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| US Coalition bombs ISIL convoy heading to Deir Ezzor from Lebanon, claims 85 dead |
| 2017-09-04 |
| [AlMasdar] The U.S. Coalition’s official spokesperson claimed on Sunday that their jets had killed 85 Islamic State (ISIL) terrorists and destroyed over 40 of their vehicles that were traveling from the Syrian-Lebanese border to Deir Ezzor. “Hezbollah-ISIS update: 85 Daesh killed, 40 separate ISIS vehicles destroyed; @CJTFOIR NOT targeting or preventing aid to civilians,” the official Twitter account of Operation Inherent Resolve claimed on Sunday. This claim comes just days after the U.S. denied their air assets were targeting the ISIL convoy that consists of 300 combatants and 500 civilians. Both Hezbollah and Iran have urged the U.S. to halt their bombings in order to prevent the 500 civilians from being killed by Coalition jets; however, this has been ignored. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #7 Arabic saying: "Me and my brothers against my cousins, me and my cousins against the stranger" Why dig them out of a IED-festooned fortified village if you can talk them into going east and die fighting someone else? A Win-Win-Win if they kill someone(e.g. Kurds) in the process that are competing for power in the region. |
| Posted by: magpie 2017-09-04 15:54 |
| #6 Hezbollah are on opposite sides to ISIS ISIS is a convenient symbolic "rent an enemy." They're kinda like the Obama supporter who suddenly became an alt-right "white supremacist" in Charlottsville recently. It has helped Hezbollah pretend they're Fighting Isis every time they go out to shoot someone, just like Antifadah likes to pretend they're fighting naziism whenever they beat up whoever they're beating up this week. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2017-09-04 12:52 |
| #5 It gets IS and its minions out of Lebanon and away from the power-players in that miserable country. It gets them out of Assad's territory and western Syria in general. It coincides with Russia and Iran's intent to keep Assad in power. It keeps the Syrian power balance, and the Mid-East power balance in general, intact and in favor of Russian, Iranian, Heb'allah (and to a lesser extent, Turkish) interests. It becomes a 'Western' and Arab problem in eastern Syria and western Iraq. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2017-09-04 11:52 |
| #4 Smells like bullshit to me Hezbollah are on opposite sides to ISIS |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2017-09-04 10:38 |
| #3 I love heart warming stories. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2017-09-04 10:16 |
| #2 85*72 = 6120 virgins |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-09-04 07:45 |
| #1 Desperately needs haha graphic. |
| Posted by: gorb 2017-09-04 00:20 |