By AFP – Dec 10,2016 – JORDAN TIMES
Members of the Iraqi Army ride in a tank during clashes with the Daesh terror group militants, south of Mosul, Iraq, on Saturday (Reuters photo)
WASHINGTON — As President Barack Obama prepares to leave office and step down as commander-in-chief of America’s military, a flap has erupted over the secretive commandos who have become his go-to counterterrorist force across the globe.
Obama’s foreign military policy has centred on the targeted killings of terror suspects — usually by drone strikes — and he has ordered such actions in countries including Iraq, Syria, Somalia, Yemen and Libya.
But when it comes to ground action, the president has steered away from large-scale troop deployments and favoured the light footprint offered by America’s hush-hush Special Operations Command (SOCOM).
The current kerfuffle stems from a Washington Post story that said SOCOM, specifically its super-secret wing called the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), is being granted new powers to track and potentially attack terror cells around the world.
The post said JSOC could in some cases even operate unilaterally, without having to go through the regular US military command structure responsible for operations across particular parts of the world.
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Well, reports from private sources in Iraq tell us that these ‘secret forces’ are not only fighting terrorism, but actually assisting terrorists as well. Reports from the time of the US occupation of Iraq for instance give reports such as ‘a lone US tank was video-taped when it shot and damaged a Shia shrine’ (in order to create Shia-Sunni conflict). Too many such incidents were reported for it to be a ‘coincidence’.