Posted on 08/20/2014 9:06:20 AM PDT by GonzoII
WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. official says American fighter jets and drones conducted nearly a dozen airstrikes in Iraq since Tuesday, even as Islamic State militants threatened to kill a second American captive in retribution for any continued strikes. The militants released a video Tuesday showing U.S. journalist James Foley being beheaded.
The official says the airstrikes were in the area of the Mosul Dam and were aimed at helping Iraqi and Kurdish forces create a buffer zone at the key facility. The strikes have helped Iraqi and Kurdish troops reclaim the dam from the insurgents.
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They need to break out the bombers and carpet bomb them back into Syria!
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Great picture.
If they aren’t dropping nukes, they aren’t doing enough.
This must stop! They will capture more liberal journalists and behead them! Stop the airstrikes NOW!!!!
In effect those innocents butchered by the Islamic fiends die for a good cause: killing terrorist Islamics.
They need to support Assad to the west, block ISIS off, and disintegrate them.
Aren’t Obama and McCain on ISIS’s side in Syria?
It does seem that they planted and nourished that garden. Time to plow over that garden. It's grown into deadly weeds.
Has Clown Prince nobama returned his “peace prize” to oslo as yet?
Daisy cutter time.
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