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First on CNN: US airstrikes in Libya on ISIS camps
CNN ^ | January 19, 2017 | Barbara Starr

Posted on 01/19/2017 5:39:23 AM PST by rdl6989

CNN)US B-2 bombers struck ISIS camps in Libya overnight, several US officials told CNN Thursday. The mission, which is expected to be the last, short-notice military operation ordered by President Barack Obama, was approved several days ago by the President, according to sources. US surveillance aircraft had been watching the sites for weeks as fighters fled from Sirte on the coastline into what they perceived to be the safety of remote desert areas. But the isolation of the area gave those surveillance aircraft clear imagery showing military-aged males in several areas, according to officials.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: gwot; isis; libya
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1 posted on 01/19/2017 5:39:23 AM PST by rdl6989
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What happened? Did some right winger release a video?


2 posted on 01/19/2017 5:41:26 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: rdl6989

Probably a Christian refugee camp.


3 posted on 01/19/2017 5:42:33 AM PST by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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They told CNN...US Officials. Would someone please give President E. Trump their names?


4 posted on 01/19/2017 5:42:41 AM PST by Obbiee
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To: rdl6989

This is air support for the ‘friendly jihadists’?


5 posted on 01/19/2017 5:45:32 AM PST by TigerClaws
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The IS terrorist forces spawned by the “Arab Spring” in Libya ordered and promoted by the enemies of Donald J. Trump ranging from Barack Obama to Hillary Clinton to John McCain and Lindsey Graham.

Those four people are the best friends of jihadists and Al Qaeda in Libya and Syria.


6 posted on 01/19/2017 5:45:42 AM PST by Nextrush (Freedom is everybody's business: Remember Pastor Niemoller)
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To: Obbiee

they will be gone by tomorrow night so what’s the use finding out who did it!

I think tomorrow Trump should change the orders to the col flying the 747 to Palm Springs. Right after takeoff, adjust their plan for GITMO and put that POS and whoever is flying with him on ice down there in protective custody. Other Presidents who left office returned to their home, not some golfing expedition on our dime.


7 posted on 01/19/2017 5:46:03 AM PST by Mouton (The insurrection laws maintain the status quo now.)
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To: Nextrush

Lindsey Graham.

Speaking of him, he was on with Tucker last night. This guy is unhinged.


8 posted on 01/19/2017 5:47:06 AM PST by Mouton (The insurrection laws maintain the status quo now.)
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They’re probably destroying evidence of Hillary’s crimes.


9 posted on 01/19/2017 5:48:37 AM PST by rdl6989
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Is he bombing American troops or our friends and allies?


10 posted on 01/19/2017 5:50:05 AM PST by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed)
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Witness removal? /skeptic


11 posted on 01/19/2017 5:50:22 AM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamiin Franklin)
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While I would normally be all for this, Obama doing military actions when there are only 24+ hours left in his presidency, concerns me.

Greatly.

Like as in, what Russian hardware and people is he killing?


12 posted on 01/19/2017 5:55:52 AM PST by Lazamataz (TRUMP LIED TO ME!!!! ....He said I'd get sick of winning.... AND I'M NOT SICK OF WINNING YET!!!!)
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Some Obama staffer was watching “ Patriot Games” and decided to order up some B-2’s to bomb some tents instead of just sending a cruise missile up a camels a$$

Barky trying to show Putin that size matters


13 posted on 01/19/2017 5:56:46 AM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: rdl6989

Chimp wagging the dog ?


14 posted on 01/19/2017 5:58:03 AM PST by tomkat
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Stirring up the ant mound for the next picnicker.

What an annoying person!


15 posted on 01/19/2017 6:10:18 AM PST by rawcatslyentist (And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed,)
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“”Witness removal? /skeptic””

you got it... why would they wait AFTER YEARS

of inaction-? can’t wait for 1 more day- o’bozo leaves-


16 posted on 01/19/2017 6:10:35 AM PST by mj1234
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To: rdl6989

Probably destroying evidence of his collaboration and sponsorship.


17 posted on 01/19/2017 6:21:21 AM PST by thoughtomator (Purple: the color of sedition)
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This was my first thought.


18 posted on 01/19/2017 6:29:39 AM PST by rdl6989
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“...short notice military operation...”

How convenient Obama had no such thing to help our boys in Benghazi. I suspect these were witnesses he had knocked off.


19 posted on 01/19/2017 6:37:22 AM PST by Chauncey Gardiner
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To: Lazamataz
While I would normally be all for this, Obama doing military actions when there are only 24+ hours left in his presidency, concerns me.

That depends. If the soon-to-be unemployed communist briefed President Trump and cleared it with him, and if it was for once based on facts, the attack is entirely appropriate. If this was political, then it is a serious problem, but added to such a long list of other serious problems that it hardly matters.

20 posted on 01/19/2017 6:39:03 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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