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U.S.-Led Aircraft Carry Out 61 Raids in Iraq since Monday
[AnNahar] U.S. and allied warplanes have carried out 61 air strikes against Islamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... jihadists in Iraq since Monday, including dozens in support of Kurdish forces, the military said Wednesday. The strikes backing the Kurdish peshmerga "destroyed approximately 50 targets," the U.S. military command overseeing the air war said. The air assault represented a spike in the pace of U.S.-led strikes compared to recent days. The U.S. military did not specify where the 45 strikes took place, but the announcement came as Kurdish forces launched a major offensive around the Sinjar area near the Syrian border. The Kurdish operation is being staged from two locations: Rabia on the border with Syria and at Zumar along the djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... dam, senior officers in the peshmerga said. The peshmerga chief of staff, Massud Barzani, who is president of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, said the aim was to recapture the entire Sinjar area. The U.S. military said the air raids in support of the Kurds involved 15 coalition aircraft and the targets hit included "bulldozers, vehicles, checkpoints, enemy fighting positions, enemy fighters, and equipment." In addition, U.S.-led aircraft carried out 16 other strikes in Iraq, bombing IS Death Eaters near Mosul, Arbil, Tal-Afar, Heet and Ramadi. In Syria, the coalition conducted six strikes, including five raids around Kobane near the Turkish border, it said. Posted by: trailing wife 2014-12-18 |
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