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Cost of US war on ISIL passes $2 billion mark: Pentagon
It costs a lot of money to have your house fumigated, too. If you need it and you don't spend it you'll regret it.[Iran Press TV] The cost of military operations by the United States against the ISIL Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... Death Eaters in Iraq and Syria has surpassed the $2 billion mark, the Pentagon reports. "As of Mar. 26, 2015, the total cost of operations related to ISIL since kinetic operations started on Aug. 8, 2014, is $1.96 billion and the average daily cost is $8.5 million," Defense Department front man Bill Urban told The Hill on Thursday. In December, the total cost of US military operations on the ISIL passed the $1 billion mark, according to The Hill. A large chunk of the cost was incurred by US The United States first launched its air raids in Iraq last August and then expanded the strikes to Syria last September. Posted by: Fred 2015-04-17 |
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