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‘Moron’ terrorist takes a selfie in front of ISIS headquarters, Air Force bombs it 22 hours later
Yahoo Tech ^ | 6/5/15 | Yoni Heisler

Posted on 06/05/2015 9:05:05 AM PDT by Kartographer

Apparently, looks can kill. In a very real story that we assure you did not originate from The Onion, a terrorist from ISIS recently took a selfie of himself and posted it online.

Shortly thereafter, U.S. Intelligence, which heavily monitors social media accounts from ISIS members and supporters, managed to pinpoint an ISIS headquarters building in Syria by using the selfie photo as a reference point.

(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: fail; isis; selfie; selfies; syria; waronterror; win
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Another reason NOT to take a selfie!
1 posted on 06/05/2015 9:05:05 AM PDT by Kartographer
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To: Kartographer

Awesome! Did he have a self stick?


2 posted on 06/05/2015 9:06:55 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: Kartographer

SAFETY TIP OF THE DAY FOR TERRORISTS

Its so nice to see the media give advice to the enemy


3 posted on 06/05/2015 9:08:32 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Claire Wolfe should check her watch. It's time.)
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To: Kartographer

Wunderbar!...... do it again morons!


4 posted on 06/05/2015 9:08:52 AM PDT by high info voter (Liberal leftists would have "un-friended" Paul Revere!)
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To: Kartographer

Assuming he survived, I wonder what this guy’s muslim friends will do to him.


5 posted on 06/05/2015 9:09:10 AM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Evolution!)
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To: Kartographer

So this comes out the day after we learn 75% of the sorties return without dropping their bombs. hmmmmm


6 posted on 06/05/2015 9:11:20 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Kartographer

7 posted on 06/05/2015 9:13:16 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: b4its2late
Awesome! Did he have a self stick?

If he did I bet I know where it ended up!!
8 posted on 06/05/2015 9:13:35 AM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Kartographer

Question: Why didn’t the AF use a small nuke, or at least a Daisy Cutter?


9 posted on 06/05/2015 9:15:23 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim ("Your apathy is their power." - Sarah Palin Jul 19, 2014)
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To: Kartographer

Does the US have to point out all the mistakes our enemies make? Sounds like we are training them to be better at fighting us.

The morons in this story aren’t ISIS

Loose lips sink ships.


10 posted on 06/05/2015 9:15:32 AM PDT by wrench
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To: Kartographer

Cue the Nelson Muntz photo, please...


11 posted on 06/05/2015 9:15:50 AM PDT by DJ Frisat (Proudly providing the NSA with provocative textual content since 1995!)
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To: driftdiver

I sure wouldn’t want to land an airplane WITH ordinance on board.


12 posted on 06/05/2015 9:15:54 AM PDT by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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To: Kartographer
Why would we announce this method of intel? How did we confirm the site and its use? What's to keep ISIS from taking selfies in from of a hospital or similar building and announcing that it's their HQ?

I'd rather not see answers to any of these questions in the media.

13 posted on 06/05/2015 9:17:36 AM PDT by kaboom
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To: kaboom

Probably the automatic/default feature where the photo file contains the gps coordinates of the photo. First good use of this benefit. Thank you Steve Jobs.


14 posted on 06/05/2015 9:19:33 AM PDT by George from New England (escaped CT in 2006, now living north of Tampa)
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To: Kartographer

“”According to Air Force General Hawk Carlisle (which is a perfect name for an Air Force General we must say””

Check out the article in the Air Force Daily Report June 2...this guy has become the latest to curry favor with the CIC. In fact there are quite a few articles featuring this general in that report. I don’t believe he watches the news but he will remain in the military as long as he kisses up to the occupant in the WH.

“”Within the factors under its control, airpower is being highly effective in the anti-ISIS fight, said Air Combat Command boss Gen. Hawk Carlisle on Monday. “We’re taking a serious toll on their morale and capability,” said Carlisle at an AFA-sponsored Air Force breakfast in Arlington, Va. Since last fall, there have been “about 4,200 strikes [and] 14,000 weapons have been dropped. We’ve taken about 13,000 enemy fighters off the battlefield … and despite what has been [said], we have regained territory, about 25 percent” of what ISIS had previously held in Iraq, he said. The air action has been “simply the most precise,” with the “lowest civilian casualties in history,” he said.””


15 posted on 06/05/2015 9:22:33 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: wrench
Does the US have to point out all the mistakes our enemies make? Sounds like we are training them to be better at fighting us.
The morons in this story aren’t ISIS

Agreed. This is just our Government trying to take credit for doing something competent - at the expense of taking on the enemy. Either that, or our Muslim in the White House is warning his compadres not to do this again.

16 posted on 06/05/2015 9:25:49 AM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: Cicero
You gave me an ideal that you can use.
17 posted on 06/05/2015 9:26:28 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: wrench

“Does the US have to point out all the mistakes our enemies make? Sounds like we are training them to be better at fighting us.”

This is pretty common, as is leaking equipment capabilities or sometimes making up equipment faults to demoralize the users.

When MSM learned that we were using advanced RF techniques to find long trigger wires, the bad guys all of a sudden switched to long, plastic pneumatic actuator pipes like aquarium tubing.


18 posted on 06/05/2015 9:28:27 AM PDT by DBrow
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To: Kartographer

Barry is gonna be pissed when he reads about it in the news.


19 posted on 06/05/2015 9:30:01 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Civil rights are for civilized people.)
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To: wrench

Remember, the lefties want a ‘fair fight’, even if hundreds or thousands, including US military personnel, die. The ‘logic’ of the left.


20 posted on 06/05/2015 9:32:23 AM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind, but now I see...)
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