"I don't really want to get involved in any big discussion about the situation, " he told the Sunderland Echo from the club's training camp near Antwerp in Belgium.

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The U.S. military is "monitoring" the situation, but has no plans to get involved, the commander of U.S. forces in northern Iraq Maj.

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But again, I would reiterate simply that there isn't anybody involved in any of these meetings that wouldn't say that the situation doesn't have to get better in order for any strategy to work.

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