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Iraq
Incoming Daesh car bombs stopped by anti-tank missiles
2015-06-07
[ARABNEWS] BAGHDAD: Government forces and Shiite turbans repelled two Daesh attacks in Anbar province on Saturday, officials said. In one attack, they used anti-tank missiles to stop four would-be suicide boom-mobileers.

Police and military officials said Daesh bandidos snuffies attacked the government-held town of Husseiba with heavy mortar fire early Saturday. They say the attackers retreated after an hours-long battle, leaving behind three destroyed vehicles and five dead fighters. At least 10 troops and turbans were maimed in the clash.

Iraqi forces took Husseiba, near the Lion of Islam-held placid provincial capital of Ramadi, from Daesh last month.

The officials said that elsewhere in Anbar province, Iraqi troops using Russian anti-tank Kornet missiles destroyed four incoming suicide boom-mobiles during an IS attack in the Tharthar area.

Iraqi forces, backed by Shiite militias, have been struggling to recapture areas lost to Daesh in the country's west and north.

Meanwhile,
...back at the argument, Jane reached into her purse for her .38...
 police said a bomb went kaboom! at a commercial street in the Taji area, just north of Baghdad, killing two people and wounding five others. Another kaboom near several shops killed three people and maimed eight others in the capital's southern suburbs.

In an emphatic defense of the air war in Iraq and Syria, a senior American general fired back at critics who call the campaign timid and ineffective, saying bombs have tied down Daesh men without killing large numbers of civilians.

In a news conference he said was called to counter misconceptions about the use of air power in an unconventional war, Air Force Lt. Gen. John W. Hesterman III asserted that pilots are killing more than 1,000 bandidos snuffies a month while avoiding civilian casualties and Iraqi government forces.

"The thought that we're observing large numbers of Daesh bandidos snuffies and not killing them, anywhere, is fiction," he said, using an Arabic acronym for 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
, which has defied nearly a year of daily US Arclight airstrikes to maintain a hold on large swaths of northern and western Iraq and eastern Syria.

"We kill them wherever we find them," the general said.

Hesterman leads US Central Command's air forces and the coalition air campaign. He spoke by telephone to news hounds at the Pentagon from his headquarters at Al-Udeid air base in Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates...
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Posted by:Fred

#6  Well, we fired once more and the British kept a a coming, but not so many as there was awhile ago.
Posted by: Shipman   2015-06-07 22:36  

#5  They used to say the same thing about Palestinians, Pappy.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-06-07 13:56  

#4  That, the IS does not want for, g(r)om.
Posted by: Pappy   2015-06-07 12:38  

#3  You also must have plenty of Shahids, pater.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-06-07 10:30  

#2  It is when you lack the facilities, faculties, and materiel to maintain them.
Posted by: Pappy   2015-06-07 09:01  

#1  Surprise, surprise!
Boomobile is NOT an efficient way to use armor.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-06-07 01:44  

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