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First on CNN: U.S. bombs 'millions' in ISIS currency holdings
CNN ^ | 01/11/2016 | Barbara Starr

Posted on 01/11/2016 5:53:11 PM PST by BenLurkin

In an extremely unusual airstrike, the U.S. dropped bombs Sunday in central Mosul, Iraq, destroying a building containing huge amounts of cash ISIS was using to pay its troops and for ongoing operations, two U.S. defense officials told CNN.

The officials could not say exactly how much money was there or in what currency, but one described it as "millions."

Two 2,000 pound bombs destroyed the site quickly. But the longstanding impact may be even more significant. The officials said the U.S. plans to strike more financial targets like this one to take away ISIS's ability to function as a state-like entity.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bombmoney; isis; isisfunds
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1 posted on 01/11/2016 5:53:11 PM PST by BenLurkin
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Bombed the bank! Yeah!


2 posted on 01/11/2016 5:55:58 PM PST by Shugee
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I wonder how the joint chiefs snuck this one by Obama.

If were not gonna kill ISIS then I guess denying them their whoring money is the next best thing.

3 posted on 01/11/2016 5:56:10 PM PST by skeeter
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They bombed a big pile of money?


4 posted on 01/11/2016 5:56:35 PM PST by ozzymandus
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To: BenLurkin

Coming out of CNN? Really? Huh.


5 posted on 01/11/2016 5:57:45 PM PST by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: BenLurkin

That’s one way to go through QE!


6 posted on 01/11/2016 5:57:55 PM PST by tanuki (Left-wing Revolution: show biz for boring people.)
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To: ozzymandus

They bombed where the ISIS money supposedly was.

But for all I know — the ISIS money had already made its way to the Clinton Foundation.


7 posted on 01/11/2016 5:58:11 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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Well, if they did not give them warning to get the so called civilians out before they struck, I’ll give them a A on the report.

If they did warn them, they get the red F.


8 posted on 01/11/2016 5:58:28 PM PST by Cold Heat
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To: SkyDancer

Leaked by the Obamunists as a political payback, I don’t doubt.


9 posted on 01/11/2016 5:59:53 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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Does Obama know we did this? Boy, he’s not gonna be happy.


10 posted on 01/11/2016 6:00:24 PM PST by From The Deer Stand (Alka)
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To: BenLurkin

Farce. He’s moving $150 Billion to his islamonazi pals in Iran


11 posted on 01/11/2016 6:01:17 PM PST by faithhopecharity (Diff tween D's and R's is that the thatD's allow the poor to be corrupt, too. (O. Levant)
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But for all I know — the ISIS money had already made its way to the Clinton Foundation.

Or buy a piece of real estate in Dubai for Zero.

12 posted on 01/11/2016 6:02:07 PM PST by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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To: BenLurkin

The pilots said their aim was right on the money.


13 posted on 01/11/2016 6:04:29 PM PST by r_barton
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To: BenLurkin

The Imam in Chief will not be pleased.


14 posted on 01/11/2016 6:05:27 PM PST by Company Man (If you wipe your butt with your bare hand, but consider bacon unclean... you might be a Muslim.)
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To: Cold Heat
Barack Cassidy and the Sunstein Kid

I wonder how much money Bill and Hill had deposited there.

15 posted on 01/11/2016 6:06:09 PM PST by FirstFlaBn
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16 posted on 01/11/2016 6:06:22 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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Didn’t Trump say a while back that we need to go after the money as well as the oil? Global banking systems is what I think he meant, but at least this is a start.......if true...who knows these days.


17 posted on 01/11/2016 6:06:54 PM PST by DaveinOK54 (Freedom is not Free and I'll never quit defending it.)
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Bambam has to really be ticked about this.


18 posted on 01/11/2016 6:12:41 PM PST by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to the Freep-a-Thon? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Shugee

Really .. that seems kind of stupid .. why not just steal it back .. we’re talking millions here .. not pocket change.


19 posted on 01/11/2016 6:15:23 PM PST by CyberAnt ("The fields are white unto Harvest")
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To: Shugee

Now The FED runs the military?


20 posted on 01/11/2016 6:18:32 PM PST by Paladin2
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