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US airstrikes kill at least 250 ISIS fighters in convoy outside Fallujah, official says
FoxNews.com ^ | June 29, 2016 | Foxnews.Com

Posted on 06/29/2016 5:20:36 PM PDT by Biggirl

A series of American airstrikes killed at least 250 ISIS fighters driving in a convoy outside Fallujah on Wednesday, a senior U.S. defense official confirmed to Fox News.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: airstrikes; fallujah; gwot; iraq; isis
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To: Biggirl

Too little, too late.


21 posted on 06/29/2016 5:41:37 PM PDT by JPJones ( You can't help the working class by paying the non-working class.)
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To: Biggirl

About 18 months too late. If it had happened 18 months ago, there wouldn’t be much of ISIS to deal with.

Thanks Obama. You’re always on time, for the enemy!


22 posted on 06/29/2016 5:41:59 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Westbrook

So until now they have felt relatively safe from air strikes? Otherwise it makes no sense to lay yourselves out as an easy target. I mean I have no personal military experience but it seems like a common sense defensive tactic not to drive long distances in large groups without air cover. Though others say this ‘convoy’ may not have been so large....


23 posted on 06/29/2016 5:45:28 PM PDT by monkeyshine
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To: COBOL2Java; Tennessee Nana; All

Did anyone else happen to catch General Honore on Fox Business, today?

He pretty much slammed Trump’s ‘tone’....echoing 0bola...regarding our need for diplomacy with our allies in the ME.

I was truly disappointed, as I recall being (somewhat) impressed with this General during the Katrina aftermath.

He went on to say that ‘this war on terrorism could take decades...maybe even three decades’ to complete. Unreal.

Charles Payne seemed floored about this, as well.


24 posted on 06/29/2016 5:46:05 PM PDT by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

Meh, they are the JV team.


25 posted on 06/29/2016 5:46:20 PM PDT by monkeyshine
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To: Biggirl

If this was 2007 the headline would have been oh so much different.


26 posted on 06/29/2016 5:47:16 PM PDT by DAC21
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To: volunbeer

It appears clear that ValJar doesn’t want A-10s shootin’ up any desert convoys.


27 posted on 06/29/2016 5:49:51 PM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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To: TMSuchman

Ask the DOD public affairs officers if videos of the air strikes exist and if so, when will they be available to the public on YouTube or DOD site.

Let us know what they say.

I used to get a lot of post-strike photos from DDI during the Vietnam war, mainly over NVN. Some great ones of SAM anti-aircraft missile sites located on civilian dikes (Baby Jane said we were deliberately targeting the dikes in order to flood NVN and kill millions. Well, if anyone knew about dykes, it was Jane).


28 posted on 06/29/2016 5:50:32 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: DesertRhino

Oh, we’ve got the video all right.


29 posted on 06/29/2016 5:54:32 PM PDT by Justa
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To: Westbrook

“There are photos everywhere on the internet of long convoys of these Islamo-fascists.”

In brand new Toyota trucks.


30 posted on 06/29/2016 5:54:35 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: DAC21

You are right - we did not recognize or address the threat of ISIS soon enough. However, history will show after the brainwashed MSM and academics today die off that ISIS was mostly created by the power vacuum of the Arab Spring. Thanks to this administration.......


31 posted on 06/29/2016 5:54:46 PM PDT by volunbeer (ABH for President! - Anybody but Hillary)
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To: Jane Long

Well one thing is certain, that we need the Arab countries to fight them on their home turf, and not to sponsor extremism etc. There are lots of complications, such as recent news that Jordan was allowing our arms shipments to get pilfered and sold in the black market. But all this would seem to support Trumps idea that we should severely restrict immigration from this region until we get a handle on it. Pressuring our allies is absolutely necessary and the threat of a travel ban is a heck of a lot of pressure.

The fact that our weapons are stolen and sold, or as Trump said we abandoned thousands of working condition heavy machinery on the field just shows the level of incompetence, lack of accountability and/or lack of consideration in government. This kind of negligence permeates all layers and levels of government. There is no incentive at all for officials to do the right thing.


32 posted on 06/29/2016 5:54:52 PM PDT by monkeyshine
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To: Biggirl

Political pressure is on the White Mosque, so they cooked up this story.

NEVER HAPPENED.

It’s insulting they expected anyone to believe this.


33 posted on 06/29/2016 5:54:54 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

If it really happened, there are definitely live videos as it happened.


34 posted on 06/29/2016 5:55:44 PM PDT by wrench
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To: Biggirl

It’s a start ..


35 posted on 06/29/2016 5:57:27 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Paladin2

Trump should take the videos of their convoys and make a campaign commercial out of it....... We have lost so many chances to strike them hard because of the ridiculous rules of engagement and layers of bureaucracy that lie between target acquisition and firing.


36 posted on 06/29/2016 5:57:29 PM PDT by volunbeer (ABH for President! - Anybody but Hillary)
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To: volunbeer

Look, ISIS = dumbasses. Bunch of guys standing around. Woosh-boom. Paveway hits them courtesy Predator lazing. Survivors are like “wtf just happend?” Solution: “K, let’s regroup over here in this building” Boom - JDAM Snakeeye.

They’re FKN MORONS.


37 posted on 06/29/2016 5:58:52 PM PDT by Justa
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To: gaijin

shot one... a us plane or other asset deploying the “bomb” or “missile” at 15,000 ft.

shot two... on the ground results of a Russian bombing run (recorded earlier) is displayed without any connection whatsoever, to the supposed bomb or missile deployment.

PROOF POSITIVE that Obambam’s military did something (forgery of the video composite of course ...)!!!


38 posted on 06/29/2016 6:00:01 PM PDT by MIA_eccl1212 (10 rounds 10 meters 10 seconds 10 centimetres)
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To: disndat
It was only two vehicles. Is that a convoy?

If it was 10 with only one set of jumper cables it was a Mexican funeral.

39 posted on 06/29/2016 6:00:40 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: volunbeer

There is no reason that all travel from hamlet to hamlet should not have been halted for years.


40 posted on 06/29/2016 6:01:08 PM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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