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| Coalition Strikes IS Oil Sites In Syria For 2nd Day |
| 2014-09-27 |
| [IsraelTimes] Warplanes from the US-led coalition bombed oil installations and other facilities in territory controlled by 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group in eastern Syria for a second consecutive day Friday, activists said. The strikes hit two oil areas in Deir el-Zour province a day after the United States and its Arab allies pummeled a dozen makeshift oil producing facilities in the same area near Syria's border with Iraq. The raids aim to cripple one of the terrorists' primary sources of cash -- black market oil sales that the US says earn up to $2 million a day. The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the strikes overnight and early Friday hit the Tink oil field as well as the Qouriyeh oil-producing area in Deir el-Zour. It said air raids also targeted the headquarters of the Islamic State group in the town of Mayadeen. Another activist collective, the Local Coordination Committees, also reported four strikes on Mayadeen that it said were conducted by the coalition. The Observatory, which relies on a network of activists inside Syria, said there were reports of casualties in the strikes, but did not have concrete figures. The US-led coalition, which began its aerial campaign against Islamic State fighters in Syria early Tuesday, aims to roll back and ultimately crush the bad boy group that has created a proto-state spanning the Syria-Iraq border. Along the way, the forces of Evil have massacred captured Syrian and Iraqi troops, terrorized minorities in both countries and beheaded two American journalists and a British aid worker. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #5 If I understand this correctly (seems like the reporters don' really understand what they're talking about), the targets are not oil wells or processing equipment directly attached to the wells or on the well sites, nor major refining complexes, but temporary or mobile - and small - processing systems. Environmental effects would be minimal, and interruption of operations short lived, assuming they can obtain repair/replacement parts - but would disrupt current operations, and possibly cash flow. Not a terribly bad tactic, IMO. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2014-09-27 15:59 |
| #4 wo wo wo WhoA! Does the EPA know about this? |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2014-09-27 14:53 |
| #3 This is the positive news from this entire mess. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-09-27 14:49 |
| #2 They keep doing that, and there won't be anything for the anti-war activists to chain themselves to. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2014-09-27 14:25 |
| #1 All together now: "No more blood for oil!" |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2014-09-27 09:12 |