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'Iraq is now like a drowning man'
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/10/now-like-drowning-man-2014101395939414516.htmlOn the weekend, the local government in the Sunni-dominated Anbar province sent a written request to the Iraqi parliament, asking it to request US ground troops in an effort to save other towns and cities near Baghdad. ISIL fighters last week overran the town of Hiit in Anbar, and have since besieged dozens of villages around the nearby town of Haditha, which remains under the control of Iraqi forces and anti-ISIL Sunni tribesmen.
Anbar's police chief, Lieutenant General Ahmad Sadak al-Dulaimi, was killed alongside four bodyguards when their convoy was hit by roadside bombs on Sunday, military officials said. He had been fighting ISIL members who were trying to gain control in northern Ramadi.
"There is no solution but to get the US military to intervene on the ground," a senior security adviser to the federal government told Al Jazeera on condition of anonymity. "Iraq is now like a drowning man who has no choice but to ask for help."
Although there are 53,000 Iraqi soldiers in Anbar, along with several strategic military bases, "they could not stop the militants' advance… What we really need are US elite troops," the adviser added.
Anbar's police chief, Lieutenant General Ahmad Sadak al-Dulaimi, was killed alongside four bodyguards when their convoy was hit by roadside bombs on Sunday, military officials said. He had been fighting ISIL members who were trying to gain control in northern Ramadi.
"There is no solution but to get the US military to intervene on the ground," a senior security adviser to the federal government told Al Jazeera on condition of anonymity. "Iraq is now like a drowning man who has no choice but to ask for help."
Although there are 53,000 Iraqi soldiers in Anbar, along with several strategic military bases, "they could not stop the militants' advance… What we really need are US elite troops," the adviser added.
