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

[Nextrush]

The military advisors must have cooked up this attack plan.

We’ll see how it plays out.

[icwhatudo]

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

[Ghost of SVR4]

I saw a couple reports here on FR (maybe a week or two ago; sorry, I can’t source a link at this time) that the dam was actually still getting some needed maintenance conducted in lieu of ISIS taking control (continuing maintenance, not ISIS initiated maint).
I wonder if ISIS thinks it will lose control if they don’t blow that damn thing. It is a win/win for them based on their current behavior and I am quite certain they wouldn’t see a loss in creating more chaos.

[tcrlaf]

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

A DEMOCRAT is in charge...

This is HUMANITARIAN BOMBING, and only racists (and quite possibly, EVIL CHRISTIANS) would dare to ask such politically-incorrect questions under a Democrat President!

[shotgun]

Isn’t electricity against their religion?

[Paladin2]

Yep. AK-47’s are haram. Rockets too.

[ConorMacNessa]

But no "Boots on the ground!"

This looks familiar, no?

IMHO, we will have "Boots on the ground" in the ME for the rest of our lives and far beyond. The commie apparatchiks now in control just can't afford to admit it.

America demands Justice for the Fallen of Benghazi!

O stranger, tell the Lacedaemonians that we lie here, obedient to their command.

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[Paladin2]

A-10 attention to their columns would clear this infection up in short order.

[tcrlaf]

“A-10 attention to their columns would clear this infection up in short order.”

But, aren’t we getting rid of those, to free up more money for the EBT Cards of the Democrat Plantation slave voters?

[Paladin2]

My point well observed.....

[Ghost of SVR4]

Isn’t pretty much anything modern against their religion?

[Slump Tester]

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

[ArmstedFragg]

It’s Libya all over again! How far into the air offensive did we go before we finally had to stop claiming we were just preventing a massacre of civilians? Several weeks I believe.

[ArmstedFragg]

If they breach it, the first thing that gets wiped out is Mosul. I doubt they’d want to flood their own city.

[Flint]

Wait just a damn minute here. I distinctly remember being told that there is not a military solution to the problem. Say it ain’t so, the Messiah has told a lie!

[bunkerhill7]

British sources say SAS on the ground and 8 Tornados in action over Iraq as we speaketh cf guardian & telegraph

[icwhatudo]

But thats only 1 country. We can not operate without the support of the French, Germans, and Russians. Besides, its all about oil and blackwater anyway.

/s

[Red Steel]

ISIS bad guys should/could have explosive charges ready to go at the base of that big dam.

[matthew fuller]

They don’t have a religion, they have a cult.