Posted on 11/15/2015 3:34:15 PM PST by Kaslin
PARIS (AP) France launched "massive" air strikes on the Islamic State group's de-facto capital in Syria Sunday night, destroying a jihadi training camp and a munitions dump in the city of Raqqa, where Iraqi intelligence officials say the attacks on Paris were planned.
Twelve aircraft including 10 fighter jets dropped a total of 20 bombs in the biggest air strikes since France extended its bombing campaign against the extremist group to Syria in September, a Defense Ministry statement said. The jets launched from sites in Jordan and the Persian Gulf, in coordination with U.S. forces.
Meanwhile, as police announced seven arrests and hunted for more members of the sleeper cell that carried out the Paris attacks that killed 129 people, French officials revealed to The Associated Press that several key suspects had been stopped and released by police after the attack.
The arrest warrant for Salah Abdeslam, a 26-year-old born in Brussels, calls him very dangerous and warns people not to intervene if they see him.
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Massive is not 20 bombs. Massive is Arawak is leveled.
Sorry Raqqa
Until they begin to look internally, this all window dressing.
Keep attacking the worms, frenchies!
Massive is 20 B-52’s or 40 Bear bombers. Even better, both, one after the other to “clean up” what the first run missed. Now THAT would be a US-USSR “reset”.
My thoughts exactly. It’s nice symbolism, but . . .
https://www.rt.com/news/321818-russia-syria-terror-strike/ 13 Nov, 2015 13:01 Russia flies 107 sorties in Syria eliminating 289 terror targets in 2 days
http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/bombs-away-why-russias-air-war-syria-so-impressive-14080 October 14, 2015 The Russian air force in Syria seems to be generating close to the theoretical maximum number of sorties possible for thirty-two fixed-wing combat aircraft. . . flew eighty-eight combat sorties while hitting eighty-six ISIS targets in a twenty-four hour span.
20 more bombs from France almost doesn’t matter, but it’s nice to see them try.
Let’s hope they find the terrorist and that they’re not squeamish about questioning.
They need Jack Bauer.
Like there was a HQ sitting around just waiting to get bombed UNTIL.....
Let’s get the ball rolling with a bakers dozen B83’s.
13 of those bad boys will even wipe out the scorpions and cock roaches....
B83, B83.
Hut, hut!,,
Sorry, watching football while dreaming of nuclear devastation of the ME.
Yeah, WTF? So they (and WE) knew of this ISIS HQ, but decided to hit it only after the Paris attack?
Isn’t Jack Bauer a fictional character?
Yep, but with Jack you don’t need the Army, Air Force, Marines, Navy, Coast Guard, CIA, FBI, Secret Service, etc. - Jack will handle things all by himself.
Neil Burnside.
trending on Twitter “#PrayForSyria” smh
Why didn’t they do this before ?
This sounds like another liberal sick joke. First, if they knew where ISIS HQ is, why in the world has it taken them up to the present to bomb it. Second, dropping a few “feel good” bombs means nothing in this conflict. Everything about the liberal war fighting strategy can only be labeled window dressing.
Yeah, 20 bombs is rather pathetic. But yet, I keep seeing all these new stories about how fierce the French counterattack is...
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