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Crisis deepens in Iraq

US ready for 'precise' military action; Obama to send up to 300 'military advisers'

AFP, Washington
LIS President Barack Obama yesterday said he was ready to send 300 military advisors to Iraq and if necessary' to take "targeted” and "precise" military'action to counter radical Sunni fighters.
Obama said Washington was ready to deploy' advisors to study how to
train and equip Iraqi forces and had already increased its surveillance and intelligence capabilities in the country'.
The LIS teams could set up joint operations centres in Baghdad and near Mosul, the northern Iraqi city that fell to extremist rebels last week, the president suggested.
"Going forward, we will be pre-
pared to take targeted and precise military' action if and when we determine that the situation on the ground requires it," Obama said at the White House after meeting senior members of his national security team.
Obama said it was a good investment for Washington to intervene in
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Iraq if it prevented Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters establishing bases which could eventually pose a threat to the West.
But he repeatedly insisted US troops would not be going back in to direct combat in Iraq, two-a nd-a-ha If years after the last American soldier came home from the war.
Obama did however pledge to help Iraq bolster its own forces against the advance of the radical Sunni fighters.
"We're prepared to send a small number of additional American military advisers, up to 300, assess how we can best train, advise and support Iraqi security forces going forward," Obama said.
The president also renewed US warnings that only non-sectarian leadership could rescue Iraq from its current plight -- an apparent implicit rebuke of Shiite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.
"Shia, Sunni, Kurds, all Iraqis must
have confidence that they can advance their interests and aspirations through the political process rather than through violence," Obama said.
" It is clear, though, that only leaders that can govern with an inclusive agenda are going to be able to truly bring the Iraqi people together and help them through this crisis."
Obama warned that he would not authorise political operations that were designed to promote one sect in Iraq over another.
And he said that he would dispatch Secretary of State John Kerry to Europe and the Middle East this weekend to consult with IIS allies on the next steps forward on the Iraq crisis.
The White House is also facing pressure from Republican and Democratic hawks in Washington, who are pushing for urgent air strikes to arrest the advance of I sis.
Earlier this week Obama notified Congress up to 275 troops could be
sent to Iraq to provide support and security for personnel and the US embassy in Baghdad. However, neither deployment has a combat role.
The US has ruled out - publicly, at least - cooperating militarily with Shia-dominated Iran, which is poised to increase its involvement in the conflict, reports The Guardian. But Obama said Iran "can play a constructive role" in urging the Iraqi government to move past sectarianism, but should avoid entering the conflict as "solely as an armed force on behalf of the Shia".
"Iran has heard from us," he said. "We have indicated to them it is important for them to avoid steps that might encourage the kind of sectarians slips that might lead to civil war." He warned against Tehran repeating its approach in Syria, where he said Iran entered "hot and heavy on one side".
While Thursday's announcement does not return the US military to a leading role in the Iraq crisis, it risks creating pressure to do so should Isis
retain momentum. Rear Admiral John Kirby, the Pentagon press secretary, said last week that helping break Isis's momentum would be the objective of any prospective US military aid.
In reserve on the deck of the USS George HW Bush are four squadrons of F/A-18 fighter jets, which the Pentagon ordered into the Persian Gulf on Saturday. The advantage of using naval aviators is that they need not require any regional country's permission to fly over foreign territory. Yet senior Pentagon officials warned on Wednesday that the intelligence picture they possess of a rapidly changing Iraqi battlefield still falls short of what is typically necessary for an aerial attack.
The US military rebuilt the Iraqi military from scratch, largely in its image, after Washington fatefully opted to disband it in 2003, a catalyst for the bloody insurgency that killed nearly 4,500 LIS troops. At least 100,000 Iraqi civilians are estimated to have died in