This post has been updated.
Kurdish officials reported that he U.S. on Thursday night bombed ISIS targets in northern Iraq in an attempt to help free residents of two Kurdish towns seized by the insurgents, according to the New York Times.
Pentagon press secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby quickly denied the report.
Press reports that US has conducted airstrikes in Iraq completely false. No such action taken.
— Rear Adm. John Kirby (@PentagonPresSec) August 7, 2014
According to the Times, Kurdish television reported the bombings Thursday night.
ABC News reported that the U.S. is sending cargo planes with humanitarian supplies to drop to Iraqi citizens trapped in the towns seized by the insurgents.
The Pentagon also denied the reports of air drops.
Tho some news orgs reporting air drops have started, @PentagonPresSec tells @cnn *no* drops or air strikes underway #Iraq
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) August 7, 2014
The White House said earlier on Thursday that President Obama was considering strikes to aid the thousands trapped by the ISIS insurgents.
It was a N.Y. Times report on Iraq after all…that should have been a dead giveaway
You dismiss reporting from the newspaper of record for this country in an offhand manner as if Drudge were reporting it. Being blase isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/08/world/middleeast/obama-weighs-military-strikes-to-aid-trapped-iraqis-officials-say.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=Banner&module=span-ab-top-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news[quote=“TopCat, post:2, topic:8161”]
I know this marks me down as a cranky old codger, but I am disappointed to see a Rear Admiral making announcements via Twitter.
Even with my ucla education I know the difference between had airstrikes and authorized airstrikes; one would indicate a passed act, the other gives permission for a potential act. The iraq war cheerleading squad…er…ny times should not be trusted on iraq ever again. they bombed them with food and water??? please tell me you were kidding.