{"id":17047,"date":"2019-05-05T18:02:26","date_gmt":"2019-05-05T16:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/?p=17047"},"modified":"2019-05-05T18:46:10","modified_gmt":"2019-05-05T16:46:10","slug":"fna-blackwater-trains-isil-terrorists-at-us-base-in-western-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/?p=17047","title":{"rendered":"Blackwater Trains ISIL Terrorists at US Base in Western Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ntDesc\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">FNA &#8211; The notorious US mercenary firm Blackwater has returned to Iraq to train thousands of ISIL terrorists in the Washington-occupied Ein al-Assad base in al-Anbar province, a Lebanese newspaper reported.<\/div>\n<div class=\"ntText\">\n<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Arabic-language al-Akhbar newspaper reported on Saturday that Blackwater, along with other security firms, has returned to Iraq since the start of 2018 after Washington&#8217;s heavy pressures on Baghdad to issue a relevant license.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the report, a source close to the US charge de affairs in Iraq Judy Hood said that Blackwater has transferred the US military equipment from Jordan to Western al-Anbar province in full coordination with Ein al-Assad base, adding that the company is now training the ISIL terrorists in the base.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meantime, al-Akhbar quoted field sources as saying that trucks carrying ISIL militants, escorted by the US vehicles, were transferred from the town of Baqouz in Deir Ezzur to Ein al-Assad amid clashes in Baqouz region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Iraq&#8217;s security experts had earlier accused the US of training hundreds of ISIL terrorists in Al-Anbar province after relocating them from Syria to Iraq to prepare them for a new round of insecurity in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Between 700 to 1,000 ISIL militants are being trained by the US troops in al-Anbar province,&#8221; the Arabic-language al-Maloumeh news website quoted Head of Badr Organization&#8217;s Office in Al-Anbar Province Qusai al-Anbari as saying in March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">He pointed to the special conditions considered for the ISIL militants, and said that the US troops have specified redlines for third parties to avoid approaching the region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is while the Arabic-language Arabi Post recently disclosed that the US troops had been intensively training the ISIL terrorists in two military bases of Ein al-Assad and al-Habanieh in al-Anbar province under name of desert ghosts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The sources said the US Army troops had equipped the ISIL terrorists with 200 military and non-military vehicles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FNA &#8211; The notorious US mercenary firm Blackwater has returned to Iraq to train thousands of ISIL terrorists in the Washington-occupied Ein al-Assad base in al-Anbar province, a Lebanese newspaper reported. 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