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US won't telegraph timing of Syria airstrike

September 20, 2014 at 1:11 pm

The US is prepared to launch airstrikes on ISIS targets in Syria but will not disclose the planned timing of its operations, national security adviser Susan Rice said on Friday.

“I don’t think it would be appropriate or wise for me to telegraph from the podium exactly when that will occur, and what steps may need to be taken before that is to occur,” Rice told reporters at a White House press briefing.

She added that any attacks on Syria would be “at a time and a place of our own choosing” and that “when and how we choose to do that will be an operational decision.”

The statements come ten days after US President Barack Obama said he had authorised bombing ISIS in Syria and that the strikes will be aimed at denying an ISIS safe haven in Iraq and Syria.