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U.S.-Led Air Campaign Against Islamic State in Syria Resumes, Monitors Say
WSJ ^ | Updated Sept. 24, 2014 10:11 a.m. ET | Ayla Albayrak in Sanliurfa, Turkey

Posted on 09/24/2014 7:39:50 AM PDT by GonzoII

The U.S.-led air campaign against Islamic State targets in Syria hit suspected extremist sites near the country's border with Iraq Wednesday, local residents and a monitoring group said.

At least 13 air raids were carried out by non-Syrian aircraft against sites on the outskirts of the town of Albukamal, near the Syrian-Iraqi frontier, the monitoring group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Purported Islamic State positions also were hit overnight near Menbej, in the northeastern province of Aleppo, the Observatory said.

The airstrikes near Albukamal began at 10 a.m. local time and the buzz of reconnaissance aircraft flying overhead could be heard all night, said a resident of the town contacted through Facebook. FB -0.41% No further details were immediately available.

Islamic State fighters seized control of the town and the surrounding oil-rich province of Deir Ezzour in July.

At least 120 Islamist fighters, including about 50 from the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front, were killed in the first wave of U.S. attacks Tuesday that hit militant positions in the northwest, the northeast and the east of Syria, said the Observatory, a U.K. -based monitoring group tracking the conflict through a network of activists in the country.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: airstrikes; isis; syria; wot

1 posted on 09/24/2014 7:39:50 AM PDT by GonzoII
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To: GonzoII

Let’s do daylight ... the heck with the night!!!


2 posted on 09/24/2014 7:41:59 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: GonzoII

So, the military has to get permission from the Mullah Obamadork before pulling the trigger.

Question: Does the White house give the muzzies a one or two hour time and target info window before granting permission, or do they wait until just afterwards.


3 posted on 09/24/2014 7:46:38 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: GonzoII

Guess we didn’t get all the aspirin factories yet.


4 posted on 09/24/2014 7:48:00 AM PDT by dfwgator (The "Fire Muschamp" tagline is back!)
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To: no-to-illegals
when will Obie be reviewing the troops?




5 posted on 09/24/2014 7:48:24 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey (Please RESIGN Mr. President Its the RIGHT thing to do_RETIRE THE REGIME!)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Thank You, Mike! Love Ya and the Fall! obie1 ... LOL


6 posted on 09/24/2014 7:50:23 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Nice work!


7 posted on 09/24/2014 7:53:15 AM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: no-to-illegals

had there been cleaner higher resolution of the SEMPER LATTE video......I would have loved to have been able to use IT to make barry fall flat on his face...

using the available video...would have taken an enormous amount of tiem and effort...and likely have yielded lousy results

THANKS


8 posted on 09/24/2014 7:54:23 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey (Please RESIGN Mr. President Its the RIGHT thing to do_RETIRE THE REGIME!)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Thank once more Mike! We’ll sleep when dead, FRiend!


9 posted on 09/24/2014 7:56:04 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: Da Coyote

As soon as Val hears of the plans she calls her Iranian contacts and then the waiting begins. The enemy of America now lives on Pennsylvania Ave. in DC.


10 posted on 09/24/2014 7:58:41 AM PDT by MHGinTN
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To: GonzoII
The only success is seeing "acres of dead terrorists", as Colonel Ralph Peters has said.

I see that we know how to blow windows off of buildings....yay!

11 posted on 09/24/2014 8:03:37 AM PDT by lormand (Inside every liberal is a dung slinging monkey)
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To: GonzoII

Fantastic. Another waste of time money and resources...............
If what these planes are dropping is short of an atomic bomb you are just pissing into the wind.................


12 posted on 09/24/2014 8:24:06 AM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat.)
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To: GonzoII


13 posted on 09/24/2014 8:27:22 AM PDT by Iron Munro ("If you want to test a man's character, give him power." -- Abraham Lincoln)
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To: MHGinTN
As soon as Val hears informs Obama of the plans she calls her Iranian contacts


14 posted on 09/24/2014 8:42:23 AM PDT by Iron Munro ("If you want to test a man's character, give him power." -- Abraham Lincoln)
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