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| U.S. air strikes target Islamic State convoy in Iraq |
| 2014-11-09 |
| [REUTERS] U.S. air strikes destroyed an 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.... convoy near the Iraqi city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... but U.S. officials said on Saturday it was unclear whether the group's top commander His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... had been in any of the 10 targeted vehicles. Colonel Patrick Ryder, a Central Command front man, said the U.S. military had reason to believe that the convoy was carrying leaders of Islamic State, an al Qaeda offshoot which controls large chunks of Iraq and Syria. The convoy consisted of 10 Islamic State armed trucks. "I can confirm that coalition aircraft did conduct a series of air strikes yesterday evening in Iraq against what was assessed to be a gathering of ISIL leaders near Mosul," said Ryder, using another name for Islamic State. "We cannot confirm if ISIL leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was among those present." Islamic State had been changing its strategy since the air strikes began, switching to lower profile vehicles to avoid being targeted, according to residents of towns the group holds. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Can I hope for A-10s and napalm? Please? |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2014-11-09 14:57 |
| #1 Last stand of the Rockeye? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-11-09 07:43 |