Posted on 11/22/2015 6:17:19 PM PST by rickmichaels
Russia has launched a merciless blanket air campaign, backed by Kalibr cruise missiles fired from the Caspian and Mediterranean Seas, for the object of wiping the Islamic State's Syrian center of Raqqa off the map, DEBKAfile's military sources report.
Western and Middle East sources tracking the campaign since Friday, Nov. 20, report that at least 75 air sorties have been conducted and are systematically razing the town of 200,000 inhabitants 160km east of Aleppo, district by district, irrespective of civilian town dwellers.
Moscow wants the entire Middle East and Muslim world to see the price exacted for launching a terrorist attack on Russia after the downing of the Metrojet airliner that killed 224 people over Egyptian Sinai on Oct. 31.
Russian bombers and cruise missiles rained death and destruction on the ISIS administration center after the jihadists claimed responsibility for that disaster and published photos of a soft drink can claimed to have been rigged as a bomb for blowing the plane up.
When the Russians are done, the town will be a pile of rubble, an intelligence source told DEBKAfile.
The Russian defense ministry ran photos Friday of Russian technicians loading bombs on the Tupolev 95 bombers (dubbed "Bears" in the West). Ground crews marked the bombs "For ours," and "For Paris."
Last Tuesday, our military sources first revealed that the Tupolev's were taking off from Morozovsk air base in the Rostov district of southern Russia instead of from the Russian military enclave outside the Syrian town of Latakia.
Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu reported Friday that 15 Syrian oil facilities seized by ISIS had been destroyed this week and 525 of their trucks, costing the jihadists $1.5 million a day in revenue.
As for casualties, the published figure of 600 jihadists killed in one day is probably far below the real figure. Our sources report that the Islamist terrorists' death toll most probably runs into thousands with many more injured.
To sustain the hectic tempo of its aerial war, Moscow has doubled the number of bombers assigned to Syria from 34 two weeks ago to 69 by Saturday, Nov. 21.
Our military sources add that this augmented air power allows the Russians to expand their targets to other parts of Syria. On Friday, they renewed sorties against Syrian rebel forces holding the southern town of Deraa near the Jordanian border.
Oh, sorry, no. Maybe that’s where my professor got the idea, but if so, he never mentioned it. If I come across it in passing, I will let you know. Thanks!
Yeah, you probably right ... just because the Russians reduced Grozny, Chechnya systematically to rubble doesn’t mean they could possibly do it again, especially to more muslims. All that Chechnya stuff was likely hype and the photos where doctored WWII photos which in it self was also hype and never happened, like Raqqa .. nothing happening nothing to get excited about ... Obama and his French allies dropping handfuls of munitions here and there, once and a while, are getting the job done the right way. /s
It is only a threshold that will soon be broken. Gas hadn’t been used since ww2 and then in the middle east gas was used. Look the Davy Crockett Nuke is technology that is half a century old. A 50 pound nuke.
With demographics of moslum sharia in reality taking over the industrialized old world, those fingers on the nuclear trigger will be moslum in a decade. The question is who will throw the first punch. The human race is approaching the dark ages of Sharia. How do we modernize and tone down islum? By breeding with it? Nope not with the Islamic man having two wives and the man controlling the family under sharia.
People point to Turkey but Turkey is not longer a freedom of religion country but ruled under a party very much under Koranic influence. IF we nuke the moslums now. we have a chance of stopping them, especially if Russia does the nuking.....although the optimum idea is that the Shiites and the sunnis nuke each other....ie; the Iranians and Saudis.
Basically we are going to be playing in the NFL soon, the Nuclear Football League. In that game, the first touchdown wins. I want our side running the offense.
Hey, I could be wrong. That is a good example. I guess I just do not trust media.
In 1958 a Ecom 101 professor said the same thing. We thought he was kidding.
Guess the only way for you to find out the truth is to buy a ticket to Raqqa ...
Unfortunately, I only read about them being to busy with various Russian Armies near the Fulda Gap in Germany and on a small prison province in Turkey looking space-ward.
Since stories of those places you mention only appeared in papers, State-side magazines, and on the TTY, they cannot be trusted and likely never existed - it may all have been in your head, it seems to me - there were lots of good drugs around at the time ...
Don’t EVER post something like this to me again.
Outstanding
Now, we wish he was kidding !
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