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| France Begins Strikes in Iraq as Anti-Jihadist Drive Widens |
| 2014-09-20 |
| [AnNahar] In their first ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... and Zumar. La Belle France carried out its first air strike against the Islamic State group in Iraq Friday, boosting U.S.-led efforts to unite the world against the growing threat posed by the jihadists. More than a decade after Gay Paree famously refused to back the invasion of Iraq, La Belle France became the first nation to join the U.S. campaign of air strikes in the war-torn country. "This morning at 9:40, our Rafale planes carried out a first strike against a logistics depot of the terrorist organization (IS)," President Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist... said. His office said the target was in northeastern Iraq, without specifying exactly where, only adding: "The objective was hit and completely destroyed." French defense ministry sources said two jets dropped laser-guided GBU-12 bombs in the Mosul area. Kurdish military front man Halgord Hekmat identified the location as Tal Mus, between the city of Mosul and Zumar. "We are very happy that La Belle France started its raids," he told AFP. La Belle France, as well as Britannia, had already sent aircraft into Iraq's skies for surveillance missions but Friday's strike was its first against the jihadists. U.S. aircraft have carried out more than 170 strikes since August 8 but President Barack Obama If you have a small business, you didn't build that... has been keen to build a broad international coalition. As security forces and militia, backed by expanding air strikes, battled to regain ground from IS and allied groups, Iraq was rocked by a series of bombings. In a Shiite-dominated areas of northern Baghdad, murderous Moslems blew up two boom-mobiles and lobbed mortar rounds late Thursday, killing at least 28 people in what some said was an attempt to target an army intelligence base where senior IS members are held. Three bombings in and near the capital on Friday killed at least 14 people, while a fourth in the northern city of Kirkuk killed eight more, officials said. In Syria, IS fighters were closing in on the country's third-largest Kurdish town of Ain al-Arab, or Kobane, on the Turkish border, cutting off its Kurdish defenders, a monitor said. "IS fighters have seized at least 21 villages around Kobane," said Rami Abdel Rahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. "The IS is using heavy weaponry, its artillery and tanks." The town is one of three Kurdish majority areas where Kurdish nationalists have proclaimed self-rule and its capture would give the jihadists control of a long stretch of the Turkish border. Syria's exiled opposition National Coalition warned of "the danger of a massacre" in the area, where Kurdish militia have doggedly resisted the jihadists. Washington estimates IS has 20,000 to 31,500 fighters and there are concerns that returning jihadists could carry out attacks in Western countries. According to the latest official statistics, the largest contingent of Western jihadists comes from La Belle France. |
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