, Barack Obama to consider air strikes on gathering places of the armed Sunni militants who pose a growing threat to his government.

The newspaper quoted U.S. experts who visited Baghdad earlier this year as saying that Iraqi leaders told them that they hope to use U.S. Air Force to hit the gathering points and training of militants in Iraq and help the Iraqi forces in the country to prevent them from crossing to the country from Syria.

Wall Street newspaper Journal quoted senior U.S. officials as saying that Iraq hinted to us that it would allow the United States to strike targets for al-Qaeda in Iraq, whether by piloted aircraft, or drones.