CIA Fooling Obama by Wrong Intelligence on Iraq

(FNA)- Abdel Bari Atwan, the editor-in-chief of Rai al-Youm newspaper, revealed that the CIA has conveyed wrong intelligence to US President Barack Obama on the situation in Mosul when it was surrounded by the ISIL terrorists.

"The CIA has several times given wrong reports to Barack Obama, in which it underlined successful airstrikes against the ISIL in Mosul and said that the strikes had weakened the terrorists," Atwan wrote on Saturday.

"Just a few days after the reports and the US president and secretary of defense's repeated claims in this regard, the ISIL occupied Ramadi in Iraq and Tadmur in Syria," he added.

Atwan said that the US military officials who forge the intelligence, are fooling themselves and their leaders and acting in favor of the ISIL and "that's why the US plans fail one after another".

His remarks came as battlefield reports in Iraq also said in May that the US and coalition forces conducted eight airstrikes near Tikrit, but they hit the popular forces' positions instead of ISIL.

Also, in February, an Iraqi provincial official lashed out at the western countries and their regional allies for supporting Takfiri terrorists in Iraq, revealing that the US airplanes still continue to airdrop weapons and foodstuff for the ISIL terrorists.

"The US planes have dropped weapons for the ISIL terrorists in the areas under ISIL control and even in those areas that have been recently liberated from the ISIL control to encourage the terrorists to return to those places," Coordinator of Iraqi popular forces Jafar al-Jaberi told FNA.

He noted that eyewitnesses in Al-Havijeh of Kirkuk province had witnessed the US airplanes dropping several suspicious parcels for ISIL terrorists in the province.

"Two coalition planes were also seen above the town of Al-Khas in Diyala and they carried the Takfiri terrorists to the region that has recently been liberated from the ISIL control," Al-Jaberi said.

Meantime, Head of Iraqi Parliament's National Security and Defense Committee Hakem al-Zameli also disclosed that the anti-ISIL coalition's planes have dropped weapons and foodstuff for the ISIL in Salahuddin, Al-Anbar and Diyala provinces.

In January, al-Zameli underlined that  the coalition is the main cause of ISIL's survival in Iraq.

"There are proofs and evidence for the US-led coalition's military aid to ISIL terrorists through air(dropped cargoes)," he told FNA at the time.