News Updates from CLG
16 Jun 2014
16 Jun 2014
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Breaking: Moderate
earthquakes hit near Fukushima nuclear plant 16 Jun 2014 Two moderate earthquakes have struck off Japan's eastern
coast near Fukushima, but officials say there's no immediate risk to the
stricken nuclear power plant. The epicentre of the first quake, with a magnitude
measuring 5.7, was located some 91km off the coast of Honshu, Japan's largest
and most populated island, at a depth of 22km shortly after 3am local time (0400
AEST). The US Geological Survey said a second, 5.6-magnitude quake struck two
hours later, slightly closer to shore at a depth of 39km.
US, UK create joint team to prepare for air strikes in Iraq -
report 15 Jun 2014 Over a decade
after the US and UK invaded Iraq in 2003, the military allies have created a
joint 'counter-terrorist' team to send to the country. British officers are
already on their way "to prepare for possible air strikes," The Sunday Times
reports. "SAS [Special Air Service of the British Army] officers were on their
way to Iraq this weekend to prepare the ground for possible air strikes. Senior
defence sources confirmed that military personnel were part of a joint British
and American "counter-terrorist" team ordered in on Friday by William Hague, the
foreign secretary, and John Kerry, the US secretary of state. The team is
understood to include MI6 operatives as well as high-ranking special forces
officers," The Sunday Times reported.
50 - 100 U.S. Marines and U.S. Army personnel arrive at U.S.
Embassy in Baghdad 15 Jun 2014
"Mosul didn't fall," a defiant Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told military
leaders in Baghdad on Sunday, state TV reported. "The ones who have fallen are
the politicians who have bet against Iraq." The Prime Minister said, "We will
not allow anyone to divide the Iraqi people." Breaking news alert at 5:58 p.m.
Between 50 and 100 U.S. Marines and U.S. Army personnel have arrived at the U.S.
Embassy in Baghdad, a U.S. official told CNN on Sunday.
U.S. Aircraft Carrier, Cruiser, Destroyer Arrive in Persian
Gulf 15 Jun 2014 The aircraft
carrier USS George H.W. Bush and two other U.S. Navy ships arrived in the
Persian Gulf Sunday, as Iraqi troops mobilized to protect their country from a
wave of Sunni insurgents taking over cities, and threatening the nation's
capital. The USS George H.W. Bush-- accompanied by the guided-missile cruiser
USS Philippine Sea and the guided-missile destroyer USS Truxtun -- was ordered to the Persian Gulf Saturday to protect American lives and
interests [oil pipelines] in the region.
Iraq Air Force Strikes Positions as Obama Sends
Warship 15 Jun 2014 Iraqi military
helicopters attacked positions held by Sunni Muslim militants north of Baghdad
as the U.S. moved an aircraft carrier into the Persian Gulf for possible air
strikes to support the Shiite-led government...The carrier USS George H.W. Bush,
which has been in the North Arabian Sea, will provide "additional flexibility
should military options be required to protect American lives, citizens and
interests in Iraq," the Pentagon said yesterday in announcing its deployment. It
was accompanied by the guided-missile cruiser USS Philippine Sea and the
guided-missile destroyer USS Truxtun, said the Pentagon press secretary, Rear
Admiral John Kirby.
Tony Blair backs another intervention in
Iraq 15 Jun 2014 Violent insurgency
in Iraq is the "predictable" result of the west's failure to intervene in Syria,
not of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, [Bush poodle] Tony Blair declares in a renewed
call for military action. The former prime minister rejected as "bizarre"
arguments that Iraq would be more stable and peaceful today if the US-backed
war, which claimed the lives of 179 UK personnel, had not happened. And he said
that unless the international community was prepared to overcome public
reluctance and confront the extremists "hard, with force", the consequences
would be more serious still.
Iraqi Sunni scholars: Iraqi rebels, not ISIS, who face the
Iraqi army 14 Jun 2014 The
Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq (AMSI) said on Friday that describing the
rebels who drove the Iraqi army from several cities as operatives of the Islamic
State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) is incorrect. They decried the
designations as an attempt to abort the uprising in the country. In the
statement reported by the Jordanian Assabeel newspaper, AMSI said that
the ISIS label is a clear distortion which does not change the reality that
Iraqi rebels are the main component of this uprising...Despite claims that it
was the ISIS which took over the cities and towns, several Iraqi sources have
pointed out that tribal rebels as well as other Iraqi fighters constitute the
main force currently fighting the Iraqi army, in addition to some affiliated to
ISIS.
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