The deployment is meant to “assure and enhance the defense of Saudi Arabia,” a spokesman said, following attacks on the kingdom’s oil infrastructure last month.
The Pentagon is sending about 2,000 more troops to Saudi Arabia, including squadrons of fighter jets and air defense missile batteries, Defense Department officials said Friday.
Defense Secretary Mark Esper authorized the deployment of two fighter squadrons, two batteries of Patriot missiles, a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense missile system, and an Air Force headquarters unit “at the request of U.S. Central Command,” Pentagon spokesperson Jonathan Hoffman said in a statement.
The deployment is meant to “assure and enhance the defense of Saudi Arabia,” Hoffman said, following attacks on the kingdom’s oil infrastructure last month that the U.S. and European allies have blamed on Iran.
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The Pentagon is sending about 2,000 more troops to Saudi Arabia, including squadrons of fighter jets and air defense missile batterieshttps://t.co/IYAYJvgLLZ
— POLITICO (@politico) October 11, 2019
Oh ok. Might be a good idea. But I thought we were betraying the Kurds because it was so important to get our troops out of the Middle East. https://t.co/GHptVqeuxb
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) October 11, 2019
BREAKING: Amid Pres. Trump's decision to remove US troops from northern Syria and his vocal criticisms of US military presence in Middle East, the Pentagon announces the deployment of more US troops and weapons to Saudi Arabia “to assure and enhance the defense of Saudi Arabia.”
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) October 11, 2019
The Saudi’s pay better.
So all the Kurds had to do to not be sold out was brutally murder a US-based journalist?
— George Nickle (@GeorgeNickle3) October 11, 2019
Saudi Arabia trademarks and turkey Trump tower there's a pattern here.
— David Volsic (@dvolsic) October 11, 2019
The President sold out a trusted friend and coddled a dictator to redeploy less than 50 men….and then sends 2000 to a dubious ally? If only someone had told us that this man was unfit and unmoored. https://t.co/ysrWhKXg00
— Bryan McGrath (@ConsWahoo) October 12, 2019
The United States of Blackwater. https://t.co/wM1y0OztoI
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) October 12, 2019
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