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Russia releases imagery of ISIS oil tanker convoy
2015-12-27
[Telegraph] Russia has released spectacular footage of what Kremlin officials claim to be a successful bombing campaign to destroy the Islamic State's oil-smuggling rackets into Turkey.

At a briefing by the Russian ministry of defence in Moscow, generals produced videos and photographs of Russian warplanes pulverizing huge columns of oil tankers allegedly transporting oil for sale on the black market.
Not sure how we missed that one.
We had the report yesterday. And another report today from The Times of Israel, but the video isn't nearly as good as this Telegraph article provides.
Posted by:Besoeker

#7  For the Obama foreign policy, also see Islamic foreign policy.
Posted by: Besoeker   2015-12-27 22:43  

#6  No, Clyde #5, "we" (Bambi et al.) do have a foreign policy:

Shaft our traditional/Western friends and help our enemies destroy all of Western Civilization.
Posted by: Barbara   2015-12-27 22:41  

#5  And Obama let this go on for more than a year without doing a thing to stop it. The funds ISIS received helped kill thousands, and their blood is on Obama's hands. We don't have a schizophrenic foreign policy, we lack a foreign policy. Period.
Posted by: Clyde Bucket1605   2015-12-27 18:54  

#4  "what would we ever do without experts?"

Live happy, normal lives, #1 Frank.
Posted by: Barbara   2015-12-27 18:38  

#3  I cut the Cardinal a little slack, I figure he mighta be seriously myopic, like James Thurber.


So we tried it with every adjustment of the microscope known to man. With only one of them did I see anything but blackness or the familiar lacteal opacity, and that time I saw, to my pleasure and amazement, a variegated constellation of flecks, specks, and dots. These I hastily drew. The instructor, noting my activity, came from an adjoining desk, a smile on his lips and his eyebrows high in hope. He looked at my cell drawing. "What's that?" he demanded, with a hint of squeal in his voice. "That's what I saw," I said. "You didn't, you didn't, you didn't!" he screamed, losing control of his temper instantly, and he bent over and squinted into the microscope. His head snapped up. "That's your eye!" he shouted. "You've fixed the lens so that it reflects! You've drawn your eye!"

Posted by: Shipman   2015-12-27 15:39  

#2  How can that knowitall from King's College dismiss all of this video as another example of how the Russian MoD is lying?

Kinda hard to refute video tape.

Of course if he is a typical liberal, he's like the cardinal looking through Galileo's telescope and refusing to admit to seeing moons around Jupiter.
Posted by: Bill Clinton   2015-12-27 11:55  

#1  However, experts questioned whether the Russian briefing was primarily a propaganda stunt designed to irritate Turkey, whose government is a leading opponent of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad.

what would we ever do without experts?
Posted by: Frank G   2015-12-27 08:53  

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