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| Iraq Operations Cost $560 Million S |
| Iraq Operations Cost $560 Million So Far: Pentagon
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 30-August-2014
9:2:58 AM |
| US military operations in Iraq, including airstrikes and surveillance flights, have cost about $560 million (30 billion rupees) since mid-June, the Pentagon said on Friday.
Rear Adm. John Kirby, the Pentagon press secretary, said the average daily cost has been $7.5 million. He said it began at a much lower rate in June and escalated after the airstrikes in northern Iraq began this month.
After he spoke, the US Central Command announced four additional airstrikes, bringing the total since they began on August 8 to 110.
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Central Command said Friday's missions by US fighter and attack aircraft destroyed four armed vehicles and three support vehicles in the vicinity of the Mosul Dam. One armed vehicle was damaged, it said without providing more details.
Asked why US warplanes are still pounding the Mosul Dam area, long after US officials said local Kurdish and Iraqi forces had regained control from the Islamic State forces, Kirby said, "Because ISIL keeps wanting to take it back," using an acronym for the group.
"They keep threatening the dam and the facility. And as long as they pose a threat to that facility, we are going to continue to help Iraqi security forces preserve their ownership of it,"
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