Posted on 01/19/2017 10:48:22 AM PST by BeadCounter
American B-2 stealth bombers and armed drones have attacked two Islamic State military camps in Libya, killing 80 IS militants near their former bastion of Sirte, Pentagon chief Ash Carter said on Thursday.
"They certainly are people who were actively plotting operations in Europe and may also have been connected to some attacks that have already occurred in Europe," Carter said on his last day in office.
The strike late Wednesday came a month after the United States officially wrapped up military operations in and around Sirte, where it had conducted nearly 500 strikes to help the Libyan unity government expel militants from the coastal city.
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Why now? He had years to do so.
That’s a Good Start!
And what is ISIS doing in Libya? There were none before Obama bombed the snot out of it, overthrew the government, and destabilized the whole area.
>Why didnt 0dunga do this a year ago? The timing of this strike is HIGHLY suspect. The timing of the strike says more than the strike itself.
Just speculation: Maybe the Pentagon feels free to actually attack our enemies now that the enemy in the white house is about done.
*** Nope. 0dunga is desperately trying to DESTROY EVIDENCE of his (and Hillarys and McCains and Brennans, etc.) involvement with CREATING ISIS. ***
Agreed
Yep. Too little, too late.
One good thing that bammy can be remembered for.
If these terrorists were threatening Europe, then why didn’t Europe strike them?
Nice round number
Sending B-2’s half-way around the world to kill 80 ISIS, doesn’t seem very cost effective.
Oh, I forgot we don’t have any carriers in the area for some reason.
The report said the B-2s flew out of Whiteman AFB.
Not that MSM reporting is reliable.
He has become pro-American at the last minute before Trump takes over.
Can’t we at least send Participation Trophies to the surviving ISIS family members?
Maybe...”Winner in President Barack Obama’s last slaughter!”
Another belief, allegedly supported by actual facts, might be that while the Golfer In Chief wasn't running the store/empire - the Clinton Global Initiative cabal was busy looting it in collusion with their usual suspect bidness partners... who are now whining that "the Russians did it" - because their cash cow didn't get elected back into its stall in the White Hut.
This series follows the ex-CEO of the Clinton Foundation from setting up the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission in 2010 as a McKinsey consultant for the Clinton Foundation through the toppling of the government of Libya, the attempted topple of the government of Syria to the present day. The series is based on an open source research project by the same name trying to find the missing children of Haiti and the missing $7.1B of USAID money.
Another notch on Obama’s “Peace Prize.”
Gee before they were claiming a hundred.....is this like jobs numbers they keep adjusting until the truth (zero) comes out?
Flight time for the pilots. Nothing much else of value in this op.
Just think how many more ISIS idiots would have been killed if it were napalm instead of explosives.
A B2 strike from a US base half a world away to kill 80 ISIS militants seems like a waste of power. Certainly there are other US assets that could have done this job with less effort. What is needed is massive carpet bombing of all ISIS areas.
>A B2 strike from a US base half a world away to kill 80 ISIS militants seems like a waste of power. Certainly there are other US assets that could have done this job with less effort. What is needed is massive carpet bombing of all ISIS areas.
It’s a good call when you consider how many anti-air missiles systems are floating around Libya.
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