Report: U.S. airstrikes carried out as part of Iraqi effort to retake Mosul Dam

CNN ^ | 8-15-2014 | Anna Coren and Chelsea J. Carter

[tcrlaf]

U.S. warplanes carried out airstrikes in northern Iraq near ISIS-controlled Mosul Dam early Saturday morning, the Kurdish news agency Rudaw reported, citing eyewitnesses.

CNN confirmed that a U.S. and Iraqi military operation aimed at retaking the country's largest hydroelectric dam from the so-called Islamic State was scheduled to begin early Saturday morning (Friday at 6 p.m. ET).

The operation was to begin with U.S. and Iraqi airstrikes against ISIS positions, with Iraqi and Kurdish Peshmerga forces following up on the ground.

U.S. fighter jets began carrying out the strikes early Saturday morning local time, Rudaw reported

[bunkerhill7]

I heard Frenchies are rushing HEAVY WEAPONs to the Kurds

[Jet Jaguar]

Active Duty ping.

[txhurl]

RATS can’t GOTV on wars we aren’t in. Why aren’t the RATS trumpeting this?

[bunkerhill7]

But the Poles put on a big military parade in Warsaw..

[Graewoulf]

Did you know that all US Military Vehicles left begin in Iraq use the hides of Hogs for upholstery, and Hog lard for lubrication?

I read it somewhere in a comment that somebody said that he thought that he remembered saying to Senator Reid.

If Senator Reid repeats it on the US Senate floor, then it just has to be true.

[bkopto]

So why wouldn’t ISIS sabotage the dam if they thought they were about to lose control of it? Thus, Bath House would be an accomplice to the death and destruction which would follow takedown of the dam. Fitting.

[Rome2000]

Uh, maybe this will cause the ragheads to blow the dam?

The pattern so far is that we come in a day late and a dollar short.

[VRWCarea51]

Didn’t Nero just two days ago proclaim our mission of Humanity in Iraq had been completed?

[plain talk]

Why the unilateral action? Where are our allies? Why the rush to war? Why not give sanctions a chance?

I can only guess.
a) Obama too inept to even try to build a coalition or
b) he failed to build a coalition or
a + b

[Sequoyah101]

Bathing and deodorant are against their religion. I”m not so sure about electricity though.

[GonzoII]

Good move. That dam has to be taken before we can clean out ISIS from Iraq. They would have blown it as they went down in defeat.

[NonValueAdded]

They killed two trucks

[22202NOVA]

Too bad we cannot electrify their showers.

[eartick]

Where is congressional approval???.....oh wait not needed anymore to bomb or invade or start UP a new war.

Where the hell are the nut-less GOP on this? This is not HUMANITARIAN?????

Obama was only going to RESCUE the CHILDREN....

Now we are providing air cover for a countries military that will run at the drop of a hat and rely on it’s women to do the fighting....

[bytesmith]

Gee, wouldn’t that be awful if ISIS blows it up?

Obama fears this. Would not look good if millions of folks are
drowned while he is playing golf or sneaking off with Reggie.

[edpc]

You’re assumiming they use them.

[hal ogen]

What will be the “world opinion” when a US bomb accidentally blows the dam?

[RedMDer]

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[SunkenCiv]

Odd that the “Sunni” ISIS didn’t blow the dam at Mosul (and reportedly, all it would take is to shut down some machines that continuously pump concrete into the eroding bedrock), since most of the population downstream is Shiite. Why, it’s almost as if...

[VerySadAmerican]

I’d wager ISIS already has the damn rigged with explosives. Like Saddam did his oil wells.