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| US-led strikes in Syria kill 170 IS jihadists in 48 hours: monitor |
| 2015-05-20 |
| Beirut (AFP) - Air strikes by a US-led coalition against the Islamic State group in northeastern Syria have killed around 170 jihadists in the past 48 hours, a monitoring group said Tuesday. "The jihadists were killed in the past 48 hours in the province of Hasakeh, nearly all of them in very intense air strikes by the international coalition which is helping Kurdish forces in the area," said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. |
| Posted by:Daffy Brown4464 |
| #5 And not a peep from the Code Pinkos. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2015-05-20 13:34 |
| #4 All these numbers are giving me flashbacks (and not the good kind!) to the Vietnam body counts. I wonder if 'air strikes' is a catch-all term for any time a plane goes up, even if only for patrol or recon. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2015-05-20 11:10 |
| #3 For a policy that seems to be "all in" on aerial warfare as the answer, the level of activity seems lethargic. Why, if I didn't know any better, I'd say it was by design. /sarc |
| Posted by: Pappy 2015-05-20 09:37 |
| #2 170? In 1944 the 7th AF with their P-47s, Iron bombs, rockets and machine guns were killing that many in the Falaise Pocket each minute. For a policy that seems to be "all in" on aerial warfare as the answer, the level of activity seems lethargic. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2015-05-20 08:53 |
| #1 I observe that Obama's air strikes have no collateral damage. No women, children, fluffy bunnies or baby ducks were killed or even injured. Startled, perhaps. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2015-05-20 07:55 |