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Iraq
US says it destroyed massive Islamic State chemical plant
2016-09-15
[IsraelTimes] Strike against former Mosul pharmaceuticals factory eliminates ’significant chemical threat’ from jihadist group

American warplanes eliminated a "significant chemical threat" to Iraqi civilians by bombing a complex of buildings near the northern city of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
that 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....
Death Eaters had converted from pharmaceutical manufacturing to chemical weapons production, the three-star general in charge of US air operations in the Middle East said Tuesday.

Air Force Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Harrigian told news hounds at the Pentagon that the target was an Islamic State headquarters also used to produce lethal chemicals, possibly including chlorine and mustard gas.

He provided no details on the chemical production.

Harrigian described the Arclight airstrike as a large, well-planned operation, which destroyed more than 50 targets at the site with a variety of US warplanes, including Air Force B-52 bombers and Marine Corps F-18D attack planes.

Other US officials said later that a total of 12 US planes were used.

Harrigian said the mission was part of a broader effort to cut off the Islamic State’s main sources of revenue, kill their leaders and create "organizational dysfunction" in ways that will eliminate the group as a military threat in Iraq and Syria.
Posted by:trailing wife

#5  We'd get billed for carbon offsets
Posted by: Bov Flimbers   2016-09-15 21:37  

#4  what about all the collateral environmental damage that prevented bombing the oil tankers?
Posted by: Lonzo Omoluger2627   2016-09-15 16:48  

#3  2 A-10s could have done twice the destruction at 1/100 the cost and increased morale all along the front.
Posted by: Shipman   2016-09-15 15:47  

#2  That's silly ISIS only has puppy mills.
Posted by: bbrewer126   2016-09-15 10:00  

#1  In another time, this would've been a baby milk factory.
Posted by: Pappy   2016-09-15 08:47  

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