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2014-09-23 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
US, Arab Allies Launch First Wave of Strikes in Syria
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Posted by Sherry 2014-09-23 01:09|| || Front Page|| [11138 views ]  Top

#1 Reported -- F22's being used -- first time in combat.....
Posted by Sherry 2014-09-23 01:54||   2014-09-23 01:54|| Front Page Top

#2 If you told me a year ago Sunnis would be bombing Sunnis, I wouldn't have believed you.

Jordan excepted BTW.
Posted by phil_b 2014-09-23 03:01||   2014-09-23 03:01|| Front Page Top

#3 I guess the generals won that argument... or perhaps the Saudis did. One hopes Syria's Assad was given a few minutes warning.
Posted by trailing wife 2014-09-23 03:14||   2014-09-23 03:14|| Front Page Top

#4 First reports had it that jets from Bahrain and Qatar were used. Later reports imply the airbase at Qatar was used as command and control, nada mas. Nothing more on Bahrain. Number of planes used by UAE, Saudi Arabia and Jordan unreported. Number of sorties unreported.
Posted by Beldar Sloque3832 2014-09-23 06:23||   2014-09-23 06:23|| Front Page Top

#5 I'm reasonably certain the regime coordinated the strikes with the Assad government in some manner. The early tip-off was when we were told by Washington that "there would be no coordination with Assad." Vlad or the Iranians may have even provided targeting folders.

The absence of any wild protestations from the Syrian Government or the Russians, should confirm my suspicions.
Posted by Besoeker 2014-09-23 06:24||   2014-09-23 06:24|| Front Page Top

#6 Assad probably assisted in providing intelligence for target selection. This will be a cluster within a month.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2014-09-23 08:51||   2014-09-23 08:51|| Front Page Top

#7 On the radio it mentioned Al Qaeda targets I guess those were thrown in so the law that Obama was originally against authorizing strikes can now be leveraged without requesting permission from Congress.
Posted by airandee 2014-09-23 09:05||   2014-09-23 09:05|| Front Page Top

#8 Who's handing out the IFF codes? You think Russian Syrian pilots are on the distribution list? What happens if one comes within AA missile firing distance or AAA missile battery range (lights up the radar)? Or is it 'if it flies, it dies' the ROE?
Posted by Procopius2k 2014-09-23 09:24||   2014-09-23 09:24|| Front Page Top

#9 Somehow the virulent ideology that creates such groups as ISIS and AQ will have to be addressed or the Whack-a-Mole terrorist problem will keep coming up.

This is going to go on for awhile. At least the price of belonging to a terrorist group has been upped.
Posted by JohnQC 2014-09-23 09:33||   2014-09-23 09:33|| Front Page Top

#10 What happens if one comes within AA missile firing distance or AAA missile battery range (lights up the radar)? Or is it 'if it flies, it dies' the ROE?

I would suspect that an 'understanding' was reached within the AO and flight corridors, since IS doesn't have any known operable high-speed aircraft.
Posted by Pappy 2014-09-23 10:17||   2014-09-23 10:17|| Front Page Top

#11 Beo: The absence of any wild protestations from the Syrian Government or the Russians, should confirm my suspicions.

WashPo: Russia Condemns US Airstrikes Against Islamic State
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-09-23 11:02||   2014-09-23 11:02|| Front Page Top

#12 Yes Snowy, I saw that as well. Perhaps this is the standard Russian media line intended for the motherland proles. Appears Bashar Assad has given the thumbs up or "buy in."


Russia is insistent that U.S. measures to target militants in Syria lack authority without buy-in from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad — a point Russian President Vladimir Putin stressed to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon Tuesday."
Posted by Besoeker 2014-09-23 17:23||   2014-09-23 17:23|| Front Page Top

#13 Holder: Al-Qaida offshoot hit by airstrikes was close to attack on U.S., allies

But, but, but..... I thought there was "no immediate threat".....?
Posted by Besoeker 2014-09-23 17:37||   2014-09-23 17:37|| Front Page Top

#14 Didn't these countries all fly with us during the first Gulf War against Saddam? So yeah it can be coordinated and carried out. Best part we used the confusion to finally bomb the Kardasians, in Brentwood, LA I think.
Posted by Chater Creash8965 2014-09-23 17:40||   2014-09-23 17:40|| Front Page Top

#15 Approxi 14 ISIS targets + 8 "Khorasan Group" were attacked.

* BLOOMBERG > "IMMINENT ATTACK" ON US PROMPTED STRIKES ON KHORASAN GROUP.

As per CNN AM, looks like the US was the only non-Muslim nation participating in the attacks.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-09-23 19:47||   2014-09-23 19:47|| Front Page Top

#16 The Syrian Observatory of Human Rights = SOHR sezzes the AL-NUSRA Boyz were also hit.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-09-23 22:19||   2014-09-23 22:19|| Front Page Top

#17 S'what comes from relying on Assad's lads for targeting info.
Posted by Pappy 2014-09-23 22:36||   2014-09-23 22:36|| Front Page Top

#18 * MANILA TIMES > AT LEAST 120 JIHADISTS DEAD IN US-LED SYRIA STRIKES, MONITOR SAYS [SOHR].

Approximately ...
> 70 ISIS.
> 50 Al-Qaeda.
> Eight civilians repor killed.
> 300 injured.

VERSUS

* RUSSIA TODAY > AIRSTRIKES ALONE WON'T HELP US TO FIGHT ISIS, SYRIAN FM [Walid Moualem] TO RT ARABIC.

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > IRAQI PM [Al-Abadi] RETIRES TWO TOP GENERALS AFTER "ISLAMIC STATE" CONQUESTS | REUTERS.

GENS. Ali Ghaidan [Iraqi Army Chief], + Abboud Qanbar [Iraq Defence Ministry's Acting Sec-Gen].

And the fact that these now-Ex-Iraqi Top Eggs are also top Al-Maliki supporters has abolsutely positively categorically undeniably ... ...@etc. NOTHING TO DO WID ANYTHING!
Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-09-23 22:53||   2014-09-23 22:53|| Front Page Top

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