Their second strike was today:
French Warplanes Kill 75 IS Militants Near Mosul
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Posted on 09/20/2014 6:00:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
BAGHDAD: France carried out its first air strike against the Islamic State group in Iraq on Friday, boosting US-led efforts to unite the world against the growing threat posed by the Jihadists.
More than a decade after Paris famously refused to back the invasion of Iraq, France became the first nation to join the US campaign of air strikes in the war-torn country.
“This morning at 9:40, our Rafale planes carried out a first strike against a logistics depot of the terrorist organisation (IS),” President Francois Hollande said.
His office said the target was in northeastern Iraq, without specifying exactly where, only adding: “The objective was hit and completely destroyed.
“French defence ministry sources said two jets dropped laser-guided GBU-12 bombs in the Mosul area.
Kurdish military spokesman Halgord Hekmat identified the location as Tal Mus, between the city of Mosul and Zumar.
“We are very happy that France started its raids,” he told AFP.
France, as well as Britain, had already sent aircraft into Iraq’s skies for surveillance missions but Friday’s strike was its first against the Jihadists.
US aircraft have carried out more than 170 strikes since August 8 but President Barack Obama has been keen to build a broad international coalition.
The bombing campaign was launched to protect Iraqi Kurdistan from advancing Jihadists and attempt to help the autonomous region’s troops retake the ground they lost.
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One strike by France and Obama is redeemed. Probably an American pilot.
Air strikes by the frogs? What were they doing, throwing quiche across the border?
Ballsy considering how many much enemy they have on their own blocks.
Expect to see cars burned, looting and whites beheaded in Paris
Their second strike was today:
French Warplanes Kill 75 IS Militants Near Mosul
Bon Appétit!
Bon Appétit!
“One strike by France and Obama is redeemed. Probably an American pilot.”
Did we pay for the gas and the bomb?
We probably paid France out of the money Congress just gave Obama.
The French and the Americans are not the only ones in the fight—also Russia, flying in russian jets, wearing Iraq Colors, piloted by Russian pilots—they have been hitting ISIS too.
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