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| US military confirms airstrikes in Iraq near Erbil and Mosul dam |
| 2014-08-17 |
| [Iran Press TV] The US military confirms it has conducted ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... dam to help Peshmerga Kurdish forces to retake the dam from krazed killers. The ISIL terrorist group, which is operating in Iraq and Syria, captured Iraq's largest dam earlier this month, raising concerns that the turbans could attempt to flood cities and cut off vital water and electricity supplies. "The nine air strikes conducted thus far destroyed or damaged four armored personnel carriers, seven armed vehicles, two Humvees and an armored vehicle," the US Central Command said in a statement issued on Saturday. CENTCOM "conducted these strikes under authority to support humanitarian efforts in Iraq, as well as to protect US personnel and facilities," it added. "All aircraft exited the strike areas safely." On August 7, US President Barack Obama Republicans can come along for the ride, but they've got to sit in the back... authorized the use of force against ISIL and later promised to continue Obama said that On Saturday, Obama said US Thousands of Izadis were trapped on Mount Sinjar without food and water after fleeing the advance of ISIL. They were at risk of dying from dehydration and starvation atop the mountain as turbans had vowed to kill them if they descended. In an interview with Press TV on August 12, American antiwar activist Joe Iosbaker said the US invokes the doctrine of humanitarian intervention to advance its corporate interests. "The US has used the claim that this is a humanitarian mission to save religious minorities, including Christians. The B.O. regime has no impulse to save religious minorities in Syria from the same fate however. How could this be that the border between Iraq and Syria is some kind of demarcation point for the US government's humanitarian actions?" Iosbaker stated. "Of course, humanitarian intervention is just one of the ruses used by the spin doctors in the White House to justifying their actions," he added. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 As per CNN this AM, number of US airstrikes is up to 14. However, KurdisH forces = Peshmerga have repor captured only parts of the dam as yet, NOT THE WHOLE. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2014-08-17 22:19 |
| #3 Amazing that I agree with Obama - in Syria pretty much all the fighting parties are bad, and there's no practical way to intervene on behalf of the poor, persecuted religious minorities - sucks to be them. In Iraq however, we can provide help to the Kurds, which can be of some benefit to their poor, persecuted minorities - still sucks to be them, but not quite as much. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2014-08-17 17:11 |
| #2 How about Iran? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-08-17 08:19 |
| #1 Just don't hit the dam. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-08-17 06:20 |