Maybe they're using taters?
Posted on 09/22/2014 8:29:02 AM PDT by GonzoII
United states warplanes target the center of the Yazidi town Sinjar in northern Iraq.
According to a Kurdish Yazidi Peshmerga commander on Mount Sinjar, Kurdish Worker’s Party (PKK) guerrillas are obstructing US and Yezidi Peshmarga attacks in Sinjar.
The commander, Qasim Shashou, claimed that in collaboration with the Peshmerga, US jets have successfully bombed the center of Sinjar and have inflicted heavy losses on the Islamic State (IS) militants.
“We are ready to advance into Sinjar and we have a strong, coordinated plan. However PKK fighters, who call themselves the Sinjar people’s protection force, are making it difficult for us to achieve our aims,” Shashou added.
Shashou revealed that the PKK fighters are distributing conflicting information and randomly advancing into some areas, therefore placing difficulties in the path of the Peshmerga and the US air force.
Last month, Islamic State militants captured Sinjar along with other nearby areas, killing hundreds and forcing thousands of inhabitants to flee their homes. Islamic State militants still occupy some positions in Sinjar. The Peshmerga, the US and other forces are focusing their efforts into liberating the city from the hands of IS.
US planes Shelling again
If I had a Sinjar, I would pray to be kept from the temptation to open it.
Damn ... I’ll need to go back and take some remedial geography classes. Where is Sinjar? And what is this BassNews from gErbil-stan? Is it a trustworthy news source - or just more fish wrap like the NYT?
have to avoid the word “bombing”,
Maybe they're using taters?
It’s going to be too expensive to change all those t-shirts and bumper stickers to “Food not Shells”.
Only an AC-130 with the cannon can be “shelling” as far as I know.
Yes.
Are we sure the Peshmerga is having them hit ISIS and not the PKK?
PKK are Kurds from Turkey aren’t they?
Well, it is possible, but I doubt they are referring to an AC-130
Right but they are in NW Iraq and NE Syria also.
Stop spreading rumors;0)
The Nobel Prize was conditional upon Obola doing this.
A-10 could be accused of shelling.
Actually very few Fighter aircraft in the US arsenal have “machine guns” but rather only cannons.
f-18 has the M61A1/A2 Vulcan 20mm cannon
F-16 has an internal M61 Vulcan cannon
F-15 has the M-61A1 20mm Vulcan cannon
F-22 has the newer M61A2 cannon
F-35 the GAU-22/A 25 mm 4-barreled gatling cannon
Too bad they can’t Nape the animals.
Have we bombed their IS oil fields yet?
When we do I’ll know VJ and her cronies are serious about defeating IS.
I had no idea that the USAF had aircraft-mounted Howitzers. Wow, what will they think of next?
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