Posted on 08/15/2014 8:11:55 PM PDT by tcrlaf
U.S. warplanes carried out airstrikes in northern Iraq near ISIS-controlled Mosul Dam early Saturday morning, the Kurdish news agency Rudaw reported, citing eyewitnesses.
CNN confirmed that a U.S. and Iraqi military operation aimed at retaking the country's largest hydroelectric dam from the so-called Islamic State was scheduled to begin early Saturday morning (Friday at 6 p.m. ET).
The operation was to begin with U.S. and Iraqi airstrikes against ISIS positions, with Iraqi and Kurdish Peshmerga forces following up on the ground.
U.S. fighter jets began carrying out the strikes early Saturday morning local time, Rudaw reported
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Same as the Amish and our own envirofreeks? So blow it-—all he way back to the rest of the 12th century.
Ah, C’mon, THINK——how the bleep are we going to get the goat humpers into a SHOWER. They’re still skeered of flush terlets.
If I were the US military I would not want to give ISIS time to wire the dam with explosives. This is a hugely important water and electric dam. The disasterous effects would suck us even much more than we already are with rescues and rebuilding not to mention still trying to get rid of ISIS.
not sure, but you might be thinking about toilet paper...or flush toilets...or medicine
My understanding is that destroying the dam would destroy Mosul, which they still hold, as well as Baghdad, which they hope to seize.
Why not give diplomacy a chance? /s
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