US airstrikes on ISIS in Libya
Fox News report that US F-15 aircraft struck a terrorist encampment in Libya in an attempt to take out Noureddine Chouchane, the mastermind of the attack on tourists in Tunisia last year;
Local reports initially suggested that more than 30 people had been killed. However, it was not immediately clear how many ISIS terrorists were among the dead.
Chouchane is thought to have directed the March 18 attack on the Bardo Museum in Tunis, in which 24 people were killed, many of them foreign tourists. He is also believed to have some connection to the June 26 attack on a resort hotel near the Tunisian city of Sousse, where an ISIS gunman killed 38 people.
President Barack Obama last week directed his national security team to bolster counterterrorism efforts in Libya while also pursuing diplomatic possibilities for solving its political crisis and forming a government of national unity.
The Guardian bumps up the number of casualties among the terrorists to 41. The New York Times says that US sources claimed that the fighters were mostly Tunisian and it appeared that they were planning new attacks.
Jamal Naji Zubia, the head of the foreign news media office in Tripoli, said the airstrikes targeted a farmhouse that had been seized by Islamic State militants. Most of those killed were Tunisian, he said, although one man, who died from his wounds at a hospital, appeared to be Jordanian.
Fighters had been arriving at the house for some time, Mr. Zubia said, although the exact affiliation of the group was a mystery to neighbors. “They came individually to the house from different places,” he said. Some officials in the area said they believed the Tunisians had gathered at the house to hear a speech by a Muslim religious leader, he said.
Te Times also reports that the poor ISIS fellows were mostly killed in their sleep. Too bad, so sad. It’s nice to see this administration actually do something deadly to terrorists for a change.
Category: Terror War
there was a strike on an ISIS cash depository the other day, too. Paper bills flying through the air like snowflakes. Did my heart good to see it.
“Americans. We’ll kill you in your sleep on
Christmas Eve.”
http://smallwarsjournal.com/documents/americansxmaseve.pdf
“Most of those killed were Tunisian, he said, although one man, who died from his wounds at a hospital, appeared to be Jordanian.”
Appeared to be Jordanian? How the…forget it.
Cav, in Jordan they do circumcisions with pinking shears.
They call them, um, how do you say “frilly dilly” in Arabic?
I’m surprised you didn’t know that. Betcha Hondo does.
I wasn’t a zoomie, so please forgive my lack of knowledge of platforms, but isn’t the F-15 made for air to air fighting?
Or is it a dual usage platform?
http://www.af.mil/AboutUs/FactSheets/Display/tabid/224/Article/104499/f-15e-strike-eagle.aspx
Thanks AW1Ed, that looks like a mighty bad MFer.
The F-15E is a two-seat version, with all sorts of additions for the ground attack / precision strike role.
I beleive they call them “Mud Hens”.
The did a whole bunch of damage in Desert Storm.
“The Times also reports that the poor ISIS fellows were mostly killed in their sleep. Too bad, so sad.”
This reminds me of a story I heard about Marines in the Pacific. A squad of Marines were checking out an area and found a sleeping Jap. One of the Vets in the squad took out his pistol to do him in. He aimed it at the Jap’s head,, then shifted his aim and shot he Jap in the toe.
The Jap of course jumped up and the Marine shot him graveyard dead. The rest of the squad looked at the old vet who said ” I wanted the son of a bitch to see who killed him”