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U.S.-led Coalition Targets Islamic State in Raqqa (At least 16 airstrikes were reported in Syria)
AP ^ | July 5, 2015

Posted on 07/05/2015 8:25:02 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

U.S.-led coalition aircraft unleashed a series of airstrikes targeting Islamic State’s stronghold of Raqqa in eastern Syria, killing at least 10 militants and wounding many others, the coalition and the group said Sunday.

At least 16 airstrikes were reported late Saturday and early Sunday, triggering successive explosions that shook the city and created panic among residents, activists said. The U.S.-led coalition often targets Islamic State-held towns and cities in Syria, but the overnight strikes on Raqqa were rare in their intensity.

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TOPICS: Syria
KEYWORDS: kurdistan; raqqa; syria; turkey

1 posted on 07/05/2015 8:25:02 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Finally some good done. Also, when we’d strike say, Iraq in the invasion and the number was up around 50 say, that was to hit the infrastructure. When we are attacking ISIS, that, according to the expert guest on Fox, is not really an issue.

Anyway, finally, and they say this was a response to the so-called threats of terrorism on the 4th of July.

Maybe the show was media buzz.


2 posted on 07/05/2015 8:29:46 PM PDT by BeadCounter
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To: MinorityRepublican

ISIS also executed 13 ISIS officers who were planning a coup of the group, at least according to this story:

http://www.ndtv.com/world-news/isis-executes-13-top-commanders-after-failed-coup-plot-report-777988


3 posted on 07/05/2015 8:37:10 PM PDT by BeadCounter
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To: MinorityRepublican

killing at least 10 militants


Time for some dumb bombs.


4 posted on 07/05/2015 8:40:23 PM PDT by boycott
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To: MinorityRepublican

Oxymoron: U.S. Led


5 posted on 07/05/2015 8:43:56 PM PDT by webheart (We are all pretty much living in a fiction.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Gee, a whole 16, WOW! I’ll bet it will take them all of ten minutes to recover from this “onslaught!


6 posted on 07/05/2015 9:10:05 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: MinorityRepublican

Some booms, some shaking.

Super big attack, huh..?

Then they should have extremely good video regarding the Battle Damage —let’s see it.

Of course as before all this talk is all lies.

At the very least it is simple artifice.


7 posted on 07/05/2015 10:11:34 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: MinorityRepublican
Wanna stop ISIS?

Nuke Raqqa.

Just a little nuke, or perhaps a Daisy Cutter.

That'll do it.

8 posted on 07/06/2015 4:57:12 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (Hunga Tonga-Hunga.)
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