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Terror Networks
US Now Hitting Islamic State Targets from Mediterranean Sea
2016-06-05
[An Nahar] The U.S. Navy's top admiral says the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman has begun launching Arclight airstrikes against the 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....
group from the Mediterranean Sea.

That opens a new direction of attack against the holy warriors in Iraq and Syria.

Adm. John Richardson said in an News Agency that Dare Not be Named interview Saturday that this unusual arrangement is a demonstration of the flexibility of naval power. The Navy for years positioned its carriers in the Persian Gulf to conduct Arclight airstrikes against targets in the Middle East.

The Truman had been in the Gulf but in recent days moved into the eastern Mediterranean and resumed air operations. The Truman eventually will return to its home port at Norfolk, Virginia, and be replaced in the Gulf by the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Posted by:Fred

#1  Means they're transiting somebody's airspace...
Posted by: Pappy   2016-06-05 13:27  

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