Ketua Tentera memberi amaran Cameron terhadap menggunakan 70,000 'sederhana' angka pemberontak . . .

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nUSANTARa - Kementerian Pertahanan bos (MoD) memberi amaran kepada Perdana Menteri, David Cameron terhadap mendakwa terdapat 70,000 pemberontak Syria sederhana bersedia untuk berjuang Negara Islam (IS, yang sebelum ini ISIS/ISIL), takut penegasan akan echo Iraq Tony Blair "memberkaskan cerdik."

Pendedahan itu dibuat selepas Dewan Rakyat mengundi untuk melanjutkan serangan udara dari Iraq ke Syria, dengan bom pertama jatuh beberapa jam kemudian.

Menurut akhbar Times, angka tentera juga takut tuntutan Cameron apa-apa kuasa yang memberontak boleh membawa Ahli Parlimen untuk salah percaya ada seorang tentera yang sedia dibuat di atas tanah di Syria, oleh itu mempengaruhi undi.

Military chiefs warned Cameron against 

using 70,000 ‘moderate’ rebels figure . . .

Ministry of Defence (MoD) bosses warned Prime Minister David Cameron against claiming there are 70,000 moderate Syrian rebels ready to fight Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL), fearing the assertion would echo Tony Blair’s Iraq “dodgy dossier.”

The revelation comes after the House of Commons voted to extend airstrikes from Iraq into Syria, with the first bombs falling hours later.

According to the Times newspaper, military figures also feared Cameron’s claim of such a rebel force may lead MPs to wrongly believe there was a ready-made army on the ground in Syria, therefore influencing the vote.

Ini membawa kepada kebimbangan dalam jawatan tertinggi dalam pertubuhan itu tentera bahawa apa-apa tuntutan yang kemudiannya menjadi perang Syria "memberkaskan cerdik," bergema 2003 tuntutan sekarang dibukti palsu Tony Blair bahawa rejim Saddam Hussein boleh melancarkan senjata pemusnah besar-besaran dalam tempoh 45 minit.

"Terdapat pegawai Kementerian Pertahanan yang mungkin berasa berparut selepas memberkaskan sebelumnya," sumber kanan Whitehall memberitahu Times.

"Mereka melihat teks yang terkini dan berkata [angka 70.000] boleh menjadi '45 minit masa dokumen ini.

This led to concerns in the upper echelons of the military establishment that such a claim would later become the Syria war’s “dodgy dossier,” echoing Tony Blair’s now debunked 2003 claims that Saddam Hussein’s regime could launch weapons of mass destruction within 45 minutes.

“There were Ministry of Defence officials who maybe felt scarred after the previous dossier,” a senior Whitehall source told the Times.

“They looked at the latest text and said that [the 70,000 figure] could become the ‘45 minutes’ moment of this document.

"Kebimbangan ini adalah ... [bahawa angka 70,000] akan menjadi satu perkara yang semua orang ke selak, seperti 45 minit membuat tuntutan."

Beberapa pengkritik tuntutan Cameron adalah antara partinya sendiri.

Semasa perbahasan sepuluh-jam pada hari Rabu, Julian Lewis, Tory pengerusi berpengaruh Pertahanan Jawatankuasa Pilihan, memberitahu Ahli Parlimen: "Daripada perlu kumpulan-kumpulan yang cerdik, kita kini mempunyai pejuang sederhana batalion palsu."

“The concern was … [that the 70,000 figure] will become the one thing that everyone latches on to, like the 45 minutes claim.”

Some of the most vocal critics of Cameron’s claim were among his own party.

During the ten-hour debate on Wednesday, Julian Lewis, Tory chairman of the influential Defence Select Committee, told MPs: “Instead of having dodgy dossiers, we now have bogus battalions of moderate fighters.”

Bercakap kepada Sky News pada hari Khamis, Lewis berkata: "Di manakah ajaib 70,000 orang dan jika mereka berada di sana berperang, mengapa mereka tidak mampu untuk melancarkan kembali ISIL/ Daesh?"

"Adakah mereka berada dalam tempat yang salah? Adakah ia bahawa mereka berjuang antara satu sama lain? Atau adakah ia bahawa pada hakikatnya mereka tidak semua yang sederhana dan tidak terdapat banyak jihad di antara mereka? "Tanya beliau.

Speaking to Sky News on Thursday, Lewis said: “Where are these magical 70,000 people and if they are there fighting, how come they haven’t been able to roll back ISIL/Daesh?”

“Is it that they’re in the wrong place? Is it that they’re fighting each other? Or is it that in reality they’re not all that moderate and that there are a lot of jihadists among them?” he asked.

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