US and Iran’s First Joint Military Venture: Fighting al Qaeda in Iraq
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Subject: US and Iran’s First Joint Military Venture: Fighting al Qaeda in Iraq Mon Dec 30, 2013 7:20 am
US and Iran’s First Joint Military Venture: Fighting al Qaeda in Iraq
7:26 PM (IDT)
US weapons and Iranian Al Qods officers join the Iraqi army in a major anti-al-Qaeda offensive, the biggest the Middle East has seen in six years. Their aim is to foil Al Qaeda’s plan for its first caliphate across the Syrian-Iraqi frontier - but also to buttress the pro-Iranian Shiite crescent arching over the region. Vladimir Putin, mindful of the impending Sochi Olympics, watches approvingly - as a suicide bomber blows up the Volgograd railway station, killing 15-18 people and injuring dozens.
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US and Iran’s First Joint Military Venture: Fighting al Qaeda in Iraq