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© ANP. A Dutch F-16 in action during the Air Force days.
Six Questions The government sent eight F-16s and 380 soldiers to Iraq to deal with terror movement battle IS. Why mixes Netherlands in this conflict? An explanation on the basis of six questions.
Why does the Netherlands arms against IS?
Firstly the Netherlands wants to contribute to stability in Iraq, on the other hand, the government believes that should be fought because Islamic IS Caliphate attraction for European Muslims. Deputy Prime Lodewijk Asscher talked tonight about “beheadings, mass executions, the desperate refugees on our retinas are inscribed. The government gives the military contribution answered the call of President Obama to oppose IS. An international fist Asscher: “We are on the side of the Americans.”
The Deputy Prime Minister said that the threat of IS does not stop at the borders of Iraq and Syria. A fear among Dutch politicians that Dutch Muslims who have traveled to the Middle East to join IS upon returning attacks will commit here. IS According Asscher ‘ambition is to open up our way of life the attack globally. In the Article 100 letter to the Lower House, the government says: “The ring instability at the external borders of the EU and the NATO alliance, and the attraction of this on EU residents, ensures that the threat of even ISIS within Europe increases
The purpose is twofold:. stopping the advance of IS in Iraq and the threat of IS containment towards the rest of the world.
How much material and manpower sends Netherlands?
The government has decided to take to the air attacks on IS-targets in Iraq. Part with eight F-16s Six units can come into action, two planes go along as backup, in case other devices in technical trouble. Of crew and military support to travel some 250 soldiers with it.
Netherlands sends up to 130 military trainers that Iraqi soldiers and Kurdish fighters started training and support in their fight against the Islamic terrorist movement. Under no circumstances Dutch soldiers will be involved in fighting on the ground, said Minister Jeanine Hennis defense tonight. The training of Iraqis and Kurds will take place outside conflict zone.
In total, therefore, to eight fighter jets and 380 military personnel.
When departing the Dutch F-16s and how long are they?
The fighters can in a week the first bombing of IS-performing targets, Hennis said. The F-16s and military personnel are likely to be stationed in Jordan. This country is one of the five Arab countries that the United States supports the fight against IS in Syria.
Netherlands, the F-16s’ for up to a year, “writes the Cabinet. The training of Iraqis and Kurds should go last one year. Netherlands is based on the American estimates that “breaking the military power of IS in the short term” will take. Six to twelve months However, Minister Hennis taking the reservation that “the campaign plan to combat IS still in development.”
Start date: October. End date: aiming for the end of September 2015
What are the F-16′s doing exactly in Iraq
In short: throw bombs at IS. The goal is to harass’ tactical locations IS ‘example’ camps or command and control installations. These air strikes are carried out with “precision weapons”. “These can be used against targets whose exact location is known beforehand or by using objective evidence on the ground or in the air.” Go Netherlands provide air support to Iraqi and Kurdish forces during combat operations against IS.
Led by the Americans’ air power ‘(the F-16s, ed.) Coordinated by the’ Joint Forces Air Component Command in Kuwait. This command center Dutch staff officers are also appointed.
The 130 Dutch trainers will provide training ‘in barracks and training locations in parts of Iraq that are not owned by IS. ” “The Dutch trainers will not count as mentors in combat situations. combat boots on the ground is therefore no ‘
In other words. The F-16s go camps and command centers of IS destroy the Kurds and Iraqis provide air support.
Why does bombing in Iraq, but not in Syria?
As the Iraqi government has asked for support and the Syrian government does not. The government considers the government in Baghdad as ‘legitimate’ and the Iraqi request to the UN for military support in the fight against IS so as a legal mandate, “a legal basis for the deployment of Dutch troops in Iraq.”
Such a mandate is lacking for the American show (in collaboration with five Arab countries) in Syria. The question whether there is a mandate under international law for military deployment in Syria is “no international consensus,” writes the Cabinet. However, the Netherlands has some sympathy for the American efforts. “In practice, there are no borders between Iraq and Syria, and the risk that IS from Syria poses a direct threat to Iraq.”
Making matters even more difficult: Syrian President Assad seems to welcome the American bombs but the Netherlands does prefer to do business with the dictator, that since 2011 the uprising against his regime violently head press <. / p>
The government requires that Americans use the argument “collective self-defense” to IS also to attack. Syria On this reasoning sticking according Netherlands legal snags. Prime Minister Rutte and his team have learned from the past: they do not want to be like in 2003 when the United States invaded Iraq to deal with Saddam Hussein to support a war to later learn that the arguments were therefore unfounded. ‘At the moment we can not say whether there is self-defense as international legal mandate. With certainty Dutch efforts is because of this now limited to Iraq. ”
How much will it cost
The government writes: “On a mission duration of twelve months, with F-16s and training teams are the costs expected to exceed 150 million. ” The costs thus seem to overlook, it is a fraction of the 260 billion euros in 2015, the government expects to spend in total.
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