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ISIS-infested island burns after US carpet-bombing: Satellite image show smoking craters [tr]
UK Daily Mail ^ | September 12, 2019 | Staff

Posted on 09/12/2019 3:15:11 AM PDT by C19fan

The destructive power of 40 tons of laser-guided bombs dropped by the US Air Force on what it termed an 'ISIS infested island' in Iraq has been captured by satellite images. Before and after photos of Qanus Island, which sits in the middle of the Tigris River in central Iraq clearly show how much of the island's lush, green foliage was burnt to a cinder after American forces using F-15 and F-35 jets essentially carpet bombed the small strip of land. The mission targeted the island after intelligence was received that the location was used as a hiding place for jihadi fighters.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: bombing; isis; terrorism
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To: C19fan

Qanus Island.”

What’s with Arabs wanting us to spell words in English with a Q with no U after? It’s like Chicoms and “Xi”. You would think they were leftists.

Wait...

They ARE leftists!


21 posted on 09/12/2019 5:01:55 AM PDT by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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To: C19fan

Cool video here:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-iraq-us-air-force-bombing-qanus-island-video-a9100526.html


22 posted on 09/12/2019 5:27:33 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Charity comes from wealth.)
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To: C19fan

Now THAT is a counter terrorism strategy one can get behind. Don’t stop there....raqqa, dabiq, medina, some nice round-up for afghanistan (twofer), and maybe some leaflets for tehran.

Islam needs a reformation before it can be even considered for entry into the adult conversations.

.02, YMMV

KYPD


23 posted on 09/12/2019 5:33:14 AM PDT by petro45acp (CHAOS TO THE ENEMY!!! It is part of daily prayer now....every bit helps to get America back.)
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To: C19fan

I watched the video and noted the widely dispersed destruction.

However, I have watched much WW II footage and noted that the population survived.

The Isis infrastructure was destroyed but were the fanatics actually killed? Why was there no followup with antipersonell ordanance?


24 posted on 09/12/2019 5:46:03 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: Tallguy

Yep. I looked at the plane and you are spot on. They very well could have been on the outside depending.


25 posted on 09/12/2019 5:48:21 AM PDT by rlbedfor
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To: donaldtrump

Thank you


26 posted on 09/12/2019 5:58:59 AM PDT by novemberslady
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To: bk1000

So drop the Q and whadda ya got?


27 posted on 09/12/2019 6:15:23 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("Sorry, your race card has been declined. Can you present any other form of argument?")
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To: C19fan

That’s the way to do it.


28 posted on 09/12/2019 6:25:21 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: COBOL2Java

WOW , nice pattern


29 posted on 09/12/2019 7:07:43 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: C19fan

Nuke it from space, it’s the only way to be sure.


30 posted on 09/12/2019 7:11:53 AM PDT by BipolarBob
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To: C19fan

31 posted on 09/12/2019 7:14:33 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: C19fan

They bombed Q Anon Island?


32 posted on 09/12/2019 7:33:58 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Rebelbase

Happy Yom Ashura!


33 posted on 09/12/2019 7:35:57 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Hillary Clinton: Just like Joe with only half the dementia.)
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To: C19fan

“ISIS infested island”? Where are all the Democrats screaming racism at that description?


34 posted on 09/12/2019 7:42:27 AM PDT by philled (If this creature is not stopped it could make its way to Novosibirsk!)
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To: Rebelbase

They could have dialed up a single B1-B from Diego Garcia and gotten a similar result — but tanker support might have made that more expensive, I don’t know.


35 posted on 09/12/2019 7:44:19 AM PDT by Tallguy (Facts be d@mned! The narrative must be protected at all costs!)
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To: C19fan

Did the island tip over and capsize?


36 posted on 09/12/2019 7:45:15 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (Prov 24: Do not fret because of evildoers. Do not associate with those given to change.)
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To: COBOL2Java
As Martha once sang...

Nowhere to run to, baby, nowhere to hide

37 posted on 09/12/2019 7:57:53 AM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: C19fan

More fun to use Apache chain guns and FLIR in the dark against personnel moving about.


38 posted on 09/12/2019 8:10:48 AM PDT by damper99
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To: C19fan

Well, there is this thing called triple-A that the BUFF is a whole lot more vulnerable to, and a buncha smaller aircraft can put the ordnance down considerably more precisely, with fewer bombs going off target.

But I will defer the knowledge you evidently possess in excess of those that actually planned and executed this action.


39 posted on 09/12/2019 8:19:06 AM PDT by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: C19fan

Once again, a UK paper got an aviation term wrong.No matter how many fighter bombers carry no matter how many bombs, the term ‘carpet bombing’ was the direct, and only, use by those who fly the beloved American Boeing B-52!!! Nobody does it better!!


40 posted on 09/12/2019 9:15:19 AM PDT by Terry L Smith (.)
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