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| U.S. Wages '20 Raids in 24 Hours' in Iraq and Syria |
| 2014-10-01 |
| [AnNahar] U.S. warplanes kept up air raids against Islamic State Lions of Islam near a contested town on Syria's border with Turkey on Tuesday, part of more than 20 air strikes in 24 hours in Syria and Iraq, the Pentagon said. In one of the heaviest rounds of bombing since Washington expanded its air war against the Islamic State (IS) group into Syria a week ago, American fighter jets and drone aircraft carried out 11 strikes in Syria and 11 raids in Iraq on Monday and Tuesday, U.S. Central Command (Centcom) said in a statement. American aircraft hit IS fighters near the Turkish border in an area east of Ain al-Arab, known as Kobane in Kurdish, which has come under mounting threat from the jihadists. Three strikes near Kobane "destroyed" an IS artillery piece, damaged another and destroyed two rocket launchers, said Central Command, which oversees American forces in the Middle East. U.S. forces started targeting the IS group around Kobane over the weekend after urgent appeals from Kurdish leaders for help to defend the town. In northeast Syria, U.S. forces conducted five air raids near the Iraqi border area of Sinjar, targeting an artillery piece, a tank, three armed vehicles, an observation post and four IS "fighting positions," it said. In eastern Syria, U.S. aircraft carried out two bombing raids near Deir Ezzor, destroying an IS armored vehicle and another vehicle. And northeast of the city of Aleppo, one bombing run destroyed four IS buildings, Centcom said. In Iraq, where Kurdish forces have launched an offensive against the IS group on three fronts, U.S. military aircraft carried out seven strikes in the country's northwest -- two near djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... dam, one northwest of Baghdad and one in west Fallujah, ... the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called Center of Prosperityor a really nice place to raise your kids... according to Central Command. The seven raids in the northwest destroyed an IS armored vehicle, two transport vehicles, and four armed vehicles while damaging another, it said. Around Mosul Dam, two strikes destroyed an IS position and an armed vehicle. Northwest of Baghdad, one All U.S. aircraft safely left the area safely after the air raids, it said. Human rights monitors say the U.S. air raids have killed and maimed civilians in Syria over the past week but the Pentagon has said it has been unable to confirm the reports. U.S. planes have flown roughly 4,100 sorties in the air war against the jihadists in Iraq and Syria since August 8, including surveillance flights, refueling runs and bombing raids. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #3 20 air raids is a limp johnson response probably due to fear of ground to air missles or lack of FO's on the ground. Hardly worth mentioning. |
| Posted by: Alpha2c 2014-10-01 23:15 |
| #2 Syrian Kurds still haven't gotten much in the way of weapons from us (the Iraqi Kurds have gotten some weapons and are mostly on the offensive against ISIS). |
| Posted by: lord garth 2014-10-01 14:00 |
| #1 4100 sorties (air strikes, refueling, and surveillance) is nearly 76 per day. For comparison, 100,000 sorties were flown against Iraq during the first Gulf War during a time period of 37 days (Jan. 17, 1991 to February 23, 1991). |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-10-01 12:09 |