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300 ISIS fighters stranded in the desert, as bait to target jihadists
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] 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....
 bandidos Death Eaters attempting to evacuate members stranded in the Syrian desert are being pummeled by US-led coalition air strikes, the military said Thursday.
This can't be making the Syrians too very unhappy.
'Like moths to a flame,' coalition spokesperson Army Col. Ryan S. Dillon told the military publication Stars and Stripes.

Dillon said that at least 40 vehicles belonging to ISIS have attempted to rescue the stranded jihadists, including armored technical vehicles and a tank disguised as a truck.

'We were able to continue to just observe and pick them off one at a time,' Dillion said.

At least 300 ISIS bandidos Death Eaters and about as many women and kiddies have been marooned in the Syrian desert over the past 10 days, who were seeking passage out of an enclave on the Leb-Syria border after surrendering and brokering a deal with the Lebanese Shi'ite turban group Hezbollah.

But the United States, which was not party to the deal, quickly marshaled coalition forces to halt their progress, and began targeting routes and roadways to Death Eater-held areas farther east.

Airstrikes on roadways and bridges have now left around 11 buses stranded in the middle of nowhere in between Syrian regime and ISIS-held territory on the border with Iraq.

Militants who attempted to execute a scouting mission in recent days were also targeted in Arclight airstrikes after they strayed far enough from the buses to avoid killing civilians.

In all, 85 ISIS fighters have been killed by coalition forces since the convoy was halted.

The US has also disputed claims by Syrian opposition activists that some members of the convoy have made it safely to a nearby turban stronghold.

The convoy 'has not ... and will not reach Iraq,' Brett McGurk, special presidential envoy for the coalition, said Wednesday on Twitter.

The US has also allowed Syrian regime forces to send food and supplies to the stranded convoy.
Posted by: Fred 2017-09-09
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