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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
US warplanes takes out ISIS members running to stranded convoy
2017-09-08
[NYPOST] US warplanes are picking off 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....
snuffies who are drawn "like moths to the flame" of a stranded convoy evacuating hundreds of hard boyz from Syria to the Iraqi border, according to a report on Thursday.

"We were able to exploit it and take advantage," Army Col. Ryan S. Dillon, a coalition front man, said as buses and trucks full of Islamic State fighters and their families were halted in the Syrian desert, The Stars and Stripes reported.

"Like moths to the flame," Dillon described the more than 40 vehicles, including armored vehicles and a tank disguised as a truck, that came to aid the hapless convoy. "We were able to continue to just observe and pick them off one at a time."

As snuffies stray too far from the protection of the caravan, US warplanes are picking them off, Dillon said. adding that the strikes have also destroyed IS vehicles coming to the region from terrorist-held areas.

All together, he said about 85 snuffies have been killed since the fleet of vehicles was stopped about 10 days ago, saving coalition fighters from having to hunt them down.

More than 300 IS jihadists and an equal number of men and women set off about 10 days ago from the Leb-Syrian border after brokering a deal with Leb’s Hezbollah group for safe passage through the Syria-government held territory.

The convoy "has not ... and will not reach Iraq," Brett McGurk, special presidential envoy for the coalition, said Wednesday on Twitter.

Posted by:Fred

#5  Silly question: Why is there a stranded convoy? 10 days later. Why not an obliterated convoy 2 days later?
Posted by: Woozle and Company4485   2017-09-08 22:10  

#4  Wonder what prizes they are protecting?
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-09-08 13:06  

#3  I'm still puzzled (sorta) over Hesb'allah and their Iranian minders for both sending IS out towards Iraq (and Iran) and getting upset that the convoy is stranded.
Posted by: Pappy   2017-09-08 11:04  

#2  I think they used to whine about call it 'disproportionate force'. Given a Republican US president, I'm surprised it's not back in vogue.
Posted by: Raj   2017-09-08 11:01  

#1  "Highway of Death"(c)?

No cries in the media of piling on?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2017-09-08 10:25  

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