u.s. scrambles to help iraq fight off militants as baghdad is threatened

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U.S. Scrambles to Help Iraq Fight Off Militants as Baghdad Is Threatened

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I dont rule out anything, President Obama said of Iraq, speaking Thursday in the Oval Office. CreditGabriellaDemczuk/The New York Times Continue reading the main story Share This Page

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WASHINGTON The White House, confronted by an unexpected crisis on a battlefield it thought ithad left behind, scrambled Thursday to reassure Iraq that it would help its beleaguered army fend offmilitants who have overrun much of the country and now threaten Baghdad.

Recognizing what one official described as an urgent emergency situation, President Obama and hisaides moved on multiple fronts. A senior official said the president was actively considering Americanairstrikes against the militant groups. Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. telephoned Prime Minister

Nuri Kamal al-Maliki to express American support. And Pentagon officials briefed lawmakers about what one senator later described as a grave situation.

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Russia Sees American Adventurism in Iraq BehindCurrent Conflict JUNE 12, 2014

In his only public comments on Iraq, Mr. Obama said his national security staff was meeting aroundthe clock. But the frenzy of activity has yet to produce a tangible American response attesting tohow swiftly this crisis has erupted and how it has left a stunned White House groping for a response.

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PLAY VIDEO | 0:39 Boehner Slams Obamas Response to IraqBoehner Slams Obamas Response to Iraq House Speaker John A. Boehner commented on the crisis in Iraq on Thursday and attacked President Obamasresponse to the escalating violence, saying the president was taking a nap. CreditAlex Wong/Getty Images

The chaotic situation in Iraq showed no sign of letup on Thursday as emboldened Sunni militants whoseized two important Iraqi cities this week moved closed to Baghdad while Kurdish forces poured intothe strategic northern city of Kirkuk after it was evacuated by government forces.

Airstrikes were only one of several options being weighed by the president, according to the senior

official, who cautioned that the president had made no decision on military action. The airstrikes, theofficial said, could be delivered either by unmanned drones or warplanes.

I dont rule out anything, Mr. Obama said, speaking in the Oval Office after meeting with PrimeMinister Tony Abbott of Australia, because we do have a stake in making sure that these jihadists arenot getting a permanent foothold in either Iraq or Syria, for that matter. He said he was watching thefast- moving events with a lot of concern.

For Mr. Obama, ordering airstrikes would be a symbolically momentous step, returning the UnitedStates to a combat role in Iraq two and a half years after he pulled out the last American soldier,ending the nations involvement in a war that left more than 4,400 Americans dead.

The possibility of coming to Iraqs rescue raises a host of thorny ques tions for Mr. Obama, who hassteadfastly resisted being drawn into sectarian strife in Iraq or its neighbor, Syria. Republicanlawmakers accused him of being caught flat-footed by the crisis and of hastening this outcome by notleaving an adequate American force behind after 2011.

Reports that Iran has sent its paramilitary Quds Force to help the struggling Iraqi Army battle themilitant group, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, raised the awkward possibility that the UnitedStates could find itself allied with Iran in shoring up an unpopular Shiite government in Baghdad. The White House said it was aware of the reports, but did not confirm them.

Mr. Obama insisted he had been monitoring the threat from Sunni militant groups for severalmonths. The United States, he said, had supplied Iraq with military equipment and intelligence.


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Until now, though, the White House has rebuffed several requests from Mr. Maliki for the UnitedStates to conduct airstrikes against the staging areas of the militant groups, north and west ofBaghdad, where extremists have flowed across the border from Syria.

In the past two days, Mr. Obama acknowledged, it was clear that the United States needed to gofurther. Iraqs going to need more help, he said. Its going to need more help from us, and its goingto need more help from the international community.

In our consultations with the Iraqis, he said, there will be some short -term, immediate things thatneed to be done militarily. But this should be also a wake-up call for th e Iraqi government.

The president said the crisis confirmed his decision articulated in a speech at the United StatesMilitary Academy to reorient American counterterrorism strategy from fighting Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan to a more diffuse set of terrorist groups, some linked with Al Qaeda, thatstretch from the Middle East to North Africa.

On Capitol Hill, however, the images of Baghdad under threat from Islamic militants fanned apolitical firestorm. Speaker John A. Boehner warned that the progress in Iraq was clearly in jeopardy, and said Mr. Obama had been caught taking a nap.


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Having occupied crucial sections of Syria over the past year and more recently seizing vast areas of Iraq, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria controlsterritory greater than many countries and now rivals Al Qaeda as the worlds most powerful jihadist grou p.Related Maps and Multimedia

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Democrats said the strife was the result of former President George W. Bushs misguided invasion ofIraq in 2003. One act of violence provokes another act of violence, said the Representative NancyPelosi, the House minority leader. And here we are.

Senators on the Armed Services Committee emerging from a two-hour, classified briefing on Iraqappeared stunned by what they heard from a senior Pentagon official, two senior Defense Intelligence Agency analysts and the three-star general in charge of security cooperation at the American Embassyin Baghdad.


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Needless to say, its a grave situation, said Senator Bill Nelson, a Florida Democrat.


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WRITE A COMMENT A State Department spokeswoman said American contractors working on foreign military sales had been moved from their base north of Baghdad by their companies. But diplomats and staff membersat the embassy in Baghdad and consulates elsewhere in Iraq had not been moved, according to thespokeswoman, Jen Psaki.

Republicans and some Democrats sharply criticized the Obama administration for not having acredible response to help the Iraqi government.

There is no strategy, said Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, in an interview. Thepresident said he would not rule out anything. Is that a strategy? Is that a way to counter ISIS? hesaid, using the acronym for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.

Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Connecticut Democrat, demanded that the administration provideCongress with both short-term and longer- term options. We need a proposal and recommendationfrom the administration, and so far it has not been provided, he said.
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Mr. Blumenthal also castigated Mr. Maliki for failing to include Sunnis as full partners in hisgovernment, a failure other critics have said has pushed Sunnis into the hands of Islamic militantgroups like ISIS.

Most lawmakers expressed caution in committing to American airstrikes against militant targets, asMr. Maliki has requested. But some said it might be the only way to give the Iraqi security servicestime to reorganize and blunt the militants offensive.

It might be the only way we can give some support so they can regroup, so the Iraqi Army can ge titself together, said Senator Joe Manchin III, a West Virginia Democrat.

CONTINUE READING THE MAIN STORY WRITE A COMMENT While experts said leaving behind a residual force of several thousand American troops would havehelped the Iraqi Army tactically, some doubt it would have prevented the sectarian forces that arethreatening to tear the country into Sunni, Shiite and Kurdish blocs.

In the long run, Im not sure it would have made a difference with the forces pushing for thedisintegration of Iraq, said Gen. Amos Yadlin, a retired head of Israeli military intelligence who isnow the executive director of Israels Institute of National Security Studies.

Andrew J. Tabler, an expert on Syria at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said that

American airstrikes would help them deal with the symptoms of the disease, but the disease is rootedin Syria .

Michael R. Gordon contributed reporting.

A version of this article appears in print on June 13, 2014, on page A1 of the New York edition with the headline: U.S.Scrambles to Help Iraq Fight Off Militants. Order Reprints |Today's Paper |Subscribe

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