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| U.S., Saudi Warplanes Strike around Syria Border Town |
| 2014-10-14 |
| [AnNahar] U.S. and Saudi warplanes carried out eight air strikes in Syria on Sunday and Monday, mainly targeting 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.... jihadists fighting for a key border town, the U.S. military said. Bombers and fighter aircraft hit IS positions in seven strikes around Kobane, the scene of heavy fighting between the jihadists and Kurdish rebels near the Turkish border, U.S. Central Command said. The targets included IS units, staging areas, a heavy machine gun position, and five buildings held by the jihadist group. The IS group has poured in reinforcements to try to overcome tenacious Kurdish resistance, and the fighting has threatened to cut Kobane from the outside world. An air strike also hit an IS garrison northwest of the Syrian town of Raqa, according to the command, which oversees US military operations in the region. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 mainly targeting Seems to leave some weasel room for the Saudis to be bombing someone else. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2014-10-14 19:40 |