“The U.S.-led coalition has never decisively ended any battle. We don’t trust the coalition and we don’t need their help.”Zaid Sabah and David Lerman, “Iraq Starts Attack on Tikrit without Iranian Help, No U.S. Strikes,” Bloomberg Business, March 1, 2015, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-01/iraq-deploys-27-000-troops-to-retake-tikrit-from-islamic-state.