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US-led coalition resumes strikes against IS group from Turkey base: Pentagon
 The US-led coalition against the 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.... (IS) group has resumed air strikes from a Turkish air base that were suspended after a failed military coup d'etat, the Pentagon said on Sunday. "After close coordination with our Turkish allies, they have reopened their airspace to military aircraft," Pentagon front man Peter Cook said in a statement. "As a result, counter-ISIS coalition air operations at all air bases in ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... have resumed," he added, using an acronym for the IS group. "US facilities at Incirlik are still operating on internal power sources, but we hope to restore commercial power soon. Base operations have not been affected." The Turkish authorities on Saturday imposed a security lockdown at the Incirlik air base in the southern province of Adana used by US and other coalition forces in the fight against jihadists in Syria and Iraq. The government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... on Saturday put down the bloody coup attempt, but it raised concerns in the West about the stability of the country and its continued role in the anti-IS coalition. Posted by: trailing wife 2016-07-18 |
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