US, allies launch 25 air strikes in Iraq, eight in Syria
[Ynet] US and coalition forces launched 25 air strikes in Iraq and eight in Syria on Friday 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
targets, the US military said.
In Iraq, the air strikes were centered near 12 cities including djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, Ramadi, Baiji, Tuz and Sinjar, the Combined Joint Task Force said in a statement on Saturday. They destroyed buildings, vehicles, a homemade explosives facility and more than 50 of the murderous Moslems' fighting positions, it said.
In Syria, six strikes hit near Mar'a and others at Raqqa and Tal Abyad, the statement said.
Posted by: trailing wife 2015-09-06 |