Iraqi warplanes pounded multiple sites in the northwestern city of Mosul today, with locals saying the strikes destroyed four homes and killed a number of civilians.
Though the Iraqi military has refused to confirm or deny the incidents, MPs did say the strikes were carried out, bragging that a number of ISIS militants were slain in the attack.
Mosul is the largest city in ISIS’s new nation, which it calls The Islamic State (TIS). Caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the chief of ISIS, was shown giving sermons in Mosul on Friday.
The strikes in Mosul appeared to have accomplished little, and with the Iraqi military far away from the city it doesn’t seem like the strikes have much hope of helping them retake the city. If anything, it is likely to secure local support for ISIS.
ISIS has seized a lot of advanced military equipment in and around Mosul from fleeing Iraqi forces, and seems in position to retain the important city for a long time to come.
What I want to know who ordered all that Toyota Tacoma trucks for these barbarians and savages to occupy Mosul, these truck can not dropped out of sky with a sign saying given by allah, somewhere, someone, somehow have paid for these trucks so they been used for these barbarians to take Mosul.
Whatever Iraqi government or others are doing to defeat these savages from hell, is the right of the Iraqi people and rest of nations in Middle East.
Ask either Obama, McCain or the Saudi Rulers. They might know the answer.
"there are no comments posted for the NSA yet. Be the first one!"
Hey, Hey O bomb, eh? How many kids did you drone today?
The USG, at least for now, won't be able to use its vaunted
F-35 (Joint Strike Force) jets in any raids against ISIS.
The entire fleet costing US taxpayers 400 Billion (With a B)
was grounded after some jets in the fleet experienced an
(in-flight) oil leak.
Obozo is one of the biggest scams sold to the American public.
His campaign rhetoric touting (change) was subterfuge (which)
many Americans, including (myself), bought into. Nothing changed.
The MIC is still (bilking) US taxpayers out of ($$$$$$$$) for
busted programs like the F-35 JSF, and the Obozo healthcare
plan is a boondoggle, written in a backroom by pharmaceutical
companies and big business. I will leave his immigration reform,
drone killings, and NSA debacles for another time.
One assumes that all factions in the Iraq war will be anxious to sell their oil to finance their war, or more likely to enrich the gangsters running them. The obvious policy here is to remove all sanctions and legal restrictions on oil sales, to ensure our supply is kept up. A really radical move would be to remove sanctions on Iranian oil, so both Shia and Sunni could compete. This drove oil prices down to only slightly above what they should have been during the Iran-Iraq war. Of course the lowering of oil prices is the last thing the Arabs, OPEC, the oil companies, and the governments that profit from the increased taxes on more expensive oil want, so I'm not holding my breath waiting for it to happen. Instead there's this push to aid the Shiite terrorists to retain their hold on the whole of Iraq. Meanwhile, these same Sunni terrorists we oppose in Iraq are the ones we're supposed to be supporting in Syria!! Go figure.
Only a Kool-Aid saturated anti-Muslim bigot equates Muslim with terrorist. Just because the neocon-ruled USG or the Zionist criminals of Likud call someone a terrorist doesn't make it so. In fact, the reality is just the opposite: the massive military might of the Zionist criminals and their US attack poodle, in their effort to subdue the world by subversion, violence, and the threat of violence is ***BY FAR*** the greatest source or terrorism in the world, with tens of millions dead and tormented from Vietnam to Indonesia to Central America to Angola to Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, and lately Ukraine.
The USG and the Zionists are the real terrorists.
"…strikes in Mosul appeared to have accomplished little…"
"Au contraire, mon ami…" Given the following: Mosul is a Sunni city, held by Sunni ISIS (and many welcoming Sunni Mosul citizens) being attacked by Iraqi airforce with Shiite pilots ordered by beleagured Shiite Prime Minister using intelligence assistance from Shiite Iranian Quds military analysts – as well as friend-for-a-day American "advisors" and munitions and Russian aircraft.
This is a religious sectarian war so the intent of the air attacks, since there are no ground forces to take over the city, is to destroy the city. I don't expect the attacks to stop and when the dust clears what will be left will resemble what the Americans did to Fallujah – the near obliteration of an entire city with no regard for the non-combatants.
This is what the attacks are accomplishing…
Indeed, these are terror attacks meant to punish the Sunnis for siding with ISIS, and to get them fleeing Mosul so that Maliki can turn it into battlefield/wasteland/free-fire zone.