[AlAhram] The United States and its allies staged 15 Arclight airstrikes on 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 in Iraq and seven in Syria since early Saturday, the Combined Joint Task Force said in a statement on Sunday.
| Totalling 22 all together. In case you wondered, dear Reader. |
In Iraq, targets successfully struck included two boats and two IED caches near Al Baghdadi; a tactical unit, three vehicles and a building near Bayji; and a tactical unit and armored vehicle near Tuz.
In Syria, Arclight airstrikes destroyed tactical units, bunkers, an air defense artillery system, a mortar system and a rocket launcher near Al Hasakah, artillery and an excavator near Al Hawl and a staging area near Washiyah.
| But no training camps. I guess that's being left for the next resident of the White House. |
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