Who Else — Besides Americans — Are Flying Fighter Jets In Iraq?

[Uncle Joe]

http://www.businessinsider.com/who-bombed-isis-militants-on-august-7-2014-8

Last month a Pentagon official told The Hill that the U.S. believed Iranian pilots were in the air in Iraq while denying that Russian personnel were operating in the area. But diplomatic sources told The Daily Beast that "Russian pilots will fly the planes due to a lack of Iraqi pilots with the proper training."

(Fittingly, geopolitical expert Ian Bremmer of the Eurasia group told Bloomberg TV this morning that the U.S. was "fighting shoulder-to-shoulder, as it were, with the Russians and the Iranians.&quot

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A former high-ranking CIA official in Baghdad told Jeff Stein of Newsweek that Turkish jets carried out the airstrikes. “There’s no question about it,” he said, adding that "certainly we are giving them targeting data.”

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"Iran has used its own Air Force to attack ISIS since the beginning of the group's offensive, but mostly to keep them away from the Iranian border," Khoury said. "Syria has likewise conducted air strikes on ISIS targets on the Iraqi side of their shared border."

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/who-bombed-isis-militants-on-august-7-2014-8#ixzz39rllcr7T

There is more on the link.

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. And Israel will jump in if they feel threatened.

Strange times call for strange bedfellows...so to speak.