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US pulls back from watching ISIS convoy at request of Russians , Pentagon says
Fox News ^ | September 8, 2017 | Lucas Tomlinson

Posted on 09/10/2017 5:24:11 PM PDT by BeadCounter

The U.S. military on Friday pulled back surveillance aircraft that had been watching an 11-bus ISIS convoy filled with hundreds of militants and their family members -- at the request of the Russian government.

The ISIS convoy was given safe passage over 10 days ago to travel from the Lebanon-Syria border across the Syrian desert to the Iraqi border in a deal struck between Syria and Hezbollah, which angered the U.S. military.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: isis; russia; surveillance; syria; trumpgwot; trumprussia; usmilitary
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First off, Russia's allies, Hezbollah, allow ISIS to "escape from Lebanon" , now, Russia requests the US to not put ISIS under Surveillance. If one knows the story too, Iraq got upset in this as these militants were headed to Iraq. Hmmmn.
1 posted on 09/10/2017 5:24:12 PM PDT by BeadCounter
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To: BeadCounter

Remember, Russia accused us of helping ISIS, now they are.


2 posted on 09/10/2017 5:29:02 PM PDT by dila813 (Voting for Trump to Punish Trumpets!)
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To: BeadCounter

Were we going to wipe out the ISIS convoy in Syria? Or are we going to wipe it out in Iraq?


3 posted on 09/10/2017 5:30:00 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: dila813

The Russians will never be friend of the USA


4 posted on 09/10/2017 5:30:14 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BeadCounter

Who knows what’s going on. I don’t think you can trust the news media on these matters. We need to learn a lot more about this, first.


5 posted on 09/10/2017 5:30:45 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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They do not want their Baath party members smoked?


6 posted on 09/10/2017 5:42:35 PM PDT by lavaroise
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To: BeadCounter

Hopefully we are handing it over to the Russians to do what needs to be done.


7 posted on 09/10/2017 5:47:46 PM PDT by crusadersoldier
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The ISIS convoy was full of ISIS women and children and ISIS won't separate themselves from them. As such we haven't been bombing the buses. If the Russians want the drones gone it's because they're going to destroy the buses. Russians don't play games with terrorists groups that's kill their civilians.
8 posted on 09/10/2017 5:52:28 PM PDT by JohnyBoy (We should forgive communists, but not before they are hanged.)
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...Since the convoy departed, U.S. drones have picked off ISIS fighters when they left the convoy to relieve themselves, according to U.S. officials...

Bwahh. I want to see that gun footage.


9 posted on 09/10/2017 5:52:28 PM PDT by McGruff (2017 or 1984?)
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Where ever the convey is, it sounds like a target rich environment!


10 posted on 09/10/2017 5:53:25 PM PDT by Noob1999
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Sorry, but war is hell. Let them have it. Then they will tire of endless war.


11 posted on 09/10/2017 6:11:07 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: BeadCounter

Can there be some negotiations going on related to the UN North Korea votes coming up?


12 posted on 09/10/2017 6:23:14 PM PDT by mairdie
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What the hell is wrong with the Pentagon? Why the **** are we "watching" the convoy?

Doesn't anyone remember the "Highway of Death"? That whole convoy should be wiped out. Tough beans if there are women and children. There were women and children at Dresden and Hiroshima too.

Highway of Death, Kuwait:


13 posted on 09/10/2017 6:33:32 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (http://truthfeed.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/199716_5_.jpg)
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To: dila813

The US had ample opportunity to liquidate the convoy but refused to do so. Maybe the Russians want to take care of business without prying tv cameras on them.


14 posted on 09/10/2017 6:39:51 PM PDT by PAR35
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Notice anything about that ‘Highway of Death’ picture? The absence of bullet holes? the absence of burned out hulks? The intact fuel tanker? The undamaged pavement?

Looks like someone cleaned out the pick and pull lot and piled them up.


15 posted on 09/10/2017 6:47:39 PM PDT by PAR35
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Looks photoshopped, more Fords, Chevy trucks, and Cadillacs, than foreign models. Odd.


16 posted on 09/10/2017 6:54:32 PM PDT by Fireone (No more Kennedys, Bushes, Clintons, or Obamas....(or their kids)ever!)
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Still playing shell games with Saddam’s WMDs?


17 posted on 09/10/2017 6:58:13 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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they could have done that the sec they loaded up those busses, but they didn’t


18 posted on 09/10/2017 6:59:38 PM PDT by dila813 (Voting for Trump to Punish Trumpets!)
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The ambulance does look foreign, and perhaps the buses as well. But yes, I don’t think you’d find that high a proportion of American cars in Dallas these days.

I was thinking posed, rather than photoshopped.


19 posted on 09/10/2017 7:00:14 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: BeadCounter

What the fuhk?


20 posted on 09/10/2017 7:15:51 PM PDT by HighSierra5
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