Posted on 11/22/2015 6:17:19 PM PST by rickmichaels
Russia has launched a merciless blanket air campaign, backed by Kalibr cruise missiles fired from the Caspian and Mediterranean Seas, for the object of wiping the Islamic State's Syrian center of Raqqa off the map, DEBKAfile's military sources report.
Western and Middle East sources tracking the campaign since Friday, Nov. 20, report that at least 75 air sorties have been conducted and are systematically razing the town of 200,000 inhabitants 160km east of Aleppo, district by district, irrespective of civilian town dwellers.
Moscow wants the entire Middle East and Muslim world to see the price exacted for launching a terrorist attack on Russia after the downing of the Metrojet airliner that killed 224 people over Egyptian Sinai on Oct. 31.
Russian bombers and cruise missiles rained death and destruction on the ISIS administration center after the jihadists claimed responsibility for that disaster and published photos of a soft drink can claimed to have been rigged as a bomb for blowing the plane up.
When the Russians are done, the town will be a pile of rubble, an intelligence source told DEBKAfile.
The Russian defense ministry ran photos Friday of Russian technicians loading bombs on the Tupolev 95 bombers (dubbed "Bears" in the West). Ground crews marked the bombs "For ours," and "For Paris."
Last Tuesday, our military sources first revealed that the Tupolev's were taking off from Morozovsk air base in the Rostov district of southern Russia instead of from the Russian military enclave outside the Syrian town of Latakia.
Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu reported Friday that 15 Syrian oil facilities seized by ISIS had been destroyed this week and 525 of their trucks, costing the jihadists $1.5 million a day in revenue.
As for casualties, the published figure of 600 jihadists killed in one day is probably far below the real figure. Our sources report that the Islamist terrorists' death toll most probably runs into thousands with many more injured.
To sustain the hectic tempo of its aerial war, Moscow has doubled the number of bombers assigned to Syria from 34 two weeks ago to 69 by Saturday, Nov. 21.
Our military sources add that this augmented air power allows the Russians to expand their targets to other parts of Syria. On Friday, they renewed sorties against Syrian rebel forces holding the southern town of Deraa near the Jordanian border.
My Mom was in a debate club, in the 30’s, she argued once, that commercial aviation would never work !
one nuke would have been quicker and cheaper.
Unortunately, the Clinton administration was too busy cozying up to the Russian Mafia , interesting itself only in corrupt contributions.
Recall that Gore was in charge of relations with Russia (as Clinton was himself dealing with -- and for -- the ChiComs).
At the time, while Gore was collecting graft, we were granting substantial foreign aid grants to Russia. But it had to be spent on consulting contracts with Clinton crony banking, financial and consulting services.
It was indeed a golden opportunity missed...
Good one-———and God bless your Mom for being in a debate club.
I could never have done that.
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Fortunately Mom taught me how to debate, not what topic to debate on ;)
Thanks for your reply, it certainly makes sense, unfortunately.
Wish it were true. But then the source is Debka. Perhaps the ChiComs are joining in with the aircraft carrier that Debka reported on scene a few weeks back.
“Come and keep your comrade warm.”
But the Russian response is not proportional! /sarc
Fnally someone can show The millennial’s how wars are actually fight when you want to win them. I can’t tell you how tired I get a puke saying “were never solved anything!”
Way to go Putin! Thanks for killing Obam’as ISIS for us. hopefully, as soon as the Democrats are swept out of power we will join you to finish the job on Mecca.
I hope this is true. I also hope they have good recon on anyone trying to escape Raqqa and take care of them too.
Sure does.
Love that man.
Good post.
Meanwhile, Obungo wrings his hands and whines how terrible the violence is. Boo hoo, Barry, your Muslim buddies are meeting their 72 virgins so fast there's a waiting line in Hell.
We should send Obungo over to his New Syrian Army/ISIS buddies so he can demonstrate his leadership abilities by leading from the front. Oops, did Vladimir bomb you, Barry? Gee, what a shame.
LOLOLOL
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