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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Nevski on November 16, 2015, 08:33:56 AM
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Pentagon reveals it took out entire fleet of trucks in one blow, as part of campaign to 'degrade financial ability' of richest terror group.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/203462
Strikes by the US-led air coalition fighting the Islamic State (ISIS) group destroyed 116 fuel trucks used by the jihadist organization in eastern Syria, the Pentagon said on Monday.
In a statement, the Pentagon said the trucks were destroyed in a single strike on Sunday near Albu Kamal, an ISIS-held town in Deir Ezzor province along Syria's border with Iraq.
ISIS controls most of the oil-rich Deir Ezzor province and part of the city, but has tried for months to seize all of the provincial capital.
Coalition forces conducted ten strikes in northern, central, and eastern Syria on Sunday, in one of the highest number of raids for the campaign in weeks.
The statement said 13 strikes were carried out in various parts of Iraq on Sunday as well.
A spokesman for the coalition told AFP the strikes were not the first against ISIS fuel trucks, but added "it's the first time that we've hit so many at once."
The trucks had been parked at the time of the strikes, and were "getting ready to either be filled or moved to sell whatever they had in them," he said.
ISIS reportedly makes millions of dollars in revenue from oil fields under its control, and the US-led coalition has regularly targeted oil infrastructure held by the group.
"Our spokesperson Colonel (Steve) Warren previously stated that we were going to start going after ISIL's financial abilities," the spokesman said, using another acronym for the group. "This strike was part of that strategy to start degrading their financial ability."
ISIS has declared a self-styled caliphate in swathes of territory it seized in Iraq and Syria but has faced recent setbacks from Kurdish and Arab forces in Iraq's Sinjar and parts of northeastern Syria.
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I do not trust anything Israel National News (Arutz 7) says a long time ago due to their insane pro American position. Do not get Me wrong, I have nothing against the United States Himself but I do not blindly trust its government either. Reports from all over the world indicate that the US, along with Turkey and the Gulf states are main suppliers of ISIS.
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I do not trust anything Israel National News (Arutz 7) says a long time ago due to their insane pro American position. Do not get Me wrong, I have nothing against the United States Himself but I do not blindly trust its government either. Reports from all over the world indicate that the US, along with Turkey and the Gulf states are main suppliers of ISIS.
A person would be stupid to trust in the US to be honest.
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I find it odd that a bunch of cavemen have this much arms. They have trouble wiping themselves.
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I find it odd that a bunch of cavemen have this much arms. They have trouble wiping themselves.
Yet it seems the staff at Israel National News trusts the report of the Obama administration.
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They enjoy Obongo's bongo drumming
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Whatever it was done but it was done good.
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Whatever it was done but it was done good.
Well thats for sure.