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2015-07-10 Iraq

ISIS destroys key Anbar bridge to slow Iraqi forces

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Posted by Fred 2015-07-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top
File under: Islamic State

#1 There is no bridge that connects Saqlawiyah and Fallujah...just a road with a few culverts over irrigation ditches. I guess no one at the RUDAW.NET volunteered to fact check the story.

Posted by ConstantCough 2015-07-10 09:27|| 2015-07-10 09:27|| Front Page Top

#2 Look away Frank, nothing to see here.

Posted by Shipman 2015-07-10 12:56|| 2015-07-10 12:56|| Front Page Top

#3 I was agetting riled up

Posted by Frank G 2015-07-10 13:24|| 2015-07-10 13:24|| Front Page Top

#4 Good news, Frank: there's a request for contract coming out soon...

Posted by Steve White 2015-07-10 14:14|| 2015-07-10 14:14|| Front Page Top

#5 There are a couple of pretty deep wahdis around Fallujah and we bombed them ourselves during the wars of the two Georges.

More importantly to me is ISIS seems to feel the need to slow Iraqi forces down. Does that mean the good(?)guys (I know good in this situation is pretty relative) are making advances at a fast enough rate to worry the Imperial Grand Overlord of the Universe himself?

Posted by Bill Clinton 2015-07-10 14:37|| 2015-07-10 14:37|| Front Page Top

#6 Hey Constantcough been hanging around the burn pit? My nephew 3 tours Iraq has a constant cough and he believes the burn pits caused it.

Posted by bman 2015-07-10 15:08|| 2015-07-10 15:08|| Front Page Top

#7 the news service here "RUDAW" is Kurdish and they are undoubtedly getting their info 2nd or 3rd hand.

There is a major bridge east of Fallujah across the Euphrates but there are no rivers to the north of Fallujah in the direction of Saqlawiyah (as constantcough points out). There are some sanitary canals all around the city (and around villages, etc.) and various improvised bridges cross them.

Posted by lord garth 2015-07-10 16:58|| 2015-07-10 16:58|| Front Page Top

#8 Hey Constantcough been hanging around the burn pit? My nephew 3 tours Iraq has a constant cough and he believes the burn pits caused it. Posted by bman

If he's not done so already, tell your nephew to get himself and his DD-214 to the VA asap. Needs to be documented if nothing else.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-07-10 17:04|| 2015-07-10 17:04|| Front Page Top

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