The chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, Gen Mark Milley, said the letter had been sent in error. He told a meeting of his security cabinet on Monday: “The assassination of Suleimani isn’t an Israeli event but an American event. Abdul-Mahdi said the Iranian military leader had flown to Iraq to negotiate, and he claimed Trump had asked the Iraqi government to mediate. Speaking to journalists later, the Nato secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, distanced the alliance from the operation. As such, we have temporarily suspended our training on the ground,” the secretary general said.

Source: The Guardian January 06, 2020 20:21 UTC