Destroy Islamic-State IS by ‘Any-Means-Necessary’ EYE-FOR-AN-EYE ! MADE-THE-WHOLE-WORLD-BLIND ))))))))) -leopod Around 30-Countries and International Organizations hold-meet ))))))))) The world’s top diplomats pledged on Monday to support Iraq in its fight against Islamic State (IS) militants by “any means necessary”, including “appropriate military assistance”, as leaders stressed the urgency of the crisis. Representatives from around 30 countries and international organisations, including the United States, Russia and China, gathered in Paris as the brutal beheading over the weekend of a third Western hostage focussed participants’ minds. They stressed IS extremists were “a threat not only to Iraq but also to the entire international community” and underscored the “urgent need” to remove them from Iraq, where they control some 40 per cent of its territory. However, the final statement made no mention of Syria, where the extremists hold a quarter of the country and where the regime of Bashar Al-Assad still had friends around the Paris conference table, including Russia. Opening the conference, French President Francois Hollande emphasised there was “no time to lose” in the fight against the jihadists. Iraqi President Fuad Masum also stressed the urgency of the crisis, saying there was a risk the militants could overrun more countries in the region. Ten Arab states, including Saudi Arabia, are among the countries backing the coalition. However, Iran, which was not invited to the conference, said it had rejected US overtures to help in the fight against the militants. “Right from the start, the United States asked through its ambassador in Iraq whether we could cooperate,” Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a statement on his official website. — AFP
Posted on: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 06:02:50 +0000
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