Guest Sat Oct 10, 2015 11:50 pm
"Iraq’s Defense Ministry said Friday it was not informed when Russia launched more than two dozen cruise missiles across its airspace this week, and it described the lack of coordination in the region’s increasingly cluttered skies as “dangerous.”
U.S. officials have also said they were given no notification before Russia fired the volley of 26 cruise missiles, which traveled nearly 1,000 miles across Iran and Iraq and into Syria from warships in the Caspian Sea — despite the ongoing presence of U.S.-led coalition jets in the airspace.
“Iraq didn’t have any idea about those missiles,” said Brig. Gen. Tahseen Ibrahim, a spokesman for the Iraqi Defense Ministry. “We have coalition forces’ air power in the air, our planes in the air, transportation. This is dangerous.”However, Ibrahim said, the coordination center at the heart of that deal is not yet fully functioning, which is why the information was not shared. The lack of notification about Russia’s cruise missiles was the main focus of discussions when Gen. John R. Allen, the retired U.S. officer in charge of the international coalition to counter the Islamic State, visited the Iraqi Defense Ministry on Thursday, Ibrahim said."
Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/iraq-says-it-was-not-warned-about-russian-missiles-crossing-its-airspace/2015/10/09/bec6bb5c-6e8f-11e5-91eb-27ad15c2b723_story.html
So, which one is it. Done in cooperation with Iraq/Iran, or they actually did not have any clue Russians would use cruise missiles?