Posted on 09/08/2017 7:09:44 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
ARLINGTON, Va. -- The U.S. military has not stopped food and water delivered from Syrian regime territory from reaching a convoy of tour buses carrying ISIS terrorists and family members, the spokesman for U.S. operations in Iraq and Syria said today.
The buses carrying ISIS fighters from the Lebanon-Syria border to the Iraqi border in Syria have not come under fire from coalition forces; some in the convoy have broken off and retreated to Syrian regime territory, while 11 buses are still looking for a place to unload.
Bashar al-Assad's regime and Hezbollah forged a deal with the Islamic State under which more than 300 ISIS terrorists, accompanied by family members, received safe passage to Deir ez-Zor province southeast of Raqqa. The final destination was Al-Bukamal -- a mere 13-minute drive from the Iraq border crossing. The deal angered Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi.
In return for their bus rides, ISIS pointed to the burial location of several Lebanese soldiers kidnapped by the terror group in 2014.
"We continue to monitor the 11 buses that remain in the open desert, fully aware of ISIS families and noncombatants that are also present. We have not struck the convoy itself and have not hindered food and water resupplies to reach the convoy," Col Ryan Dillon, spokesman for Operation Inherent Resolve, told reporters from Baghdad.
No ISIS fighters have escaped from those 11 buses, he said, despite reports to the contrary. "We have struck individual ISIS fighters and fighters that leave in small groups to walk away, and as soon as they get far enough away from the buses -- we have, and we will continue to strike ISIS fighters that venture far enough away where we can hit them without causing harm to the civilians that are a part of that convoy," he said.
Dillon said the fleet of 17 buses separated a week ago; six doubled back "and went further into Syria towards Palmyra" -- "we just made a decision to stop monitoring it as they, you know, drew further into the interior of Syria" -- while the 11 currently under U.S. surveillance are "in the desert." He could not say how many ISIS fighters were on the buses.
"I don't know if the first three buses had all ISIS fighters and then the following -- the rest of the buses had just family members. I don't have that break-up. I don't know -- I didn't have a headcount for each of the ISIS buses," he said. "And so, what we can do is get an estimate to find out how many are in the 11 in the north, and then how many are the south. But, you know, I would say that it was a mix in both the six buses in the south, and a mix in the 11 buses that are still remaining in the north."
No, give food/water to young children and women, hopefully non-combatants. And only upon exit of combatants that either surrender or die.
why? why are these animals who kill our children and the children of our allies permitted to live?
Why is our leadership against us?
What is wrong with our military elites?
RE: why? why are these animals who kill our children and the children of our allies permitted to live?
There are women and children in the convoy.
You can’t kill them without killing the women and children.
“..No ISIS fighters have escaped from those 11 buses,...”
How about during the hours of darkness?? Are you sure about this statement??
” Inherent Resolve” is now ( still) meals on wheels for ISIS
Burqa wearing men hiding behind women and children who will grow up to be future terrorists
Lucky this was exposed by the Russians and the Iraqis
How about an EMP pulse near the buses?
Take out the satellite phones and engine computers.
Kill them all. They are all uncivilized, diseased of mind and hopeless. They will kill you and your family if given the chance. One large bomb will save a lot of money and time.
Kill the women and they will breed no more jihadis. Kill the children and they will not grow up to be jihadis and will not grow up to be jihadi breeders. Kill them all. God has already sorted them out for us.
RE: We got ‘em all in one place. One Hellfire ought to do it
They know that. But what about the women and children?
The Real Housewives of ISIS
Waste em all!!
They’re dead anyway.
We’re still supplying and supporting the bad guys. Senators McCain and Graham are happy.
Hezbollah, allies of Russia, Syria and Iran are the ones who allowed these people to go in the first place and a lot of people in Lebanon are upset about it. So, what we are doing is nothing compared to that.
They’ve probably already had an offer to release the women and children but are using them as human shields, so I don’t have a problem with flattening the whole bunch.
“fully aware of ISIS families and noncombatants that are also present. We have not struck the convoy itself and have not hindered food and water resupplies to reach the convoy,” Col Ryan Dillon,”
What a pussy. People in Germany, Japan, Hanoi, etc would be fascinated at how gentle and caring our military is. He’ll probably get a medal for courageous restraint.
With thermal imaging on our Apaches and other military airborne assets we can see them perfectly at night.
Report: Russia Worked Secretly to Protect Hezbollah at UN
JNS.org – Russia reportedly worked behind the scenes to protect the Hezbollah terror group in advance of a recent meeting on the renewal of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon’s (UNIFIL) presence in the region.
Prior to last week’s UN Security Council meeting on UNIFIL’s mandate in southern Lebanon, the Russians purportedly lobbied for the removal of all references to Hezbollah in the resolution’s text, according to a classified Israeli diplomatic cable cited in a report by Haaretz.
https://www.algemeiner.com/2017/09/06/report-russia-worked-secretly-to-protect-hezbollah-at-un/
Just published yesterday, Russia’s allies are the ones who allowed these people to escape in the first place from Lebanon.
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