This follows an initial executive order signed by President Donald Trump placing a temporary ban on seven Muslim-dominant countries with Iraq being one of them.
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“We escaped from Daesh (Islamic State) in order to have a chance to live and now we came here and they have cut the aid”. Because this is exactly the kind of world they want to inhabit.
Because of its role in fighting IS, Iraq is worthy of special treatment rather than restrictions, Shwairid said.
“If anything it’s going to antagonize the narratives of terrorists”.
More so, the USA military could be impacted by the executive order. Those countries are Sudan, Somalia, Yemen, Libya, Iraq, Iran, and Syria.
“I’ve always felt that we owed him a debt that wouldn’t be very hard for us to repay and that’s why it’s disappointing to see this”, said Friedman, who also served in the Obama administration.
The US-led coalition releases daily press reports on coalition air strikes against ISIS. I think it will be good for the Russians and good for the Americans if ISIS is thoroughly decimated. They say the dead included the 8-year-old daughter of Anwar al-Awlaki, the fiery American cleric and al-Qaida supporter killed in Yemen in a 2011 USA drone strike.
President Donald Trump’s executive order on refugees and travelers from predominantly Muslim nations has caused a firestorm in the United States, with mass protests erupting at airports nationwide Saturday.
The memorandum further directs the Secretary of Defense and the persons with whom he must consult to gather “all information in the possession of the Federal Government relevant to the defeat of ISIS and its affiliates”. And, in fact, the Muslim world that ISIS has thoroughly and completely destroyed. The extremist group still controls the western side of the city. “People have been talking about this for a long time, like many years”. Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the planner of the brutal attacks in Paris in November 2015, was born in Belgium. But NSEERS also said that men on visas from certain countries who were already in the United States also had to go to INS offices and register. Sixteen of the 19 hijackers in the September 11, 2001 attacks came from Saudi Arabia.
The Iraqi government will “explain that Iraq as a sovereign country will be forced to reciprocate, and that would affect negatively cooperation, including military cooperation in the war” on Islamic State, a second lawmaker said.
It is still unclear that will many more countries be added to the list.
If a group like ISIS were to attempt to send operatives from overseas, the proposed immigration controls could be circumnavigated.
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Despite the strong rhetoric and anti-American sentiment in response to Trump’s decision, lawmaker Jabbouri says it would be hard for Iraq to approve and implement such a ban given the essential role the USA plays in both its military and humanitarian efforts.
