated Muslim like his brother Malik not to have IS lop off his head.
Two weeks ago Iran sent a general to work with Iraq ostensibly against IS, http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/07/17/top-iranian-general-and-advisers-join-front-lines-of-iraqi-military-fight-against-militants/, but last week in a speech to Muslims the Iranian Ayatollah signaled his solidarity with IS, Hamas and anybody else warring against Israel. (I saw it live-blogged on Times of Israel.)
Wherever these missiles ultimately end up, and whoever they’re shot at, it doesn’t look good for Israel (and maybe also not good for us in the U.S. after Obama’s $11 billion arms deal with terrorist-funnel Qatar last week).
rhonda says
EXACTLY!!! The Obama admin is arming the entire ME with weapons of mass destruction, if you will, for the sole purpose of wiping Israel off the map. If you are a believer in God, the One True God (not allah), then we must pray for the safety of Israel. We must pray for God to rid our WH of the usurper, who is a fraud. If we pray and beseech Him day and night, He will hear our cry for Truth and Justice and for Peace in Jerusalem..
dumbledoresarmy says
And since we’re talking about Iraq, where the last remnant of the indigenous pre-Islamic peoples and culture, the Assyrian Christians, have been driven out of Mosul and are threatened with similar “ethnoreligious cleansing” all over the country should ISIS expand and rule…
PUBLIC NOTICE FOR ATTENTION OF AUSSIE JIHADWATCHERS
There will be a march/ rally in Sydney, NSW, Australia on Saturday August 2 2014 to exhibit solidarity with and raise public awareness of the plight of the persecuted and threatened-with-genocide indigenous Christians of Iraq.
Details here:
http://www.auscma.com/?p=2784
“We call on Australian Christians of all denominations, human rights activists, media, elected officials, and all individuals concerned about the welfare of Iraq’s imperiled minorities to attend this protest and rally in support of these beleaguered communities.
“We also urge people to raise awareness of the plight of Iraqi Christians and to communicate this protest to their friends, colleagues, sympathetic individuals, churches and other relevant organisations, whether through mass, meetings or online social media.”
Jihadwatchers who live in or near Sydney or will be in Sydney on that day *must* if at all possible attend that rally.
I will keep on posting this announcement in the newest threads, until the eve of the rally.
I *can’t* get there, but I will be writing to the Australian PM, drawing his attention to the offer recently made by France – they have declared they will offer asylum to Christians who have been threatened by IS jihadis in Iraq, and are prepared to”facilitate their asylum” – and asking that we in Australia should do likewise. I would much rather bring in thousands of Christian refugees – who are *genuine* refugees, fleeing imminent genocide – than thousands of dangerous, ungrateful Muslims. Barnabas Fund and other similar bodies have been working with these Iraqi Christians for years, know the communities and the language/s, and could be asked to help handle the processing so as to weed out fakes (mohammedans pretending to be what they ain’t).
PRCS says
Best of luck with the march, dda.
I’ll be looking to see how Australian newspapers report the event.
Jan Fourowls says
Lovely to know there’s help for persecuted Christians. Thanks for keeping us up to date on Australia, dumbledoresarmy. We still had the freedom to gather, worship and pray about all of it tonight at the public Wed. service at my church, including missionaries leading congregations laying low in such risky territory that they’ve asked that we pray for them by not names but initials and with their locale unmentioned because nobody knows anymore with so much global Islamic violence who can be trusted (we’re located in a heavily Muslim-American part of U.S. where we welcome all visitors). We have some longer term authentic Christian converts from Islam, vetted as you note to weed out taqiyya fakes, but any recent visitors may not be safe for our missionaries. Sad but it’s only self-preservation and protection of our faith from Islamic persecution.
mortimer says
Jihad is good, but jihad is bad. Which is it?
Beagle says
Today, in Iraq, bad. But insofar as saying that might cut CAIR contributions to the DNC, good again later.
Vapourking says
ISIS will be in precession of those little bad boys in no time.
pumbar says
What you bet some of these will be being reverse engineered in Iran in a matter of days…
umbra says
They are not that fast, but they will eventually reverse engineer and produce their own versions.
pumbar says
Sorry, internet ambiguity again. I meant that they’ll be in Iran in a couple of days for reverse engineering.
jewdog says
The ISIS jihadists need to go into Iran. That would help distract the jihadists there. I like it when jihadists kill each other – the Iraq government is allied with Iran.
Beagle says
I think the Iranians are coming to the IS, or at least to defend Baghdad. The Shia *dramatic music* League of the Righteous (featuring Sharia Man) is preparing to battle the IS in Iraq.
Found one at AT:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/07/iraqs_league_of_the_righteous_our_friend_in_iraq_and_enemy_in_syria.html
jewdog says
Thanks, Beagle. Sounds like it’s now the League of the Righteous and the Stupid.
SpiritOf1683 says
Given the weakness of Iraq’s Armed Forces, that is more hardware destined to fall into the hands of ISIS. And because of that, these Hellfires have to stay under US control.
Jan Fourowls says
SpiritOf1683:
“Given the weakness of Iraq’s Armed Forces, that is more hardware destined to fall into the hands of ISIS.”
Yes, absolutely. By Obama Harvard Law grad dumb-like-a-fox design. Re: ISIS, I like to call it IS even though MSM doesn’t in reminder to us all that it is the Sunni (90% of the world’s Muslims are Sunni) Caliphate that has designated itself for global conquest as the Islamic State with Iran’s Shiite (most of the rest of the world’s Muslims are Shii) blessing last week. The Islamic State has over 10,000 Muslim-Americans and Muslim-Europeans being trained now, more pouring in every day, in the former Syria for jihadist later return to the West on passports and visa waivers.
“And because of that, these Hellfires have to stay under US control.”
That’d be nice, what any American patriot would hope for, but Obama is not behaving as a patriot after his $11 billion arms deal with terrorist-funnel Qatar (junior level CIA types know Qatar funds and arms Hamas, I’ve read). With red-blue congressional stalemate on both sides of the two-party political divide (after determinative unlimited global corporate and dark money campaign funding granted to RINOs and Democrats by SCOTUS), they’re just mouthing off and drawing big paychecks, perqs and lifelong consulting sinecures as oligarchs. Anybody decent in Congress is vastly outnumbered. Congress is letting Obama act by executive order fiat. Big-talk-no-effective-action Congress. Traitorous pro-Islamist Taqiyya President gets to act like a dictator. He fakes being inept to get people off the scent of the trail of his betrayal of the American people. Therefore it is reasonable to expect Islamic terrorists to get the Hellfires.
onisac says
I’m pretty sure all Muslims use the Qur’an for their guidance. So why would the Kaffirs from the U.S. consider such a foolish mistake?
Jan Fourowls says
Onisac – It’s not foolish if you see Obama through the lens of his being a pro-Islamist if not a Muslim outright who is betraying the U.S. in favor of the Islamic State.
One reason to say “Jihadists” is that if Obama imprints “Jihadists” in the minds of Americans — who generally know Jihadists as a term regarding murderous Islamic conquest of 9/11 — then Americans will think the Iraqi Muslims will really fire the Hellfires with intent to kill IS Muslims who are Jihadists. This will make most Americans think the Hellfires in Iraqi hands make sense in 2014 (when we used to be firing the missiles at Iraqis in prior wars with U.S. soldiers on the ground over there). But really the Hellfires will be used against non-Muslims, be they Israelis or others (Jews and Christians which Muslims by the Quran are sworn to persecute and eliminate).
See how Obama if he is really an Islamic State-loving, American-hating quisling (and faking when he claimed to be Christian for electoral purposes) would be enjoying this? It’ll probably improve his golf game.
The Iraqi Muslims probably are on board behind the scenes with IS and its plans for global Muslim conquest (Israel and the U.S. being the obvious decades favored targets until Obama entered this fray trying to make it seem as though Iraqis, Qatar, Hamas, etc. no longer target the U.S. or no longer want to murder the biggest bunch of Christians in the world along with the Jews in the U.S. because terrorist Islam by Obama’s deception to the American people is only the “Jihadists” and none of the other Quran-readers).
Then when these Hellfires end up in the hands of IS “Jihadists” (or used against Israel or U.S. citizens) Obama can feign another misstep in not appreciating how aggressive the “Jihadists” have become. He could pretend it was never his idea that Hellfires could be used on anybody but those big bad Jihadists. That would work for him, too, when the IS “Jihadists” come to the U.S with boots and bombs on the ground. Oh, my, look what the “Jihadists” have done to the U.S. when we had so many more “moderate” Muslim allies in the Middle East like the Iraqis. (Who would have all left Iraq and joined the IS for its historic Caliphate of conquest insofar as the regular soldiers go by that point, maybe even be coming over the unsecured southern U.S. borders where nobody knows their names with El Salvadoran torture gangs to run pre-ground interference.) Or whatever.
Word-smithing and spin-doctoring for present and future options is its own evil art form of propaganda, one Obama uses most expertly, and there will likely be an obvious reason he called IS “Jihadists” down the road.
One possibility is that IS will be bringing its Jihadists to the U.S. sooner than most people would think possible because the Islamic states have appeared to outsiders to war so much with one another that most people aren’t prepared even to consider that they’re informally scheming behind the scenes to collaborate for conquest globally against non-Muslims (as the Quran directs, Allah being the greatest schemer).
Iran’s Ayatollah has a $60 billion personal fortune, for instance. These guys may look like camel riders but they are sophisticated military tacticians (Eqypt’s Sissi, for instance, has had the best military strategic training money can buy in Western universities), they are bazillionaires, and they are rich enough to buy any weapons in the world. Iran probably already has nukes and all the talk-talk-talk in the press-press-press is a diversion for a gullible public, part of the show of being a “free press” democracy that is really a global oligarchy. Netanyahu probably knows Iran has nukes and lives with it as best he can, since Israel always has the Samson fallback plan as a last resort for its nukes that global leaders know about to give them pause. Obama apparently gave terrorist-funnel Qatar EMP-defense technology that the U.S. isn’t using for our protection against EMP. On the ground as well as over the air and at the seaports in the U.S. we have a President in Obama who has opened the door wide open at so many levels to Jihadist assault of the U.S. homeland — by critical omissions of necessary defensive strategy as well as acts playing to the interests of the Islamist enemy — it as though he himself ran on the IS/Hamas/PLO/PA/Jihadist party ticket when Americans elected him.
As always I hope my opinions and speculations are wrong but I’m not counting on that being so.
And btw Onisac, kaffir is an ugly term with a racist South African past that I don’t like and would never apply to anybody in the U.S. or elsewhere, even if Muslims may have adopted it among themselves and proven their lust for all things intolerant and discriminatory by using it to refer to Christians like me who have read and understood the directions of the Quran for deception, intolerance, discrimination, hostility and violence — and like me rejected the Quran, Allah and Muhammad as being a great evil, remaining faithful instead to the one true and triune God: Father, Son (Jesus Christ, crucified for the sins of humankind and resurrected because He is both fully human and fully divine) and Holy Spirit (Ruach HaKodesh in the Hebrew, in solidarity with the Jewish people).
The one and triune God provides a beautiful and powerful and mysterious yet palpable relationship, here and hereafter, that makes everything I see coming for my country pale in comparison to what God has eternally planned for those who don’t murder, those who don’t make and love a lie, those who don’t follow the unholy Quran’s directions for scheming deception and violent genocide.
Jan Fourowls says
Another part of the scenario — because Muslim end-times eschatology apparently requires purging insufficiently devout jihadist (aka insufficiently murderous) Muslims from the ranks of the final eschatological conquerors, when the Muslim-on-Muslim murders happen (IS against Iraqis, maybe even involving a Hellfire missile or two, now that I think about it), that intra-Islamic murderousness will play into the taqiyya/kitman foisted on the West about Islamists being divided among themselves without the ability to form a coalition against the main enemies — Israel, U.S., Jews and Christians.
So Jihadist boots on the ground in the U.S. probably not happening tomorrow!
From the Islamists’ perspective, they will murderously weed out those without the stomach among Muslims for global genocide, either before or concurrently operating in unspoken coalition against the Quran’s commonly stated enemy. It’s why we saw early IS (before Hamas started the current war against Israel) crucifying inadequate Muslim enemies, pictures sent around the global internet to beef up interest in joining the Jihad according to the end-times eschatology. It’s rather plainly all there for any with eyes to see, ears to hear. Jesus Christ suggested we open our eyes and ears and He’s my Savior and Lord, so I try to do as He guided.
BTW also — the Christian eschatology is the good mirror image to some extent of Islam’s genocidal eschatology which would be very bad for Christians and Jews, if true, but because Islam’s was just a post-6th century ripoff and distortion of Jewish and Christian scriptural prophecies about the End of Days, there isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell of it working out the way Muslims want it to.
Cindy says
The United States is doing very ad things here. They are partnering with the bad guys and fighting against our own alleies. I’m sick all over about this. The US better wake-up we are asking for bad things, very bad things to happen if we support those fighting against Israel.
duh_swami says
There should be no arms, no money, no appeasement to any Mahoundian despots anywhere. There is no way to do that without giving aid and comfort to the enemy, which is treason.
Jeff says
According to Obama, we all owe Muslims a great debt of gratitude for the creation of the USA.
Bob Welsh says
Anyone paying attention knows these Hellfire missles will (1) be used against Israel and (2) be used against Americans should we ever choose to go back in to Iraq. As for Obama’s statement about how much America “owes” to Islam…what else would we expect from a closet homosexual, married to a transgendered “woman” who hates Jesus Christ and probably has a prayer rug on his bedroom floor facing Mecca. Obama is clearly guilty of rendering aid and comfort to the enemies of the US (and Israel). But he will never be held accountable for it. There are powerful forces (spiritual as well as geo-political) working toward the fall of America. Sadly I see little to stop them. As a Christian my loyalties are directed toward heaven yet I weep and grieve for what I see as the unavoidable fall of America…once called the beautiful…and as we slide closer and closer to the brink of Sodom and Gomorrah…perhaps it is deserved? I hope and pray I am wrong.
Bob Welsh says
Nobody will wipe Israel off the map. The Lord God of Israel will intervene. At their darkest hour He will rise up and destroy the enemies of Israel. Obama is on the wrong side of this fight. He has sided with the demons inspiring Islam and whipping them into a frenzy agains Israel. God will put hooks in their jaws and drag them down to their destruction. Just like Pharaoh of old…in the midst of their pursuit of Israel they will be annihilated. I see Ezekiel 38-39 coming to pass very soon.
Robert Wagner says
Do you remember when we gave arms to the Taliban to use against the Russians?
Didn’t they turn around and use them against us?
FatherJon says
Another bad idea! We saw what has been happening with other items America provided to the insurgent forces in Libya and Iraq post the downfall of Gadaffi and Saddam.
FJ
EYESOPEN says
You got that right Father Jon. We know exactly into whose hands those weapons will fall. Thanks OBummer, you treasonous SOB.