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| France Launches Fresh Strikes against IS in Iraq | |
| 2014-10-21 | |
| [AnNahar] French fighter jets have carried out a third round of air strikes against 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... jihadists in support of Iraqi ground forces, the defense ministry said Monday. Two Rafale jets on Sunday destroyed two pick-up trucks belonging to the murderous Moslem group, which has seized vast swaths of Iraq and Syria.
"After they were identified and confirmed as hostile by the Rafale pilots, they were targeted with three laser-guided GBU 12 bombs." La Belle France carried out its first strikes under Operation Chammal, on September 19, after joining a U.S.-led coalition battling the jihadists. A second round took place on September 25. Fighter jets previously destroyed a logistics warehouse and four hangars containing military equipment used by IS Death Eaters. La Belle France has nine fighter jets stationed at its Al Dhafra military base in the United Arab Emirates. The United States first launched strikes in Iraq on August 8 and widened its campaign on September 23 to include Syria, where the IS group has its headquarters. So far, the coalition has attracted dozens of countries, though only a handful of Arab allies -- Bahrain, Jordan, 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... , Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and the United Arab Emirates -- are participating in the strikes on Syria. Five European countries have committed aircraft to Iraq only -- Belgium, Britannia, Denmark, La Belle France and the Netherlands -- but Britannia and La Belle France are the only ones so far to have carried out strikes. | |
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| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-10-21 16:09 |
| #2 From the vids, mostly Russian schtuff. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2014-10-21 07:25 |
| #1 So what kind of armor is ISIS tootling around in? T-60s? M-60s? T-72? I don't know what the aversion to bombing the armor is because most of their stuff is worth more as scrap metal than on the arms market.. |
| Posted by: Mystic 2014-10-21 04:47 |