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| Coalition planes destroy ISIS convoy, all militants killed: Kurdish commander |
| 2015-07-10 |
| [RUDAW.NET] US-led coalition ...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.... (ISIS) group in northern Iraq on Thursday, destroying armored vehicles and killing all the turbans, a Kurdish commander said. "The (coalition) warplanes attacked ISIS elements as they were passing through a road in Halabiya village, east of the Dijla frontline," said Delshad Mawloud, a commander of the Kurdish Peshmerga forces. Three armored vehicles that were in the convoy were destroyed and all ISIS fighters traveling with it were killed, he said, without specifying the number of casualties. The village of Halabiya lies in an area that is in the frontline of the war between Kurdish forces and ISIS. It is east of the Dijla frontline and west of Aski djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , a very small town in the eponymous province. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #14 Yeah, the media made a big stink about 'piling on'. The HoD was small compared to what Ike and boys did at Falaise. Most of the HoD pics don't show a lot of bodies. The Falaise one's do. IIRC Ike said something about walking a mile without your feet touching the ground because of all the corpses, human and (draft) animals. Should have shoved that back into the faces of the little snowflakes at the press briefing. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-07-10 20:28 |
| #13 Hat tip to you, whatever your level of participation. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-07-10 17:21 |
| #12 Took out the lead vehicles, then went back and bombed the rearmost ones. Then the Navy threw in everything and anything that had wings and could carry a bomb... |
| Posted by: Pappy 2015-07-10 17:18 |
| #11 HoD: VA-155 from the mighty USS Ranger. All weather attack Skypigs carried more ordnance under a single wing than an entire flight of Lawn Darts. Bonus was real time video fed courtesy of CNN, who has since lost their way. |
| Posted by: USN, Ret 2015-07-10 15:27 |
| #10 I wonder. . . Reservist A-10s? |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2015-07-10 14:38 |
| #9 Cab ranks find 'em Pappy? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2015-07-10 12:55 |
| #8 Attacking and destroying enemy LOC's (lines of communication) is not a new concept of warfare, and we certainly do have the technology and wherewithal I had a very, very minor role in the HoD op. Suffice it to say that initiative at the scene had a major role at the start, and that it went into a rolling-snowball effect from there. Today - technology and wherewithal, yes. Other factors, not so much. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2015-07-10 10:39 |
| #7 But that was effective, Besoeker---an unpardonable sin! |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-07-10 04:44 |
| #6 Any bets on the brass hat authorizing this attack being forced to resign anon? No, my bets are on continued pressure from SOF elements and a bewildered media after recent televised footage of multiple ISIS convoy running around the battlespace. Harmful to the larger narrative to have a political effort appear, not only notional, but totally ineffective. No ribbon for the chili. Still edible however. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-07-10 04:22 |
| #5 Any bets on the brass hat authorizing this attack being forced to resign anon? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-07-10 04:15 |
| #4 |
| Posted by: 2015-07-10 03:59 |
| #3 All the "convoys" could have been taken out like that. |
| Posted by: newc 2015-07-10 03:39 |
| #2 Oh, thank goodness!! |
| Posted by: Steven 2015-07-10 03:04 |
| #1 I'll bet everything I own there were no fluffy bunnies killed, either. |
| Posted by: gorb 2015-07-10 00:03 |