Posted on 03/03/2019 10:50:12 PM PST by blueplum
There is a flash of light in the dark town as an airstrike hits an Islamic State weapons depot. A few seconds later, a ball of flame engulfs the entire neighbourhood. The sonic boom sends shockwaves through Baghuz, shaking the ground miles away, and for a second everything and everyone is stunned into silence. Then the artillery fire starts up again...(snip)
Trapped from the east and the west by advancing Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and by the Syrian regime and Russia on the other side of the river, the caliphate is a hellscape of smoke and fire. There is nowhere left for the fighters to go.
The US-led coalition is making up for lost time in the fight to drive Isis out of its last stronghold. After a 10-day truce to evacuate women and children from the town, the offensive restarted this weekend at a tempo not seen even in the major battles for the cities of Mosul and Raqqa.
Isis snipers, suicide bombs and heat-seeking rockets are preventing the SDF from making gains on the ground during daylight. But when darkness falls...
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
When will they be punished, with luck, this side of the grave, with certainty, the other.
Thanks. That explains why I didn’t see it in this article.
Where did they get it?
Some, one wedding ring and one gold tooth at a time. Just like their allies did in the death camps.
Most, from the deep state and its friends. $1.7 billion in unmarked bills can buy a lot of gold. (About 1,300 tons. 50 tons is barely a blip in what obama gave Iran)
I suspect this is a question the MSM really doesnt want to deal with.
If it could traced back to Saint obama The Divine, certainly not!
[[It is all totalitarian to the core. Out of control people with no moral boundaries, and chaos, is essential to their ultimate objective, to eliminate Christianity, and kill the US as a sovereign nation, and to eliminate individual liberty.]]
thank you- Yes- they are totalitarian to the core, and it’s just mind boggling that democrats are fawning all over them since dems supposedly hate totalitarianism so much
Mosul banks
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