US Airstrike on ISIS conference near Mosul
According to Fox News, US aircraft struck what was thought to be a meeting of ISIS/ISIL/Islamic State leadership;
The airstrikes, that took place near the Iraqi town of Mosul near the Syrian border, destroyed a vehicle convoy of 10 armed trucks. The official offered no further information and said they could not confirm if Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was among those present.
“This strike demonstrates the pressure we continue to place on the ISIL terrorist network and the group’s increasingly limited freedom to maneuver, communicate and command,” a defense official told Fox News.
AFP reports that Iraq is looking into whether or not Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was in the casualties;
The death of the elusive Baghdadi would be a major victory for the coalition of countries carrying out air strikes against IS and aiding Iraqi forces fighting to regain large areas of Iraq that the jihadists have overrun.
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“Until now, there is no accurate information available,” a senior Iraqi intelligence official said when asked about whether Baghdadi had been killed.
“The information is from unofficial sources and was not confirmed until now, and we are working on that,” the official said without specifying what the initial reports indicated.
The ISIS fellows aren’t sitting on their hands, however – they’re moving on Baghdad doing what they do best;
Meanwhile on Saturday, a series of bombings in and around the capital Baghdad killed at least 43 people, with the deadliest blast hitting the city’s sprawling Shiite district of Sadr City, where a car bomb tore through a commercial area, killing 11 people and wounding 21.
There has been an uptick in the number of bombings blamed on Sunni militants in the capital and mostly targeting Shiites, feeding sectarian tensions in the city, as the security forces of the Shiite-led government battle the Sunni militants of the Islamic State group to the west and north of the capital.
And now there will be more than 3000 US troops in the middle of this morass.
Category: Terror War
Great news about the air strike – hope those ten vehicles were nuts to butts with important bad guys…
Call me different, but I am optimistic about the future of this ISIS problem. If you take what is KNOWN about what our special operators have done in the past 13 years, and then get educated about what became declassified in the 1990s regarding special operations in southeast Asia, put it this way: I would hate to be a stupid young Arab terrorist, because they have the wrath and the skill of thousands of good guys after their asses in a big way. We’ll win. It will take time. Duh.
But again, I’m different. I think we won in Vietnam. Look at Vietnam today, in relation to the rest of the world. It is not such a bad place – quite westernized, in fact.
Historians can call me a kook all they want. I couldn’t care less.
You’re not the only one who believes we won in Vietnam.
We won the Vietnam War militarily in the battlefields of Vietnam. We lost the war politically on the streets of the U.S., and in the halls of Congress, thanks mainly to a certain political party, the anti war protesters, and others like them.
I agree with you, I’m a Vietnam vet (70-72) and it’s nonsense to think we lost that war, we left and didn’t support the ARVN. I think ISIL is done for if the pressure is kept up.
I feel the same way, Joe.
“The ISIS fellows aren’t sitting on their hands, however – they’re moving on Baghdad doing what they do best.”
Said it before. ISIS is headed to Baghdad for one reason. The American Embassy in their goal post. They will fight ten times harder than the Iraqis defending Baghdad to take it. As soon as they do, they’ll publicly execute the non essential personnel and hold the rest hostage Tehran style. After all they have two more years of do nothing Obama to, do nothing to them. Except send John (I’m a Vietnam Vet) Kerry to Geneva to give away the farm. It will go on until 2016, just like Tehran when a real leader takes the oath (Remember Carter/Reagan), whoever is left will be released. Because they know, hell is coming.
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer group of guys.
“…The coalition of countries carrying out air strikes against IS and aiding Iraqi forces fighting to regain large areas of Iraq that the jihadists have overrun.”
Sorry, did I miss something? Last I heard, they were trying to stop IS from taking any more ground in Iraq. Taking back what they already have would be kinda getting ahead of themselves at this point, wouldn’t it? I mean, yeah, ultimate goal and all that, but it still seems to me like they need to focus on not getting the shit kicked out of them first.
Of course the Glorious Leader will insist that everything is under control and he’s doing a great job, everything is Bush’s fault, etc. ad nauseum.
This works, too, and is cheaper than an air strike:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/dozen-isis-fighters-killed-after-4590573
1. Block out the sun with drones
2. Once the drones are gone block out sun with bombers
3. once the bombers are gone block out the sun with attack helicopters and a10’s to kill what is still moving
Let’s get this shit done.
Full agreement.
If the Air Force was given a complete green-light on ops in Iraq, ISIS wouldn’t be able to leave a cave (and even then…) without getting vaporized by a JDAM.
Rumor has it the head goat fucker was wounded albeit no information confirming it. Such crappy reporting.