The United
States army is sharing a military base with Iranian-back militia in Iraq,
Bloomberg has reported.
Both nations
forces are using the Taqqadum military base in Anbar, where President Barack
Obama has just sent an extra 450 soldiers to help train local forces fighting
the Islamic State terrorist group, the report said.
And it added
that some of the same Iranian-back paramilitary troops at the base had killed
US soldiers in the past.
Senate Armed
Services chairman John McCain told the WSJ: "It’s an insult to the
families of the American soldiers that were wounded and killed in battles in
which the Shia militias were the enemy. Now, providing arms to them and
supporting them, it’s very hard for those families to understand."
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