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| Jordanians inscribed bombs used to strike Islamic State targets |
| 2015-02-06 |
| [Ynet] State television releases footage of Jordanians inscribing messages to radical Islamists on bombs before warplanes takeoff. Hours after Jordanian jets returned home on Thursday after striking 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.... targets in Syria, local media broadcast a video capturing the operation's commencement, showing Jordanian personnel writing messages to ISIS on the warplanes' bombs. The outrage on the Jordanian street has been simmering for the past few days ‐ both because of the cruelty of the Islamic State's fighters and a feeling by some of the public that their king had dragged Jordan into an American war that was not in their benefit. On Thursday night, those feeling spurned received a measure of relief. Footage of the operation which was named after Mouath al-Kasaesbeh ‐ the pilot burned to death by ISIS ‐ and shows Jordanians inscribing bombs with messages to the Islamist radicals. "Dedicated from the flight officers to the dogs of Daesh," one wrote on a bomb, referring to the Arabic name for ISIS. The warplanes are then seeing taking off for the operation to bomb the bad boys. A military statement, read on state TV, was entitled, "This is the beginning and you will get to know the Jordanians" ‐ an apparent warning to ISIS. It said the strikes will continue "until we eliminate them." |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 In contrast to this the Western political leadership's policy after 9/11 was to suppress or ostracize any expression of outrage. Also a conscious effort was made not to associate the military response with notions of retribution or retaliation. Shock, fear and grief at times verging on maudlin sentimentality, all of these emotional responses were permissible. Not so for anything like anger or outrage at an act of infamous betrayal. |
| Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 2015-02-06 12:46 |
| #1 The PC Poleece would not let us do that during Desert Storm; we actually had to wash the Rockeye clean of 'greetings' before we cold launch. (I think the Poleece were TAD from the Hornet outfits) |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2015-02-06 09:48 |