U.S. State Department announced, that the international coalition that the United States is trying to lineup against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria "ISIS"
has nothing to do with the alliance-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
The spokeswoman of the U.S. State Department, Marie Harff explained in a press statement saying that "when we talk about what we are doing today, we do not want to be in any way similar to what happened in 2003 during the invasion of Iraq.
Harff responded to the similarities between the coalition which was formed by former President George W. Bush, which includes 49 countries during the invasion of Iraq in 2003, and among the ten countries which met Friday in Newport on the sidelines of the summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to form a coalition against ISIS.
Harff said "we will never use the same strategy," emphasizing that "it's not about a coalition of American, but an international coalition."
The United States and other countries have agrees to form an alliance that will be expanded later to include countries in the Arab region to face ISIS organization, which now controls vast areas in Iraq and Syria.
The nucleus of the international coalition, which was formed at the top of Newport countries includes, members of NATO are the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Denmark, Turkey and Poland, in addition to Australia, which is not a NATO member state.
President , Barack Obama has expressed confidence Friday of an international coalition to face ISIS and end it.
He added that the Minister of State, John Kerry will travel to the Middle East (next week) to continue to build a broad alliance will enable the reduction of the capacity of ISIS organization then destroy it in the end, as he put it.
Obama said that this alliance will make sustained effort to repel the insurgents of ISIS.
Obama urged Sunni-dominated Arab states -which refuses to the practices of ISIS to actively join the international coalition that is forming now.
The United States launched air strikes last month on ISIS sites in northern Iraq, and helped the Kurdish and Iraqi forces to restore towns in Nineveh, Kirkuk and Salahuddin provinces.
This came at a time considered one of those responsible for counter-terrorism in the United States considered that European passport holders who are fighting in the ranks of ISIS organization in Iraq and Syria pose an "imminent threat" to the countries from which they come.
The official of the National Center for Counter-Terrorism , Matthew Olsen said in a meeting with journalists near Washington that "the threat is relatively fulminant for Europe."
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