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B-2 bombers kill nearly 100 ISIS terrorists in Libya
FoxNews ^ | 1-19-17 | Lucas Tomlinson

Posted on 01/19/2017 7:14:08 AM PST by workerbee

A pair of B-2 "stealth" bombers blasted two ISIS training camps in Libya on Wednesday evening, dropping 108 precision-guided bombs and sending jihadists scattering -- many of whom were then "cleaned up" by drone-launched hellfire missiles, U.S. defense officials told Fox News.

The assault killed an estimated 85 terrorists at the camps, which were about 30 miles southwest of the Libyan coastal city of Sirte.

President Obama authorized the action. Most of the terrorists targeted had escaped Sirte after extensive military actions there.

U.S. drones "cleaned up" the operation by launching hellfire missiles that killed a several of ISIS fighters trying to run to safety.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhogwot; isis; libya; trumptransition; usaf
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1 posted on 01/19/2017 7:14:08 AM PST by workerbee
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To: workerbee

Obama is about 8 years Late.


2 posted on 01/19/2017 7:16:02 AM PST by chatham
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To: workerbee

Good work.


3 posted on 01/19/2017 7:16:28 AM PST by elhombrelibre (Cogito ergo sum a conservative pro-American.)
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To: workerbee

Obama is about 8 years Late.


4 posted on 01/19/2017 7:16:34 AM PST by chatham
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To: chatham

Going out with a bang.


5 posted on 01/19/2017 7:16:41 AM PST by workerbee (America finally has an American president again.)
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It took 108 bombs to kill 85 terrorists???

Okay. Okay. Flame away.

Besides, do we really trust Barky to be killing terrorists while he's releasing other terrorists from Gitmo?

Color me skeptical.

6 posted on 01/19/2017 7:17:09 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals w.ould have no standtairds at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: workerbee

I have this image of Obama screaming all day long today into his phone and all he gets is busy signals.


7 posted on 01/19/2017 7:17:37 AM PST by Daniel Ramsey (MAGA)
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To: workerbee

There goes Obama’s 2017 Nobel Peace Prize.


8 posted on 01/19/2017 7:17:50 AM PST by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping list.)
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To: workerbee

Bad day to be working at the baby milk factory


9 posted on 01/19/2017 7:18:05 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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To: chatham

I guess today, for some reason, he had the intense urge to kill somebody.


10 posted on 01/19/2017 7:18:55 AM PST by workerbee (America finally has an American president again.)
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Two B-2s, 108 PGMS dropped and an unspecified number of He’ll fire missiles to kill 100 people? At this rate we’ll go broke.


11 posted on 01/19/2017 7:19:53 AM PST by Tallguy
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I wonder how many Viet Cong got killed in an average ARC LIGHT strike.


12 posted on 01/19/2017 7:21:06 AM PST by NorthMountain (CNN is Fake News)
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To: workerbee

Why use stealth bombers?

What state actor is helping them with radar support?

Or is the “JV Team” sophisticated enough to have high altitude radar?


13 posted on 01/19/2017 7:21:46 AM PST by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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Aircraft from NATO bases would be more economical if they would assume their share of the load.


14 posted on 01/19/2017 7:23:02 AM PST by Joe Bfstplk (A Irredeemable Deplorable)
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To: Tallguy

Yes, it was expensive, but that’s what they’re for.


15 posted on 01/19/2017 7:23:31 AM PST by toast
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Flying in from the Show Me...


16 posted on 01/19/2017 7:24:58 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: Texas Eagle

So we dispatched two B-2 Stealth Bombers ($737 million per) and dropped 108 precision guided bombs (J-DAM cost $25,000.00 per) and killed a whopping 85 terrorists?

Obama released almost that many from Gitmo while President!


17 posted on 01/19/2017 7:28:49 AM PST by airborne (I don't always scream at the TV but when I do it's hockey playoffs season!)
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To: workerbee

But he couldn’t send air support to Benghazi.


18 posted on 01/19/2017 7:31:55 AM PST by mad_as_he$$ ("It's a war against humanity!" Donald J. Trump)
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To: Tallguy

What did 9/11 cost our country?


19 posted on 01/19/2017 7:32:34 AM PST by elhombrelibre (Cogito ergo sum a conservative pro-American.)
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To: airborne

"Yesz. That is what I have been zsaying."
20 posted on 01/19/2017 7:35:12 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals w.ould have no standtairds at all -- Texas Eagle)
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