Panetta said the Pentagon will soon act against the militias. “Secondly, to do what we have to do unilaterally, to be able to go after those threats as well, and we’re doing that,” he said.
- General Lloyd Austin, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, did not comment on what specific measures unilateral action might involve, Reuters reports today. “I think what the secretary was pointing to was we’ll do what’s necessary to protect ourselves and that could include a host of things … so we’ll just leave it at that,” Austin said.
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Three separate Iraqi militias are believed to be involved in attacks on U.S. occupation troops. In particular, officials point to the Hezbollah Brigades, said to be supported by Iran and trained by Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard and its special operations wing, the Quds Force.