"We were not always able to attribute the casualties that we had to Iranian activity, although many times we suspected it was Iranian activity, even though we did not necessarily have the forensics to support that."
"It's organized so badly that when the Pentagon at the end of every year goes to ask for more money for the next year... they invent the numbers because they have no audit trail. They submit all those numbers to the Congress, saying we spent this on that, but they don't actually have the documents. The sheer quantity of the numbers makes it impossible to detect anything like fraud or theft because the books are all wrong at every single level of the system."
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro tried to explain the message behind his eyebrow-raising 'Holocaust can be forgiven' phrase was gravely distorted, and the following uproar is used to cause bad blood with his "Jewish friends."
"My speech was never meant to be used in a historical context," and its other interpretations only serve those "who want to push me away from my Jewish friends," Bolsonaro wrote in a statement, shared by Israel's envoy to Brazil, Yossi Shelley, on social media.
Iraq announced that negotiations are underway with Iran and Syria to develop a transnational railway line linking the three countries. Iraqi Republic Railways Company chief, Salib al-Hussaini, said a summit will be held between the countries to further discuss the matter, the Arabic-language Al-Sumeria news website reported.
The comments made on the sidelines of the joint Syrian-Iraqi committee held in Damascus came a week after Iranian First Vice President Es'haq Jahangiri spoke of an initiative to link the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean.
"We will connect the Persian Gulf from Iraq to Syria and the Mediterranean via railway and road," said Jahangiri, making reference to the construction of a railway linking the Iranian Shalamcheh border region to the Iraqi city of Basra.
Speaking last December, the Director General of the Railway and Technical Structures Department at the Islamic Republic of Iran Railways (RAI) Mohammad Mousavi said Iran was planning to build a movable railway bridge over the Arvand River as part of the Shalamcheh-Basra project. Mousavi said the project would effectively link the Iranian cities of Khorramshahr and Abadan along with the Imam Khomeini Port to the Iraqi city.
The railway project was agreed to last month when Iran and Iraq signed five memoranda of understanding for the expansion of bilateral cooperation in various economic and healthcare sectors.
Observers have described the new agreements as a sign of Baghdad's serious intention of not being "party to the system of sanctions against Iran" as Prime Minister Abdul-Mahdi said earlier in February.
Syrian Prime Minister Imad Khamis said the "historic" agreements covered cooperation in fields of industry, trade and agriculture. He called the agreement "a message to the world on the reality of Syrian-Iranian cooperation."
The report also revealed that despite hand holding by the most powerful militaries in the world, the Saudi Kingdom has dropped the ball in putting it all to good use. One example refers to the Saudi armed forces failure to make use of intelligence provided by US drones, which have been employed to gather intelligence on Houthi controlled territory:If the RSAF benefits from American support, in the form of advice in the field of targeting [by American drones], the practice of Close Air Support (CAS) is recent and appears poorly understood by these crews.This seems to be in direct contradiction to a statement made to the Intercept by a CENTCOM spokesperson, who reportedly said that the US does not provide targeting support to Saudi Arabia. CENTCOM's email statement supposedly underlines that the US' role is "advisory only."
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