Might this work?
Posted on 05/06/2017 5:12:29 AM PDT by huldah1776
Thousands of IS fighters have retreated to desert of Anbar, where they are launching deadly attacks against vulnerable non-combat troops
Having secured the towns and villages of Anbar province, and with commanders focused on the battle for the city of Mosul, Iraqi forces are now having to contend with a new Islamic State (IS) group tactic – desert ambushes.
Military sources say that beneath the sand, thousands of IS militants are hiding in underground tunnels and bunkers, from which they are launching a campaign to unnerve and disorientate the Iraqi army, already weary after years of fighting.
On Sunday, at least 10 Iraqi soldiers were killed and dozens more wounded when a group of IS combatants attacked a First Division army base near Rutba, in the Anbar desert.
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But the following day, a similar attack took place near Saqar, also in Anbar, and also against a First Division base – at least 11 soldiers were killed, and five wounded, the military sources added.
These were the latest in a string of such recent attacks by IS, which have killed 26 Iraqi soldiers in the last month alone.
Sleeper cells
Military officials say the desert ambushes are being carried out by IS sleeper cells in the province, which has long played unwitting host to the group and its predecessors, even before IS took over large swathes of Iraq in 2014.
The recent attacks have targeted mostly non-combat troops, untrained and unequipped to engage in such fighting, officials said, and are aimed at draining the Iraqi army’s resources in the province.
Thousands of IS militants have withdrawn into the desert – stretching from the Iraqi-Syrian border in northwestern Anbar, the Jordanian border in the west, and the Saudi Arabian border in the southwest...
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Could be thousands but, grains of salt. They are good at building tunnels. I wonder if they learned from their brothers in Gaza.
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/revealed-islamic-states-underground-training-camp-621300535
couldn’t get link to work...
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/revealed-islamic-states-underground-training-camp-621300535
One would think that radar from satellites could detect these tunnels. Radar has identified hundreds of roads, buildings and other structures buried under the sands of Saudi Arabia. Also, during Viet Nam the US dropped hundreds of sensors to detect the enemy and report back by radio. With today’s technology I’d expect those sensors could sniff their farts and report their diet.
We need to engineer giant worms that burrow through sand and rock, not even caves can save people from them.
Sort of like the movie “Tremors?”
Might this work?
More like Shai-Hulud, the sandworms in “Dune.”
and why do we care ?
these clowns pose zero threat to America
Some of the islands the Japanese were on they went into their caves and the battleships fired a lot of 16 inch shells and yet when the smoke cleared they crawled out and shot the guys coming ashore
Bunker Busters are what they need then and now drop a string of bunker busters from a B-52 and set timers for them all to go off at the same time collapse the tunnels and bury them in one pass.
Industrial sized gopher cannons.
I was thinking the same thing. A MOAB would give them a fitting burial.
these clowns pose zero threat to America
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NOT TRUE.
The Muslim plan all along has been to create wars to create refugees who then flood the western countries. As the Muslim numbers in the west increase, the number of terrorist attacks increase on innocent infidels.
Mohamed will NOT return until the world is 100% grade A Islam. Your choice, either convert or they are commanded to kill YOU.
America's FIRST Pro-Muslim President, Hussein Obama, attacked Libya illegally to overthrow a government. Then he and useful idiot Hillary transferred weapons to Syria to continue causing havoc under Hussein's Arab Spring.
Hussein's Arab Spring was a scam and Benghazi was just a bump in the road according to Hussein.
Who hid terrorist links to Benghazi? Stooges under orders from Hussein Obama.
“Dune”
Bring back flame throwers
funny
really funny
these clowns couldn’t organize a high school prom and you believe they have a super secret plan to conquer American ?
roltflmao
Cobalt-60
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