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| U.S.-Led Strikes Hit Islamic State 'Capital' |
| 2014-12-01 |
| [AnNahar] A wave of U.S.-led air strikes have struck at least 30 targets around the Syrian city of Raqa, the self-proclaimed capital of the 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.... group, a monitor said Sunday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the strikes took place before midnight Saturday and hit 30 targets on the northern outskirts of Raqa. They also hit Division 17, a Syrian army base the jihadist group captured earlier this year. Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman said the strikes had caused casualties but there was no immediate toll. "The strikes hit IS positions, and there are certainly casualties among their forces," he said. The waves of hits was one of the larger actions carried out by the coalition, Abdel Rahman added. "We can't say it's the largest set of raids they have carried out, but it's been a long time since we've seen this number of targets hit," he said. The U.S.-led coalition began carrying out air strikes against the Islamic State group on September 23. The strikes have killed at least 963 people, including 838 IS jihadists and 72 members of al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate Al-Nusra ...the current nom de guerre of al-Qaeda in the Levant, which isn't to be confused with al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Levant... Front. Another 52 civilians have also been killed, along with one Islamist rebel, according to the Observatory. Syria's regime has also continued to hit IS in Raqa, though its raids have regularly killed large numbers of civilians. The Observatory said regime planes carried out one strike in Raqa on Saturday that killed at least seven civilians. And on Wednesday, regime raids on Raqa killed at least 95 people, over half of them civilians, the monitoring group said. |
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| Posted by: Shipman 2014-12-01 16:51 |
| #1 killed at least 95 people, over half of them civilians Card-carrying civilians, were they? The only ones to be sure about are those too young or too infirm to pick up an AK-47, and that doesn't exclude too many. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2014-12-01 13:15 |