Posted on 09/16/2014 8:50:40 AM PDT by GonzoII
Iraqi security forces Tuesday recaptured several villages in heavy clashes with extremist insurgent groups, while US warplanes expanded their airstrikes and pounded Islamic State militants near Iraq's capital Baghdad.
A senior Iraqi security spokesman said the US air force carried out the first airstrike under a new anti-IS plan on positions of the IS militants in Sadr al-Yousifiyah area, southwest of Baghdad, according to Xinhua.
"The airstrike was important and was carried out in coordination with Baghdad Operations Command," military spokesman Qasim Atta told reporters in Baghdad.
Sadr al-Yousifiyah is located on the Euphrates river between the militant-seized city of Fallujah, some 50 km west of Baghdad, and the battlefield of Jurf al-Sakhar, south of Sadr al-Yousifiyah.
The US airstrike was the first step of the US plan to expand fighting against the IS militants and provide support to the Iraqi security forces while they were engaging in fighting with the extremist militants near Baghdad.
The US Central Command confirmed the airstrike Monday night and said it was in support of the Iraqi forces southwest of Baghdad.
In Iraq's eastern province of Diyala, the Kurdish forces of Peshmerga freed three villages outside the town of Qara-Tabba, 175 km northeast of Baghdad, after fierce clashes with militant groups, including those affiliated to the IS, a provincial police source told Xinhua.
Also in the province, an Iraqi warplane carried out an airstrike late Monday night on the small dam of al-Sudour, some 30 km east of the provincial capital city of Baquba, and managed to destroy one of the dam's gates, which had been blocked by the IS militants to prevent the water from reaching the city of Baldruz, just east of Baquba, city council member Mu'ayad Nowruz, told Xinhua.
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ISIL IS ISIS!!!
Pounds...but sounds like a single strike????
But IS ISIS ISIL...?
Obama is one crafty @$$.
The weakness in the ISIS strategy is in it’s rapid desire to conquer town after town. What they are then left holding are islands of survivors of their crimes, cut off from their command and control. All we need to do is surround each town or area they attacked, and play whack-Abdul. The speed at which they conquered their victims is their undoing. They have no forward bases or supply lines. Their real cause was to rob the banks, extract all the liquid assets of their victims, and send it to their ISIS treasury. Once this has been accomplished, the ISIS command would just as soon see their own fighters killed to reduce overheads and minimize CIA interrogations producing names and places.
True. My wife and I pulled up a map of Levant the night of Obie’s speech and discussed that very thing.
They had to put God back in, however they successfully scuttled the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. All in the plan, man.
Still makes me scratch my head.
I had forgotten about that. Thanks for the reminder.
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