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US bombs ISIS island in Iraq’s Tigris River
Stars and Stripes ^ | September 10, 2019 | Chad Garland

Posted on 09/10/2019 9:22:37 AM PDT by CivilWarBrewing

Coalition and Iraqi forces carried out airstrikes Tuesday against an island south of Mosul in the Tigris River believed to be a safe haven for the Islamic State group in Iraq.

Fireballs exploded across Qanus Island in Iraq’s Salahuddin province, as plumes of smoke billowed up into the sky, a video posted on Twitter showed. Black-clad Iraqi counter-terrorism troops are seen watching over the operation from the ground.

(Excerpt) Read more at stripes.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 201909; counterterrorism; daesh; iraq; isis; mullahworshippers; qanusisland; salahuddin; terrorism
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To: Karl Spooner

Hmmmmm...... can imagine the pilot thinking something along the lines of.... allah akbar this MF’ers.


101 posted on 09/12/2019 8:51:02 AM PDT by A Voice (As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the end times.)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

In a way, the 1950s prefigured the 1980s,with those bands like Haircut 100, Duran Duran, and dozens of others, all of whom sounded like they used the same studios, same producers, and same session musicians. Not sayin’ I don’t like it though...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9G0-4TWwew

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHiW7AUUO-I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfTS7VF76sc

and of course, that great sound wandered into the 1960s a bit before the British invasion (which was a reiteration and rearrangement etc of American stuff):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GwRKsOnk84


102 posted on 09/13/2019 1:21:39 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Red Badger

Nice tight bombing pattern. There will be some widowed goats out there tonight.


103 posted on 09/18/2019 7:57:39 PM PDT by jmacusa ("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?)
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To: Hot Tabasco
“Bomb, bomb, bomb with the bombardiers...’’
104 posted on 09/18/2019 7:59:41 PM PDT by jmacusa ("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?)
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To: jmacusa

105 posted on 09/19/2019 6:17:33 AM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain......................)
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To: Red Badger

LOL! Yeah. It fall down and go BOOM!!


106 posted on 09/19/2019 8:51:39 AM PDT by jmacusa ("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?)
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