Sounds like President Trump is already influencing policy.
Great.... but WHY was this not the course of action from Day One????
(Never mind... I know the answer — it’s that mulatto thing sitting in the WH...)
Why weren’t they hit a year ago?
This month, the coalition has launched over a dozen airstrikes...
I think I see the problem...
It’s a shame that Russia had to force the US into action!
The question is will Obama permit the gloves to come off or will he overrule the military?
US airstrikes destroy over 100 Daesh oil trucks
http://www.albawaba.com/news/us-airstrikes-destroy-over-100-daesh-oil-trucks-769038
The United States military has ramped up its offensives against Daesh in Syria, taking out scores of militant trucks during an aerial raid in the Arab country’s east, according to the New York Times.
The US Daily said Monday that American warplanes attacked hundreds of Daesh trucks earlier in the day. The extremist group has been using the trucks to smuggle the crude oil it has been producing in Syria.
Citing US officials, the NY Times said an initial assessment showed 116 trucks were destroyed in the attack, which took place near Deir al-Zour, an area controlled by Daesh militants close to Syria’s eastern border with Iraq.
The airstrikes were carried out by four A-10 attack planes and two AC-130 gunships based in Turkey, the paper added.
It said plans for the strike were developed well before the Daesh attacks in and around France’s capital city on Friday, and that the assault is part of a broader operation to disrupt Daesh’s ability to fund its terror offensives.
Daesh is said to generate as much as $40 million a month by producing and exporting oil it steals from the areas under its control.
The report said until Monday, the US had refrained from striking the Daesh oil fleet, which is estimated to include more than 1,000 tanker trucks, because of concerns about causing civilian casualties.
It noted that the new campaign is called ‘Tidal Wave II,’ named after the World War II effort to counter Nazi Germany by striking Romania’s oil industry.
According to the New York Times, which cited an unnamed US military official, a number of tactics were used to reduce the risk of harming civilians. Two F-15s dropped leaflets about an hour before the attack warning drivers to abandon their vehicles.
The area where the trucks assembled in Syria has been closely monitored by US reconnaissance drones. As many as 1,000 trucks have been observed there, waiting to receive their cargo of illicit oil, the report said, adding that at the time of the attack, 295 trucks were in the area, and more than one-third of them were destroyed.
The A-10s dropped two dozen 500-pound bombs and conducted strafing runs with 30-millimeter Gatling guns. The AC-130s attacked with 30-millimeter Gatling guns and 105-millimeter cannons.
This was Trump’s idea
Why were the gloves ever ON?
Yahoo: quick, let’s do a “Gloves Coming Off” article to impress the sheeple how tough Obama Bin Laden is on those nasty terrorists.
The US military almost certainly had plans to attack this oil revenue capability for some time. Absent, of course, was Obama regime approval for these attacks to degrade the ISIS financial infrastructure.
Obama, in addition to holding off EFFECTIVE attacks against ISIS due to his (and his & Hillary’s Muslim Brotherhood connected associates’) pro-Muslim leanings, also held off in deference to his Islamist friends in the Turkish President Erdogan’s regime. Erdogan and Turkish have substantial black-market petroleum dealings with ISIS.
Try non existent ?
Putin has forced Obama’s hand and threatens to expose how Obama has done virtually nothing to fight ISIS over the last two years
The answer to everything Obama does now needs to be a simple. ‘A year later than it needed to happen. tens of thousands have been murdered because of it.”
How will Obama justify this with his Muslim masters?
So a year later we are finally getting g serious?
I still doubt that
No worries, when the 150 billion in frozen assets from Iran becomes available, they won't need the pittance oil money.