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| Syrian Activists: Bomb Kills Local Al-Qaida Leader | |
| 2014-05-07 | |
[Ynet] A roadside kaboom has killed a local al-Qaeda leader and his wife, an attack that may ignite new infighting between rebel groups in Syria, Syrian activists said Tuesday.
The Observatory said the killing was an "liquidation." It came just days after Nusra fighters seized a controversial Western-backed Syrian military commander, Ahmad al-Nuaimi. It's unclear if the two men are related. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #9 "Bomb Kills Local Al-Qaida Leader" Feel-good story of the day. :-D |
| Posted by: Barbara 2014-05-07 21:05 |
| #8 You're buying, Snowy. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2014-05-07 20:33 |
| #7 Actually, the finer points of Arclight strikes are a frequent topic of discussion by us boys on the assembly line for the F-150s. It would be nice to know that our work was going to be put to good use. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-05-07 18:58 |
| #6 VFW bar.... Koffee thru the nose. Thanks u ....er ! Whahahaha |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-05-07 18:05 |
| #5 Again, degradation works - if you immediately and agressively follow up to take advantage of the degradation. Nation-building works - if you aggressively mitigate the factors that work against it.. Obviously none of that happened. That's a leadership failure, not a concept failure A "firey, strategic bombing campaign," in my experience, still requires preparation, intel, BDA, location and deployment of assets, aggressive follow-up, et cetera. It all sounds nice and doable - especially yakking about it at the VFW bar. The implementation, however, still has to be done. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2014-05-07 18:00 |
| #4 While it doesn't take too much "situational awareness" [SA] to go out and set IED's to kill infidels, you make a valid point. If killing or capturing High Value Targets [HVT], you're pissing in the wind. So called nation building is also pissing in the wind. In fact, just about every effort the US has initiated against the TB in Afghanistan equates to little more than pissing in the wind. Now if you're talking about a firey, strategic bombing campaign against mosque armories, training centers, and breeding hives in Chaman or Quetta, that's a different story. HVT campaigns however, not so much. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-05-07 17:04 |
| #3 So called 'Leadership Decapitation' accomplishes little. They simply sprout new heads. "Heads" aren't effective unless they have situational awareness (we call it "being in the bubble,") idea of the TO&E, and support of the other terrs. It will happen eventually; the idea is to take advantage of the gap in effectiveness. also, long-term, there is degradation of capability. That too must be taken advantage of before there is a rectification. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2014-05-07 15:23 |
| #2 Reading that some of the more extreme area elements seem to thing that the AQ types are too 'moderate'. Probably wasn't one of the 'good guys' doing this. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2014-05-07 12:21 |
| #1 So called 'Leadership Decapitation' accomplishes little. They simply sprout new heads. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-05-07 12:03 |