I Know There Are Already Boots on the Ground Where I Am

NBC News Correspondent Richard Engel, reporting live from Kurdistan in northern Iraq Wednesday night, said U.S. troops are on the ground in Iraq and avoiding reporters.

 

“I know there are already American boots on the ground where I am now,” Engel told MSNBC. “They are not necessarily firing their rifles or kicking down doors, and we’re not going on embeds with these troops.

 

“They are troops who are staying away from reporters, they are embedded with local fighters trying to guide in air strikes, gathering intelligence — the kind of thing you would have thought the Green Berets would have done many years ago, and which are now being done by Navy SEALS and Delta Force and other Special Operations Forces.

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