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Iraq
French warplanes hit ISIS command center west of Mosul: Official
2015-11-25
[AlAhram] French warplanes hit 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
Lion of Islam group command center near its key western Iraqi stronghold of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, an official said Tuesday.

The target was reached" in the nearby city of Tal Afar, the French official said, adding that the Rafale fighter aircraft took off from the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier in the eastern Mediterranean.

In Gay Paree, the military said the strike was led with the US Air Force.
Posted by:trailing wife

#2  We need to be on the same side as the Frogs and Russers, I dunno how to get there.

Indeed. Go Frogs! Go Rus! Beat Barbarians!

At this point, the best we can hope is our brave decisive POTUS standing on the sidelines issuing grave condemnations and soggy platitudes. I just hope he has smoke alarms what with all those strawmen.
Posted by: SteveS   2015-11-25 14:59  

#1  During this seemingly quiet moment the BEF is being moved under close convoy to the fron.t

We are staggering into some sort of stupid damn war, it makes no damn sense, we'll likely be on the wrong damn side.

We need to be on the same side as the Frogs and Russers, I dunno how to get there.
Posted by: Shipman   2015-11-25 13:26  

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