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BAGHDAD Iranian fighter jets struck extremist
targets in Iraq recently, Iranian and U.S. officials have confirmed, in the latest dis-
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and Syria, where Tehran and Washington find themselves fighting the same enemy in an increasingly public fashion. While there is no direct c oordination between I r a n and the United States, there is
spymaster, Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, the commander of the Quds force who has spent a career in the shadows orchestrating terrorist attacks, has emerged as a p ublic figure. The apparent shift in Iran's
play of Tehran's new willing- effectively a de facto nonag- strategy has been most noness to conduct military oper- gression pact. ticeable in Iraq, where even "We are flying missions U.S. officials acknowledge ations openly on foreign battlefields rather than covertly over Iraq, w e c oordinate t he decisive role o f I r a n iand through proxies. with th e I r aqi g overnment an-backed militias, particuT he shift stems i n p a r t as we conduct those," Rear larly in protecting Baghdad from Iran's deepening mil- Adm. John Kirby,the Penta- from an assault by the Islamic itary role in Iraq in the war gon spokesman, said 'Itres- State. against the Sunni extremists day. "It's up to the Iraqi govIraqi leaders say that Tehof the Islamic State. But it also
ernment to de-conflict that
reflects a profound change in Iran's strategy, stepping from the shadows into a more overt use of hard power as it pro-
airspace." Washington to offer help in a F or months, I ra n h a s crisis. When the Islamic State flashed its military prowess stormed Mosul, Iraq's secaround the region. It has of- ond-largest city, in June and fered weapons to the Leba- moved south toward Baghnese army and supported the dad, President Barack Obama Shiite Houthi rebels in Yemen took a measured approach. who have taken over the capi- But Iran jumped right in. It
motes Shiite influence around
the region. Iranian and Pentagon of-
ficials acknowledged that Iran had stepped up its military operations in Iraq late last month, using 1970s-era
Si sil.rva
ence of interests in both Iraq
tal, Sanaa. In Syria, Hezbollah, the
Iranian-supported Shiite mil-
fighter jets to bomb targets in
itant movement, and the Ira-
a buffer zone that extends 25
nian paramilitary Al Quds force, have kept President
miles into Iraq. The new military approach highlights an unusual conflu-
Bashar Assad in power. And in Iraq, Iran's once-elusive
ran often has been faster than
was the first country to send
weapons to the Kurds in the north, and moved quickly to protect Baghdad. Ali Khedery, a former U.S. official in Iraq, said, "For the Iranians, really, the gloves are off."
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A woman, right, yells at a New York City Police officer during a protest after it was announced Wednesday that the police officer involved in the death of Eric Garner is not being indicted. A grand jury cleared the white New York City police officer Wednesday in the videotaped chokehold death of
Garner, an unarmed black man,who had been stopped onsuspicion of selling loose, untaxed ciga-
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Protests erupt asofficer cleared in chokehold case;fedsto investigate By Tom Haysand Colleen Long
"Hands up — don't choke!"
ping his arm around Garner's Garner's mother, Gwen neck in what appeared to be a N EW YORK — A g r a n d Carr, said the grand jury deci- chokehold, which is banned jury cleared a white police sion "just tore me up." under New York Police De"I couldn't see how a grand partment policy. o fficer W ednesday i n t h e videotaped chokeholddeath jury could vote and say there The heavyset Garner, who of an unarmed black man was no probable cause," she had asthma, was heard repeatstopped for selling loose, un- said. "What were they look- edly gasping, "I can't breathe!" taxed cigarettes, triggering ing at? Were they looking at protests in the streets by hun- the same video the rest of the dreds of New Yorkers who world was looking at'?" likened the case to the deadly In his first public compolice shooting in Ferguson, ments, Pantaleo said he prays Missouri. for Garner's family and hopes The Associated Press
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de m o nstrations they accepthis condolences.
mounted, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said federal
authorities would conduct a civil rights investigation into the July 17 death of Eric Gar-
ner at the hands of Officer Daniel Pantaleo. Staten Island District Attor-
"I became a police officer to help people and to protect those who can't protect themselves," he said in the statement. "It is never my intention to harm anyone, and I feel
very bad about the death of Mr. Garner." Police union officials and
ney Daniel Donovan said the grand jury found "no reason- Pantaleo's lawyer argued that able cause" to bring charges, the officer used a takedown but unlike the chief prosecu- move taught by the police detor in the Ferguson case, he partment, not a banned magave no details on how the neuver, because Garner was panel arrived at its decision. resisting arrest. They said his The grand jury could have poor health was the main reaconsidered a range of charges, son he died. from reckless endangerment Mayor Bill de Blasio canto murder. celed an appearance at the P rotesters gathered i n tree lighting and met with Times Square and converged G arner's f ather a n d o t h on the heavily secured area er community leaders. At a around the annual Rocke- Staten Island church, he said, feller Center Christmas tree "There's a lot of pain and fruslighting with a combination tration in the room this eveof professional-looking signs ning," but he called on protestand hand-scrawled placards erstoremain peaceful. reading, "Black lives matter" A video shot by an onlooker and "Fellow white people, and widely viewed on the Inwake up." And in the Staten ternetshowed the 43-year-old Island neighborhood where Garner telling a group of poGarner died, people react- lice officers to leave him alone ed with angry disbelief and as they tried to arrest him. chanted, "I can't breathe!" and Pantaleo responded by wrap-
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