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| U.S. Warplanes Destroy 283 Fuel Trucks in Syria | |
| 2015-11-24 | |
...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.... group in eastern Syria, officials said Monday. The huge air raid is another milestone as the U.S.-led coalition intensifies its campaign against the jihadists and focuses on their oil-smuggling infrastructure, estimated to net the group some $500 million a year. Pentagon front man Captain Jeff Davis said the strike occurred Saturday between Al Hasakah and Dayr Az Zawr in the east. It came less than a week after another, similar strike destroyed 116 IS fuel trucks. Just as in that earlier case, U.S. jets on Saturday first conducted a low-flying "show of force" over the trucks, then dropped leaflets telling drivers to flee. The Pentagon says that while the trucks were being used to support the IS group, the drivers themselves were not thought to be jihadists. U.S. A-10 air-to-ground attack planes and AC-130 gunships then destroyed the tankers, Davis said, adding there had been no reports of civilian casualties. "We have very methodically gone through this to ensure that we are doing this in a way that is humane and not going to cause civilian casualties," Davis said, while "also recognizing the fact that these trucks are an integral link in the revenue stream that is providing revenue ... to ISIL." Russia, which is conducting a separate air campaign in Syria, claims to have destroyed dozens of fuel trucks and has declared a "free hunt" for any trucks carrying oil "belonging to terrorists" in IS-controlled areas. A U.S. military front man said that in the earlier U.S. strike that destroyed 116 trucks, the leaflets dropped stated: "Get out of your trucks now, and run away from them." | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #6 The US repor believes that the truck drivers may be Civilians forced or hired by the ISIS to drive the trucks, but are not actually memebers or part of the ISIS??? * OTOH LUCIANNE > [Washington Examiner] US RAN OUT OF AMMO IN ATTACK ON ISIS TRUCKS. Allegations of poor attack planning or incompetence based on the premise that iff the US = US Fed-DOD believed that the ISIS/ISIL relied heavily or excessively on Energy = Oil-Gas sales to third-parties via road-mobile vehicles for income, WHY DID IT PLAN AIR STRIKES OR AIR ATTACKS AGZ SAME WIDOUT ENOUGH MUNITIONS??? * BHARAT RAKSHAK > [Red Flag News] US PILOTS: OBAMA BLOCKED 75% OF ISIS STRIKES, i.e. AIrtsrikes agz reliable or creditable IS targets. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2015-11-24 22:58 |
| #5 Looks like they were afraid of using the same excuse twice. |
| Posted by: gorb 2015-11-24 11:40 |
| #4 Is this the attack where they ran out of munitions before getting all the trucks? No, that was last week. |
| Posted by: trailing wife on the road 2015-11-24 09:32 |
| #3 Is this the attack where they ran out of munitions before getting all the trucks? I didn't know ISIS HAD that many fuel tankers - Hi-Luxes with a drum in the back? |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2015-11-24 09:04 |
| #2 Yes: Just as in that earlier case, U.S. jets on Saturday first conducted a low-flying "show of force" over the trucks, then dropped leaflets telling drivers to flee. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2015-11-24 08:46 |
| #1 Did they give them a 45 minute head start this time? |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2015-11-24 01:16 |