Posted on 11/23/2015 1:39:36 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
France began air strikes on Sunday against the Islamic State in Syria, a stronghold for the militant group. On the same day of the French air strikes, the U.S. military destroyed 116 ISIS fuel trucks Sunday in Abu Kamal, in the Euphrates River basin near the Syrian-Iraq border.
FOX News A military official with knowledge of the strikes said that recently-arrived U.S. Air Force A-10 Warthogs from Incirlik Air Base, in Turkey, carried out the strikes on the fuel farm.
The official said previously the fuel trucks were off limits to U.S. military strike aircraft. When asked if the Paris attacks would bring about a change in the U.S. military’s rules of engagement, the official said that the truck drivers were warned first before the bombs fell.
“We dropped leaflets, warning the drivers to scatter,†said an official who had been briefed on the strike. “Next we strafed the area [with 30mm cannons] before the dropping bombs†from the warthogs.
Read more at http://freedomoutpost.com/2015/11/obama-regime-ordered-us-military-to-warn-isis-fuel-truck-drivers-before-bombing-their-trucks/#MLU3buwj2qmmjaC5.99
,,,,,,, this is insane !!!!! Wake up Congress and grow a pair ,,,, deal with this treasonous dictator !!!!
Maybe the leaflets are part of a Collective Bargaining Agreement Obama made with the ISIS Teamsters Local.
Dear Jihadist,
Allah willing, you have 45 minutes to prepare a mobile SAM launcher.
Thanks
Barry
Who will dare call it Treason?
As if the terrorists give any notice to their targets.
Should have had a couple AC-130 gunships shoot everything in that convoy into shrapnel. It’s the only thing they’ll understand.
So who’s nicer, Obama, who telephones them in advance, or Putin, who gives them seventy-six virgins?
ping
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/firebombing-of-tokyo
Excerpt:
On this day, U.S. warplanes launch a new bombing offensive against Japan, dropping 2,000 tons of incendiary bombs on Tokyo over the course of the next 48 hours. Almost 16 square miles in and around the Japanese capital were incinerated, and between 80,000 and 130,000 Japanese civilians were killed in the worst single firestorm in recorded history.
Early on March 9, Air Force crews met on the Mariana Islands of Tinian and Saipan for a military briefing. They were planning a low-level bombing attack on Tokyo that would begin that evening, but with a twist: Their planes would be stripped of all guns except for the tail turret. The decrease in weight would increase the speed of each Superfortress bomber-and would also increase its bomb load capacity by 65 percent, making each plane able to carry more than seven tons. Speed would be crucial, and the crews were warned that if they were shot down, all haste was to be made for the water, which would increase their chances of being picked up by American rescue crews. Should they land within Japanese territory, they could only expect the very worst treatment by civilians, as the mission that night was going to entail the deaths of tens of thousands of those very same civilians. “You are going to deliver the biggest firecracker the Japanese have ever seen,†said U.S. Gen. Curtis LeMay.
The cluster bombing of the downtown Tokyo suburb of Shitamachi had been approved only a few hours earlier. Shitamachi was composed of roughly 750,000 people living in cramped quarters in wooden-frame buildings. Setting ablaze this “paper city†was a kind of experiment in the effects of firebombing; it would also destroy the light industries, called “shadow factories,†that produced prefabricated war materials destined for Japanese aircraft factories.
The denizens of Shitamachi never had a chance of defending themselves. Their fire brigades were hopelessly undermanned, poorly trained, and poorly equipped. At 5:34 p.m., Superfortress B-29 bombers took off from Saipan and Tinian, reaching their target at 12:15 a.m. on March 10. Three hundred and thirty-four bombers, flying at a mere 500 feet, dropped their loads, creating a giant bonfire fanned by 30-knot winds that helped raze Shitamachi and spread the flames throughout Tokyo. Masses of panicked and terrified Japanese civilians scrambled to escape the inferno, most unsuccessfully. The human carnage was so great that the blood-red mists and stench of burning flesh that wafted up sickened the bomber pilots, forcing them to grab oxygen masks to keep from vomiting.
This is utterly stupid. I’m sure that even a dim bulb like 0bama has heard of a ‘shot across the bow.’ You want to warn the drivers? Fine. First pass drop a bomb 50 yards ahead of the first truck. Two minutes later you take out the entire column of trucks. Any ‘civilian’ driver who didn’t run into the desert as fast as he could chose his own fate.
Now, if the drivers were republicans...
Right from the pages of “The Idiot’s Guide to Rules of Engagement”.
Barry lets his Pet Pentagonal Perfumed Princes play with their toys....
As long as they don’t hurt any of his jihadist Brothers.
The rest is kabuki theater to make the gullible peasants think he is actually ‘doing something’.
The funny thing about this is that they were warned to get out of their trucks in the middle of the desert.They are so screwed.They will still die,but die tired.
Leaflet dropping consumed thousands of sorties during WWII.
While I don’t care one way or the other, the target is the truck not the driver. Not likely the Saudis are going to get them more trucks any time soon.
Did he sign them with, “I’m sorry!”
Is there STILL any doubt that bastard is a Muslime?
Even under WW-II procedures today, we would have to lock up every person who votes Democrat, execute more than 90% of journalists, execute more than 90% of elected politicians, and imprison more than 90% of the immigrants from the past two decades or so. The treason, espionage, and genocidal intent against the human citizens of the United States will not stop otherwise.
I like how you think. Too many people are missing the fact that our number one enemy are those people who control the airwaves.
One party control of information means only their voices get heard. They can lie when they want, and omit information that makes them look bad.
Yes, we need to go to war with the media people. We need to bring them down. Putting them in prison for what they've already done seems reasonable to me.
Would you feel the same if the drivers were SS? (SchutzStaffel)
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