Posted on 10/04/2015 7:15:25 AM PDT by Helicondelta
RUSSIAN war planes have struck 10 Islamic State (ISIS) targets in the past 24 hours – including a suicide belt factory.
The country's defence ministry said Russian bombers had also taken out a terrorist training camp during 20 sorties.
"As a result of our air strikes on Islamic State targets, we have managed to disrupt their control system, the terrorist organisation's supply lines, and also caused significant damage to the infrastructure used to prepare acts of terror," the ministry announced.
The spokesperson added that the strikes took place in Idlib and Raqqa, the self-proclaimed Syrian capital of the terror group.
Russian war planes have previously destroyed ammunition stores and command centres during their ferocious assault on ISIS.
Andrei Kartapolov, a senior Russian General, added: "We will not only continue strikes. We will also increase their intensity.
"Over three days we were able to undermine the terrorists' infrastructure and significantly reduce their military potential."
The news come as Russian President Vladimir Putin is reportedly planning an ambitious mission to take control of the city of Raqqa.
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One thing the whole world should be able to agree on is that ISIS should be destroyed. It should've been disintegrated when they were walking in a column across the desert.
Listen to the talkers this morning, Trump being the only exception. They're still describing Assad as the evil that must be destroyed. Isn't that Saudi Arabia's agenda?
Putin is a better ‘community organizer’ than Barry. I would like to see aircraft camera footage of the secondaries when they hit the suicide-vest factory. Sadly, I think we may see reports later on where Americans may have been killed in Homs - if this was a Free Syrian Army stronghold. It may have meant that American advisors, SpecFor, SEALs, etc. may have been embedded.
I was in the Army during the Clinton and Bush years. The Army politics were pretty bad back then. I imagine it’s much worse in Obama’s Army. This business of destroying a man’s carreer because he beat down a child abuser reeks of Army politics. This guy pi**ed off the wrong officer or NCO IMHO and this is what it earned him.
Obama told us he was bombing ISIS targets. Did he forget this one?
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But, but, but............what about collateral damage? This is gonna make soon departing bohner cry. Didn’t the US air ops just take out some doctors without borders? And people wonder, “I guess I’ll be perfectly safe if I go into a combat zone knowing I’m only there for humanitarian work.” Bullets and bombs don’t care. You put yourself in harms way, you may get harmed. Guess Vlad’s rules of engagement are different than the lyin’ king huh?
The enemy of my enemy.
Plus the must be getting stellar intell.
It wasn’t a suicide belt factory.
Islam is the religion of peace.
It was a much needed medical facility make a quick weight loss system they were intending to share with the world.
We can hope. But Russia's objective is propping up Syria, its client state. They will only attack ISIS when it is threatening Syria.
But any bomb dropped on ISIS' heads is a good bomb.
Looks like Putin did a lot of homework.
Reports from the UK make it sound like Putin has practically destroyed ISIS in less than a week. Highly unlikely but does seem to demonstrate that Obama has only been pussyfooting around.
It looks like they will might be winning the PR battle as well.
Putin’s rule of engagement. If you don’t wany to get hurt, you better leave the area.
Now, whether or not these are card carrying ISIS members, the JV squad or any of the myriad "splinter groups", "moderates", freedom fighters, head choppers local 356, or whomever, watch out, incoming !
When will they finally hit the baby milk factory? Come on, Ruskies, get with it.
It indeed might seem a bit surreal rooting for Russia.
But in a way, it’s no more surreal than the disgust I feel towards my own country as it embraces perversion and evil, wallowing in depravity like fag-marriage, transgender bathrooms, and persecuting Christian bakers, photographers, and the like.
Everything seems upside-down these days.
This is plain awful. How is a muzzy supposed to keep his suicide pants up?
Syria is gonna start looking like an inner city high school.
“We may see China Syria Iraq Russia and Iran as the new Super Powers while we go back to the Cold War hiding under the desks during school drills”
Well, that’s what happens when beta “males” are elected to “lead” this country.
Suicide belt factory? Above ground? Why didn’t Obama ordered it taken out long ago?
OMG! I how the workers in the Suicide Belt factory were not members of a union! Then Obama would really be pissed.
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