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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
US Says It Conducts 14 Air Strikes Against Islamic State Near Kobani
2014-10-17
[Ynet] US military fighter and bomber planes carried out 14 air strikes 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 near the Syrian border town of Kobani on Wednesday and Thursday, the US military's Central Command said.

The air strikes appear to have slowed the bully boy group's advances, but "the security situation on the ground in Kobani remains tenuous," it said in a statement on Thursday.
Posted by:trailing wife

#4  If you can count them, there aren't enough...
Posted by: tu3031   2014-10-17 19:37  

#3  14 air strikes?? WTF,

So could we, like, bomb Turkey with the ones we aren't using? Everyone else is fighting everyone else. No sense missing the fun!
Posted by: SteveS   2014-10-17 19:35  

#2  14 air strikes?? WTF, that isn't even one regular cycle launch from a CV.

bambi too busy with ebola-otics to work the day's target approval Ouija board?
I did read that has soon as he appointed the day's ebola czar he went back to the campaign tail, gotta make up that lost time. what a complete POS
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2014-10-17 18:52  

#1  Meanwhile, not to be outdone by the USAF ...

* GROONG > [FrontPage Magazine = David Greenfield] INSTEAD OF BOMBING ISIS, TURKEY BOMBS KURDS WID US PLANES.

TAF F-16's.

VERSUS

* OTOH SAME > TURKEY WILL NOT ALLOW ITS CITIZENS TO FIGHT IN KOBANE.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2014-10-17 02:14  

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