Posted on 09/02/2017 7:08:31 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The US-led coalition says it will keep blocking a convoy of evacuated Islamic State militants in Syria from reaching IS-held territory on the Iraq border.
The hundreds of fighters recently surrendered an enclave on Syria's border with Lebanon.
They agreed with Hezbollah and the Syrian government that they would leave with their families and head eastwards.
But the coalition says it and Iraq were not part of the deal and on Tuesday bombed the road ahead of the convoy.
The buses are now stranded in an area of desert under Syrian government control between the towns of Humayma and al-Sukhnah.
However reports say the Syrian army and Hezbollah are seeking a new route for the convoy and a monitoring group says dozens of people have already left in cars heading for the IS-held province of Deir al-Zour.
"The coalition will not condone Isis [IS] fighters moving further east to the Iraqi border," the coalition said in a statement.
"Relocating terrorists from one place to another, for someone else to deal with, is not a lasting solution," it added.
There are some 300 IS militants on board the convoy, described by the coalition as "experienced fighters".
The coalition says it has not bombed them because about 300 women and children are also present, but it says a tank, armed vehicles and other vehicles facilitating the relocation have been targeted.
Food and water has been provided to the convoy, the statement says, and the coalition has also - via Russia - offered suggestions to Syria on possible ways of rescuing the women and children.
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Oh noes!!!
How about obliterating it?
Stranded? Bomb them! Not a single member should be alive. But, alas, this is likely an opportunity already come and gone.
Islamic terrorists are invariably embedded with women and children.
It says in the report:
“The coalition says it has not bombed them because about 300 women and children are also present, but it says a tank, armed vehicles and other vehicles facilitating the relocation have been targeted.”
“ISIS convoy stranded in Syria desert after US bombing.”
Well, sorry guys, but Hit Shappens!
Sounds like a ‘target rich environment’. Time to test out the Tucanos and keep the A-10 pilots practiced up. Syria’s ‘Highway of Death’.
This is not a good action by the US government. It will make it harder to deal with small ISIS pockets. It’s better to get them all in one place for final destruction.
Blocking this convoy is NOT anti-ISIS, it’s part of the larger FedGov/Deep State strategy of making it hard for the Syrian government to reestablish control over Syria.
Keep the busses.
One two thousand pounder problem solved
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1 Samuel 15:2-421st Century King James Version (KJ21)
2 Thus saith the Lord of hosts: ‘I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he lay in wait for him on the way when he came up from Egypt.
3 Now go and smite Amalek and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.’”
4 And Saul gathered the people together and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen and ten thousand men of Judah.
I was thinking that too.
I guess I’d like the see a syrian reprise of the Iraq war “Highway of Death”.
Obama should have done that to ISIS when they started Marching into Iraq. Instead he gave them an invitation.
It should have looked like the Republican Guard retreating from Kuwait.
Islamic terrorists = Dead. Good riddance to them and their spawn. Else, give them 5 minutes to send the kids out, then bomb them. But do not let a single adult out.
Stop the civilized stuff with these uncivilized reprobates. Kill them all. Make them pay the price for their uncivilized murders,
Some of the women will end up like the beatch in San Diego, and the children will grow up to avenge dad. Blast them!
If those wimps in the Pentagon had been in charge during World War II, we’d all be bilingual today — German and Japanese.
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