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U.S. Warns ISIS Capital: Get Out Now
The Daily Beast ^ | 05.20.16 | Nancy Youssef

Posted on 05/20/2016 12:34:19 PM PDT by BeauBo

The American military is warning residents of ISIS’s Syrian capital to leave the city—suggesting that an offensive on Raqqa was imminent, two Pentagon officials told the Daily Beast.

In the past day, residents of Raqqa have posted photos of the warnings on Twitter, saying they were airdropped on leaflets by the U.S.-led coalition. The defense officials were the first to confirm that the coalition had indeed issued the warnings.

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TOPICS: Russia; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: dailybeast; iran; iraq; isis; isiscapital; jordan; kurdistan; lebanon; nancyyoussef; putingaveiranthebomb; raqqa; russia; syria; syriaisis; syriawar; twitter; ussyria; waronterror
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To: Cvengr
" In Psyops, the effective bombing campaign might produce 10x the effect if the population is told it is coming in advance. After it is promulgated, one can erode confidence in the enemy chain of command, either by repetitive propaganda bombing, or by making good on the threat, then repeating the action with another warning threat. After a while, the enemy forces become more reliant on your message, than on the word of their own chain of command."

Here's the problem - that only works when CoC holds his cards close to his vest and might accept proximate civ casualties.

Bobo has - for 8 long years - chokeholded our armed forces with NO civ casualties as SOP, and ruined careers that deviated from that so much as +1. Endless FReep threads attest to same.

41 posted on 05/20/2016 3:11:11 PM PDT by StAnDeliver ("Too bad your overhauled unicorn start-up failed, Ted.")
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To: BeauBo
time to hit reset...
42 posted on 05/20/2016 3:12:58 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - Luke, 22:36)
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To: DesertRhino
bomb them one day, feed them the next?

I would say, in the eyes of many around the world, that sums up the United States to a tee.

43 posted on 05/20/2016 3:15:56 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Make America Normal Again)
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To: fivecatsandadog

but her ankles are showing - she’ll have to stay behind and suffer the consequences of being so provocative


44 posted on 05/20/2016 3:44:06 PM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: Donglalinger

Exactly. War is most effective when the price the enemy pays is high. Crap like this only prolongs a conflict.


45 posted on 05/20/2016 3:47:36 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: StAnDeliver

Well I’ll be... the old PC foreshortened the picture. I can see all of it now with my kindle, which also is not long for this world.


46 posted on 05/20/2016 3:49:17 PM PDT by fivecatsandadog ( "Radical" Muslims will kill you. "Moderates" will thank allah for the radicals who kill you.)
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To: ichabod1

ROFLMAO. Thinking the same thing, especially when Soetoro says it. “ITHIL” - limp wrist with a swish of arse.


47 posted on 05/20/2016 3:55:16 PM PDT by fivecatsandadog ( "Radical" Muslims will kill you. "Moderates" will thank allah for the radicals who kill you.)
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To: bus man
This leaflet shows the difference in how civilized people wage war versus how barbarians do it. ISIS not only doesn’t warn people they’re about to attack, they deliberately target innocent civilians. But the United States cares enough about civilians trapped in ISIS-controlled areas that we at least give them a chance to get out of the way.

While I appreciate the high moral ground you advocate I'm willing to bet any ISIS who can read is bugging out right now.

And for those of you thinking that this is a recent phenomenon, the U.S. dropped warning leaflets on some of the Japanese cities a couple of days before we bombed the stuffing out of them during World War II.

Wasn't this toward the end of the war when Japan was pretty much defeated?

We're not there yet with ISIS.

Plus, we didn't have troops on the ground in Japan at this point.

48 posted on 05/20/2016 4:43:17 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Donglalinger
Remember when we didn’t give the enemy 48 hours to prepare for an attack?

Lets tell ISIS when were coming so all of them can leave too.

49 posted on 05/20/2016 5:21:38 PM PDT by teletech
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To: Donglalinger

Yep. That was when we used to win.


50 posted on 05/20/2016 5:25:13 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: BeauBo
WHY in the HELL do you ANNOUNCE what you're going to do?

No need for anyone to answer. It was only a rhetorical question.

51 posted on 05/20/2016 6:18:27 PM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: Donglalinger

Actually, no.

This would not be unusual.

It is chivalrous. It is the western way.


52 posted on 05/20/2016 8:14:01 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: All

When Trump takes office:

Satellites see ISIS beginning a parade of troops and weaponry down a main thoroughfare in one of the captured cities...

US Navy warplanes fly down the street and wipe out every living being and destroy every piece of equipment in minutes...

Another US Navy plane follows about 15 minutes after the attack...

It drops leaflets that tell the people we are coming....


53 posted on 05/20/2016 8:20:52 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: Donglalinger

My thought exactly, what does it accomplish to bomb the place to rubble if all the Muslim bastards have cleared out?


54 posted on 05/20/2016 8:37:44 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: wildbill

Didn’t I recall seeing that a squadron of B52 BUFFs had been sent to the Mid East not too long ago.?

Maybe we won’t carpet bomb, just throw-rug bomb the jihadis.


Wouldn’t surprise me if there is something brewing there. I’m sure the kenyan wants to go out with a BANG.


55 posted on 05/20/2016 10:23:09 PM PDT by lodi90 (Clear choice for Conservatives now: TRUMP or lose)
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To: teletech

-—Lets tell ISIS when were coming so all of them can leave too.
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and bring them to the US as dem voters.. I mean refugees...


56 posted on 05/21/2016 1:04:50 AM PDT by Bubba Gump Shrimp (A Liberal is someone who cannot accept that there is a Law of Unintended Consequences)
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To: BeauBo

B-52s out of Diego Garcia are about to level Raqqa?

Cool.

Alahwahoo Waxbar !


57 posted on 05/21/2016 1:29:15 AM PDT by Candor7 ( Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: oldvirginian
I am sitting in lynchburg, VA watching the Blue Angels practice their show.

I'm jealous

Enjoy the Show x2 for Me please!

58 posted on 05/21/2016 1:35:52 AM PDT by mabarker1 (Progress- the opposite of congress)
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To: lacrew

Lol right


59 posted on 05/21/2016 3:56:27 AM PDT by ElisabethInCincy
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
I love slow news days.

60 posted on 05/21/2016 11:43:56 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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