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Iraq
Coalition planes pound ISIS-held Saddam palace: UK
2016-08-04
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Coalition warplanes bombed one of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s palaces which was being used as a training base ISIS, Britannia’s Ministry of Defense said Wednesday.

The palace in the ISIS stronghold of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
in northern Iraq was attacked in a joint operation by the US-led coalition on Monday, with British Tornado jets targeting the headquarters buildings and a security centre.

Extensive surveillance established that the ISIS group, also known as ISIS, was using the palace and its sprawling grounds as a headquarters and training centre for foreign recruits, the ministry said.

Within the secure compound on the banks of the River Tigris, the main palace building was being used as accommodation and a meeting venue.

The site also contained "a number of more discreet outbuildings used for command and control, training, internal security and repression", it said.

"A large coalition air package drawn from several nations conducted a carefully coordinated attack on the complex," the ministry said in a statement.

"The British contribution was a pair of Tornados, armed with the largest guided bombs in the RAF’s (Royal Air Force’s) inventory, the 2,000-pound (910-kilogramme) Enhanced Paveway III, which were used to target first the headquarters buildings, then a security centre.

"Initial analysis indicates that the coalition mission was successful."

Mosul, Iraq’s second city, has been held by the ISIS group since June 2014. Iraqi forces are conducting operations to set the stage for an assault but the final push to retake it is likely still months away.

As part of the international coalition, RAF Tornado and Typhoon jets are flying daily missions against ISIS in Iraq as well as in Syria from the British sovereign bases on Cyprus.

"ISIS has been losing followers and territory for months, and emphatic strikes like this show that we and the coalition will not waver," Defense Secretary Michael Fallon said after the Mosul bombing.

"ISIS fighters, both foreign and home-grown, can see that they are targets inside this cultmid."
Posted by:Fred

#5  Not drill pipe. Old artillery tubes.
Posted by: Pappy   2016-08-04 23:37  

#4  Didn't the dear departed ole Saddam spend a butt load of money on each of his palaces constructing these very deep and very hardened bunkers FAR underground beneath the palaces? Didn't some German company get their hands slapped for designing said bunkers and didn't the US go dig up a bunch of drill pipe and construct some kind of jury rigged bunker buster to deal with them?

Or have I gone off the deep end and started those hallucinations again?
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2016-08-04 23:19  

#3  Knock knock
Who it is is?
The Few
The Few?
Yes, the Few.
I don't know any Few, are you from around here?
We are from Biggin Hill
Well then what can I do for you?
Please sign for this package.
What's is it?
An air package.
What's in it?
Depends, I suggest you buy several pair. Cheerios.
Posted by: Shipman   2016-08-04 12:37  

#2  Good catch, Bov. Googling the first paragraph got me the same AFP article from another source; it looks like Al Arabiya was hit by a stray gamma ray as they copied the text from the feed. Al Monitor has that sentence as:

"Daesh fighters, both foreign and home-grown, can see that they are targets inside this cult."
Posted by: trailing wife   2016-08-04 05:56  

#1  hmm... hit all the dictionaries and still no idea wtf is a cultmid, other than a bike thing. It's great learning new words that have no meaning, like our liberals teach us.
Posted by: Bov Flimbers   2016-08-04 03:20  

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