As first US advisers reach Baghdad, Iranians and Saudis airlift weapons to opposing sides in Iraq

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When the first of the 300 military advisers US President Barack Obama promised the Iraqi government arrived in Baghdad Wednesday, June 25, Iranian and Saudi Arabian arms shipments were already in full flow to opposing sides in embattled Iraq, DEBKAfile’s military sources report.

At least two cargo planes from bases in Iran were landing daily at Baghdad’s military airport, carrying 150 tons of military equipment. More than 1,000 tons were flown in this past week alone. Tehran has replicated for the Iraqi army the routine it established for Bashar Assad’s army, furnishing its needs on a daily basis as per its commanders’ requests. Those requests come before a joint Iranian-Iraqi headquarters set up at the Iraqi high command in Baghdad for approval and the assigning of priorities for shipment.

At the same time, Saudi arms are flowing to the Iraqi Sunni tribes fighting alongside the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) against the Iraqi army and the Shiite Nouri al-Maliki’s government.

They are coming in both overland and by airlift.

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Here is the latest from the pResident on the Iraqi situation:

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Does anyone have a warm and fuzzy feeling for our State Department or Congressional Foreign Relations/Intelligence committees? An Islamic jihad in the Middle East may be seen as a solution to radical Islam: let them kill themselves off. But a worldwide energy price spike will collapse the economies of most countries and precipitate a world war. Which was always the point.

David DeGerolamo

      
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