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US Airstrikes Caught On Tape; ISIS Retaliates By Capturing Hundreds Of Yazidi Women
As the following clip shows, the explosions from two F-18s dropping 500lb bombs were large and Iraq officials stated that 45 ISIS fighters were killed (and 60 injured). While The Islamic State's response was to demand blood for US intervention, it appears they went domestic first. As AP reports, Iraqi official says hundreds of Yazidi women taken captive by Islamic State militants.
Clip showing US Airstrikes...
And the retaliation was fast...
BREAKING: Iraqi official says hundreds of Yazidi women taken captive by Islamic State militants.
— The Associated Press (@AP) August 8, 2014
As AP reports,
The spokesman for Iraq's human rights ministry says hundreds of women from the Yazidi religious minority have been taken captive by militants from the Islamic State group.
Kamil Amin says the women are below the age of 35 and some are being held in schools in Iraq's second largest city, Mosul. He said the ministry learned of the captives from their families.
Tens of thousands of Yazidis fled when the Islamic State group earlier this month captured the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar, near the Syrian border. Amin's comments were the first Iraqi government confirmation that some women were being held by the group. The Yazidis practice an ancient religion that the Sunni Muslim radicals consider heretical.
Finally we thought it worth sharing the desperate spin that analysts are putting on this as a bearish signal for oil...
"In essence we find U.S. air strikes more bearish than bullish for oil as the act finally draws a line not to cross for IS and re-enforces both the stability in south Iraq and in Kurdistan," said Oliver Jakob, an analyst at Switzerland-based Petromatrix, in a note to traders.
Good luck with that.
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Update: US has launched another round of airstrikes:
JUST IN: U.S. military warplanes launched another round of airstrikes on an ISIS target northwest of Erbil, U.S. officials tell NBC News
— NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) August 8, 2014
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Is that all we can do??? Drop some MORE!!
I thought I had retired this meme, but --
BULLISH
-- Every news item from this point forward will be BULLISH
How much for de women?
Free?
take my wife...please.
I keep taking my wife places, but she keeps finding her way back....
Yazidi, as in this Iraqi MP:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdIEm1s6yhY
Pretty messed up situation.
These guys are smart muslims, they are not going to wait till heaven for their 72 virgins. They want the tits and ass while they are still alive.
What kinda bullshit headline is that?
US AIRSRTRIKES CAUGHT ON TAPE
video of some guys talking.
Oh come on! How about the dramatic, blurry five seconds of footage of some kind of smoke plume from :09 to :14? I almost felt like my ass was strapped right inside one of the two F-18s taking out... (wait for it...) a single fucking MORTAR!
Regardless of how many nobody Kurds are getting slaughtered, the only ones the U.S. will protect are the handful of corrupt, bribed KDP officials in Irbil that can (illegally) sign away Northern Iraqi oil assets to Western oil companies. The rest of the Kurds? Fuck them - airdrop a couple of pallets of water and MREs.
The off-again, on-again Fake ISIS takeover of Iraqi's Mosul Dam is damn suspicious. That's a damn critical asset. Fake ISIS can cut power to Irbil and kill any Kurds remaining in Mosul. Yet the Peshmerga fighters twice now have reported having to retreat because the KDP couldn't find any bullets to send them. What the hell kind of Puppet-government-in-waiting in Irbil is so intept that they lose the Dam of Death because they can't arrange a damn pickup truck of ammo for the only people willing to fight for it?
The Peshmerga should take a lesson from Ukraine: U.S. puppet governments are horribly incompetent at the most basic logistical tasks of fielding an army. Ukriane soldiers are defecting to Russia. Not because of ideology, but because they are dehydrated, starving and have no ammunition. They were deployed to Eastern Ukraine and then basically abandoned. Their oligarch commanders wouldn't even answer phone calls from field commanders.
Peshmerga: you are completely fucked or soon will be. Your best bet is to march on Irbil, kill any Fake ISIS in your way, and then keep marching to the KDP headquarters and finish the job of eliminating enemies of the Kurdish people. And if you have any friends or relatives in Mosul, they better get the hell out of there. It isn't going to take many more U.S. bombs to piss-off Fake ISIS - they're going to blow the dam. How else can Israel ensure the U.S. send their sons and daughters back to Iraq to finish up the genocide and re-open the Kirkuk-Haifa pipeline?
Maliki's fall and Fake ISIS blowing the Mosul dam have been on the drawing board since day one. How could everyone have been so stupid as to trust the dual-citizens in the U.S. government?
They are allowed by islam to take sex slaves: Qur’an 33:50—O Prophet! surely We have made lawful to you your wives whom you have given their dowries, and those whom your right hand possesses out of those whom Allah has given to you as prisoners of war ...
Stealing women from neighboring tribes is a million year old human activity. It's nice to see that old ways are being preserved.
Hey, where are all da white women at?
Kruggybear is ecstatic.
Is this the buy signal we've been waiting for?
Well, the nazis used to shoot 10 hostages for every German soldier killed by paritsans (terrorists?). The films of many are still available. Hmmmm........
This has GOT to be another reason to buy Tesla, Netflix, Chipotle, El Pollo Loco, etc!
As long as we're not interrupting Kate Upton on TV, nothing else really matters:
http://tinyurl.com/pyzyxm7
Think about this logically. If you had a choice between watching Dear Leader or Kate Upton, who would you prefer to watch? Personally, if Dear Leader is giving a speech, I either find something else to watch or turn the TV off. I cannot stand to listen to his lies.
Forward (over the cliff)!
See we dont blow up woman or schools like Osama bin Obama would have been gone and no 9/11/14
NO, not the yazidi!
truthfully, it all depends on how hot these yazidi women are. if they can get some steamy pictures on the TV and internet, America will rise up and demand their release.
The Yezidis have been persecuted for hundreds of years and are almost hated by everyone. They are considered devil worshippers generally ( which is of course not exactly right ). If you can't get people upset over christians being beheaded, then the yezidis have no chance.
This is all a propaganda campaign of the highest order. These specific attacks in specific areas -western intelligence footprints are all over this.
thenakfully the iraqi army has been liquidating ISIS
http://www.sana.sy/en/?p=9382
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Hold on just a second, here. Did you say.... devil worshippers.... ?
That might be the very group that TPTB would go out of their way to protect. The Yezidis wouldn't even really have to be devil worshippers in order to elicit such a response. It would simply take that belief among the Vichy DC/Wall Street/City of London triumvirate of treachery.
Well, he did modify it with ( which is of course not exactly right ) ...which is correct, which also confuses the "hell" out of them ;-)
If i understand right in zoroastrianism the devil made the peacock to show off what he could do. The most beautiful angel venerated by the yezidi is represented by a peacock ergo..
You are right though. If they were luciferian or theistic satanists they would have passports for a place on the mediterranean.
wake me up when they kidnapped 25 jewish rabbis from tel aviv.
thats when we nose these actors are real and are not working for the mossad
Slaughtering shia, kurds and christians isn't enough?
the global we ( the west led by the US ) don't care. If they did firstly they would not have created ISIS. Secondly if they cared they would have bombed convoys back to the stone age months ago.
I have no doubt the insiders and the intelligence community are ejoying this goddamn nonsense bullshit show. This is a big deadly show.
The more I think about it the more I think this is either engineered or ultimately be used to put iraq into a perma failed state then remove kurdistan and bring them under western control.
The US is in shock ot how efficient and deadly ISIS aka ISIL is in attack and taking over targets. I think they don't want to push a major assault on ISIL because they may change their strategy and possibly destroy the norths oil facilities compoletely.
If you like your shiny new fleet of Toyotas, you can keep your shiny new fleet of Toyotas.
Christians, shmitians.
The 'noble purpose' of dropping bombs is a lie.
This is all being done because ISIS had US personnel surrounded in Erbil, and there was going to be massive slaughter cumulating in the footage of dead and decapitated Americans being splashed all over the internet.
Barry couldn't give a flying fuck about Iraqi Christians.
Not according to Jack Burton. He claims ISIS is all CIA created/controlled, and this is all a puppet show.
Well, ya see, I'm not saying that I've been everywhere and I've done everything, but I do know it's a pretty amazing planet we live on here, and a man would have to be some kind of FOOL to think we're alone in THIS universe.
According to a report published in Reuters, the group known as ISIS may have actually been trained over the last two years by the United States government in Jordan. It would be quite ironic if the United States was actually responsible for the training those now destabilizing the Iraqi nation.
The plan appears to have been to train 10,000 “moderates” of Islam in the hope that they would reinforce American interests in the region. Arizona Senator John McCain even paid a visit to the group during training to show his support. McCain was photographed with General Salim Idris, who was later expelled from the group because he was seen as too moderate for them.More on ISIS in the article below. http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2014/08/islamic-state-of-iraq-and-levant....
I run with the wackos who have been saying this for a long long time and the knee jerk reaction of many felllow wckos is to say no shit. I say bless you for being another voice to tall the truth and I an ennobled at seeing this being reported,
the group known as ISIS may have actually been trained over the last two years by the United States government in Jordan
May have been. It's whats popular for actual facts these days. Once again, no proof, and I'm not buying it.
jlee2027
hey moshe goldberg it is not a puppet show
it real
just the rabbi are runin the isis show now check out the show the soprano or der godfather 1 and 2.
it was never the italians the scheming was 100% talmudic yid no offence
That's mostly true, Obama said so last night, to protect US citizens. As for the Yazidi women, not clear when they were taken captive, before or after US bombing.
"BREAKING: Iraqi official says hundreds of Yazidi women taken captive by Islamic State militants."
ISIS will have to feed and water them, as opposed to the Yazidi on the mountain top where they are starving. They will eventually be killed in other ways I imagine.
But not until after they have a little fun.
Allah akbar
They hate us for our freedom!!!!
Eyeroller
Actually, there may be a more important reason for the "humanitarianism".
Saving oil for Israel
"Remember that the Kurds are Israel’s best – and only – allies in the region. Israeli trainers have been integrated into the pershmerga, and the first oil extracted from the newly-Kurdified regions of collapsing Iraq went straight to the Jewish state. As related on this episode of the Scott Horton Show, ISIS is at the gates of Irbil, the Kurdish regional government’s capital city. This is why we hear the War Party loudly demanding US military intervention – not to save the Yazidis, but to save a key Israeli ally."
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2014/08/07/sneaking-back-into-iraq/
How dare they take the women!! What's next, the children? This means moar war!! More freedom fries forthcoming.
"Capturing hundreds of women."
Can you imagine the bitching.
Never mind the bitching....what about the smell !!!
You two want us to leave so you can blow each other?
are they hot? or like big nosed persian/turk women... that's all that really matters
They're all hot, thats what you carry the bag for.
"hundreds of Yazidi women taken captive by Islamic State militants"
And this matter to us HOW? Sounds like they'll get a ... "jolly good rogering" and will cause them to ululate, but for different reasons than normally.
a hundred smelly yammering women sounds like torture to me, but what do i know im not a blood thirsty cave man.
Don't sell yourself short buddy. You sound like a cave man to me.
cave man is too good for you, how about asswipe fucktard btw you wife is being raped while you're not looking, feeling better now pissant?
have you volunteered yet for Obozo's mission? or maybe this kind of stuff has been going on since we were swinging from trees?
Boko Harem has a Desert Division?
The magic of franchising...
Or disfranchisement as the case may be.
Nice icon, alex. I assume you stack.
Mine used to be a silver dollar, until I got paranoid and changed it to Dale.
Yep. And we'll only find out if it's true weeks or months later because of our brand of embedded journalism.
Wonder why it is that we can see everything within minutes or hours when Gaza is attacked but not when the United States bombs the shit out of someone?... Could it mean we're more ruthless and brutal than the parasitic fuck that owns our ass when it comes to sweeping an area after we "attack"?.... How long did it take for us to find out about the thousands that were killed in Iraq bombing within the first few days of our second invasion? Orr the brutality of our white phosphorous banquet on Fallujah in 2004 that killed an italian journalists body guard who provided the only real documented evidence of the war atrocities our marines committed?...
The only thing we were already aware of is that anything that moves that doesn't move "our way" especially when it it oil traded in currencies other than USD the label magically becomes ISIS or whatever the label du jour needs to be that becomes the adversary!
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"In essence we find U.S. air strikes more bearish than bullish for oil as the act finally draws a line not to cross for IS and re-enforces both the stability in south Iraq and in Kurdistan," said Oliver Jakob, an analyst at Switzerland-based Petromatrix, in a note to traders.
Another line not to cross
Speaking of lines...
What did I tell ya. Those goddamn tur-bine a-wearin' Muz-limz are kidnappin the wimen folk, and they gonna be comin' up from Mexico if we don't stop `em!
Nice.
Sikhs. You're talking about Sikhs.
Well, goddamn-it, that's what I said: Their sikhs gonna tell them camel-jockies to attack us! You know how much money those goddamn sikhs have because of all that oil money were sending them? We built those goddamn oil wells, we aughta just go over there and take that goddamn oil insteada letin' them sikhs drive around in gold-plated cars for christ's sake!
I'll second cougar on that 'NaR'
You must know a janitor, a lawn care professional or hell someone in IT that served a couple tours in Iraq or Afghanistan and told you all about the "Hajis" and how disrespectful they were towards the GIs and Marines that served over there for "liberating them" and giving them their freedoms.
From their own bodies -that is!
Fuck religion, fuck God, fuck Allah
oh, and fuck the Fed and their manipulated markit
Someone already downvoted this
Is that because your god is better than mine, you stupid shit?
Cowardly American response as per usual. Only slightly less cowardly than drone strikes.
Yes, because beheading is so manly.
And brave...
Only real men behead women after they rape them.
... as opposed to before they rape them?
We were going to give the link earlier today of the photos of beheaded children, but decided not to as it is just too ________ (words fail). You can find the story easily if you want. If ISIS is guilty of these crimes, then they do deserve to be exterminated with extreme prejudice.
USA! USA! We invented ISIS. Reminds me of El Salvador gangs we got going in The School of Americas, Ft. Benning, GA.
I believe that is why we just had to dispense some justice to Sadam Hussein isn't it? rape rooms, torture chambers, etc.. gotta remember these guys don't have NFL..
"If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without them knowing it- the conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the public is an important element in democratic society.Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country." -- Edward Bernays
jlee2027
from your constant satanic talmudic rabbincal bitching you would think your race are the innocent victims as per chatham house bbc protocols.
but admit it you folks worship satan
it is always about blood letting
Palestinian Boy has Arm Ripped Off By Israeli Settlers for Throwing Stones*
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=11e_1358028978
Tony - all I can say is thanks for doing what needs to get done.
from your constant satanic talmudic rabbincal bitching
And I stopped reading. tony, in all kindness you need help.
It's not cowardly. Americans are lazy. We can kill these bitches with a joystick.
Fight smarter not harder.
Those women are as good as dead now. If they are returned, the Yazidi punishment for exogamy is death.
ISIS- How long before that RUSSIAN -built dam goes?
Anybody wanna guess?
ISIS Threatens America: ‘We Will Raise The Flag Of Allah In The White House’Somebody beat them to it...
(the flag, I mean)
I didn't give him the moniker GoBomb'em for no reason.
Um, I'm thinking they were planning on raping all the kuffir women anyways.
kafir
Putin blinks:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101906115
But will Zerohedge Russian apologists report it?
Zerohedge reported it 2 hours before you did...
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-08-08/market-surges-new-highs-4-day-o...
What? You learned this on CNBC just now? LOL!
Futures Soar Back To Green, Dax Over 9000 On Russian Tweet Putin Ready To De-escalatehttp://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-08-08/futures-soar-back-green-dax-ove...
Reading is hard:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-08-08/futures-soar-back-green-dax-ove...
ZH already did report it, you Ukraine/Neo-Nazi/Langley apologist.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-08-08/market-surges-new-highs-4-day-o...
Do you get paid more by the CIA than the 50 cents that the Chinese government pays to its internet shills?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party
*sigh*
Remembers the good ole days when the ZH trolls were at least semi-coherent.
Its those kids at the N*A writing the morphing code that generates all this rubbage. They can make it seem soooooo human. What they cant do is make it sound like a classic Adult from say the 50's-70's. The new punks never even saw people speak in clear coherent ways. They learned to talk by watching TV so they are unable to emulate it. This is why Putin gets some respect from young people when they hear him speak. He sounds like a leader and they never heard that before. They grew up with "I did not have sex with that woman" and " I am the decider". The difference between Bush/Obama and Putin is very dramatic. I remember when every important person aspired to sound that way.
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Somehow the whole US citizenism thing seems cerebral in comparison.
I'll bet you pulled your tiny pud out over that one and jerked off to your picture of John Kerry didn't you?
ObamaDepression
You should check ZH before making another such stupid accusation.
Suggest you read the ZH article you missed
Despite impressing you, the "tweet" about "de-escalation" is nonsense.
Russia/Putin have consistently stated from the beginning that a negotiated settlement would be best. That is most reasonable, and in contrast to the US-supported Kiev coup position of a military offensive with "no negotiations".
The alleged "tweet" is mocked because it says nothing new, and is not a "de-escalation" (except in the imaginations of stock market bulls, uncomprehending Russophobes, and sycophantic Obamaphiles).
ObamaDepression drinks (the Kool-Aid®):
Go back to worshipping your banana fellating hero in the White House, you damned warmongering hippie!
Isn't it nice how the A.P. makes us feel so good about ourselves dropping humanitarian bombs on people?
So much love in the air.
I love the smell of love in the morning. Smells like used douche water.
Can't say I ever smelled that smell before.
Kind of a curse really... to have a hyper sensitive sense of smell...
"I always tell the truth. Even when I lie"...
~ Tony Montana~
ROTFLMFAO! > Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Afghan women: 'We will not abandon you' - NY Daily News
I will take my chances with Tony Montana over Hilcunt.
Yours truely, Women.
That conniving bitch doesn't deserve a quick death... She should be buried alive, along side Jimmy Hoffa @ Giants stadium.
adjective adjective: conniving given to or involved in conspiring to do something immoral, illegal, or harmful.2nd Amendment Gun Rights?
IF Every Yazidi owned an AR like the Swiss do, and this never happens.
Re: 2nd Amendment Gun Rights?
ISIS is the well-regulated militia.
As they watch their friend’s head rolling down the hill, do you think the X-ian up next believes they’ll be raptured at any moment?
I don't see how this could go wrong. This will absolutely work and ISIS will surrender.
ISIS - The Usual Suspects
The United States’ Biggest “Allies” Are Funding ISISPaul Joseph Watson | Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar & Turkey all back terror
Yeah and SA are kinda wishing now they hadn't been so excited about that part, what with ISIS getting ready to set fire to their apostate money-worshiping asses. You'll know it's over when ISIS lobs a rocket into the Kaaba.
I have to wonder how much this had to do with Bandar bin Bush getting fired.
Well the Muslims wanted their Califate, I guess now they know what they really get with that.
Hope they enjoyed being civilized for about 30 years because looks like that whole experiment is just fucking over.
It is Allah's will. If it wasn't, Allah would have prevented it. You have a problem with Allah?
Come on, now, don't lose your head.
dont you think its time to stop believing in made-up god stories yet ? I fail to see how ANY religion can excuse murder 'cos the people being murdered believe in a different made-up story to theirs....
& all this muslim-on-muslim killing , how does allah see that then ?
chuffed, is [s]he ?
& you speak directly for allah do you ? 'cause you seem to be threatening on his/her behalf....
people do stuff, bad stuff, & then say a fictional carater is responsible for it or else it wouldnt have happened.... perfect excuse every time , but not very sane is it ?
Are you therefore never responsable for your own actions ???
If a christian said god told him to do it they are treated as insane. What's the difference ?
Mmm. Turned your sarcasm detector off, did you?
Just evacuate everyone and get out. The US can't beat this new spawn of super-cockroaches
This is what happens when you procrastinate.
FORWARD!!! our Dear Leader Bamster shall lead us to victory!!!! now back to our origionally scheduled golf match.
What IS IS?
The Arab Division of the US Army.
Quick some fucker move as fast as you can and give that skinny necked cunt in the 'WHITE' house another 'Pieces Prize' before anyone notices he is a murdering fucking cunt, of any race.
Before the fucker starts talking about 'Folks' and telling us just how good he is about everything, including his stupid fucking cuntish self. Off a TV Promter.
And if you may be quick enough, you quick footed fucker, ask him how that works with the Mexicans, and gun running, but only if you be quick mind.
Cunt
Skinny fucking shithawk cunt at that.
;-)
LOL Right on. The whole "ISIS" shit show is nothing but Fast and Furious 2.0
The plausible deniability being 'we were just tryna keep an eye on 'em'
FUCK THIS!! The US wants to claim that it is unleashing airstrikes to stop genocide in Iraq!?!?! How about the millions of innocent Iraqis killed directly by the US or indirectly through initially supporting Saddam and then through sanctions. We have been fucking with these people for over 35yrs. How sadistic and sociopathic a country can you be? WTF!
"It was worth it." -- Albright
"What difference does it make?"-Clinton
Its getting ugly. Things have deteriorated to the point that Americans are using every opportunity to take their eyes off what is happening in Iraq, the country has become a train wreck and is rapidly morphing into a failed State.
ISIS has shocked much of the world by capturing Mosul in an offensive that allowed the group to take control of major parts of northern and western Iraq. On June 29, 2014 the Islamist militants declared an Islamic "caliphate" in an area straddling Iraq and Syria. For more on ISIS see the article below.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2014/08/islamic-state-of-iraq-and-levant....
This is all lies! The real enemy is the Jooz. Islam is a religion of peace!
So all the other religions should wipe out these barbaric two?
Problem solved! Brilliant ZitSam I mean XitSam
Re: The real enemy is the Jooz. Islam is a religion of peace!
Don't forget the ZH hate priority list:
1) Jews
2) Muslims
3) Dagos, Greeks, and Polacks
4) "those people"
5) Anybody making minimum-wage.
It's very selfish of the Yazidis to deflect attention from the suffering of the Jews.
May the bird of Paradise crawl up your nose when your head is chopped off by your savage friends.
I'm much more concerned by fucks like you and NotaRealAmerican...dual citizen, traitor types...need to be purged
Allah's getting it in tonight. Epic desert orgy in 3,2,1. Good job Obongo.
Globally it seems curtains for Palestines and X-ains.
Everly Brothers - Bye Bye Love - Original HQ Audio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRyrWN-fftE
Better to Kill as many of these savages while there over then then wait to welcome them when they cross our southern borders. Border patrols have already reported pray rugs and a number of illegals coming from Middle eastern countries. Now when they arrive their greeted by Glen Beck with Teddy bears.
foxmulder it is so uncool to upmark your own words.
but then what do you expect from a new york rabbi
Can this be why the stock market is up big today? Volume is lower so all your low dippers get back in there now and Buy! Buy! Buy!
The Yazidi have a little too much Christian in them for oBUMMER's taste. He set em up.
Can this be why the stock market is up big today? Volume is lower so all your low dippers get back in there now and Buy! Buy! Buy!
So wait. They didn't like our bombs or our aid?
No shit?
What am I going to send them for Christmas?
Two F-18s burn $60K of JP-8 and drop two $350K LJDAMs to destroy a $110K towed artillery piece ISIS picked up for free from Mosul...
What, is Yellen doing DoD targeting now too?
Why not just strafe every f-ng Toyota Hilux (ME version of the Tacoma) filled with barbarians in black man-jammies and waving that Alan's Snack Bar flag with 20 and 30mm cannons? Probably cause more effective damage IMO.
Speaking of ‘black man-jammies’…
Where have those nice Blackwater folks been lately?
New name, same game
http://academi.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academi
Such an innocent-sounding name. Sounds like some place you earn an online high school diploma.
Donbas.
You must have missed the memo. Executive order 13335 mandates that all JDAMs be referred to as Freedom Bombs
That's what the A-10C based in england does best.
Fuel is the least of it, just the service rate on an F-18 has to be $10k/hr and that's a four-hour round trip plus Depends for the pilots, not to mention the in-flight refueling tanker and AWACs or whatever that Navy version is called, plus satellite or recon flight time, etc.
Carrier can't do much tac air from 1,000 miles away, it's a joke, I hope you're laughing. Mostly, it's to show how much we care.
F-18s are Navy, so they would have burned $65K of JP-5 to take out the mortar. Higher flash point, but the same lingering Jet-A stink that gets in your hair, clothes and boots. You need to use a blowtorch and pliers on yourself to get rid of that smell.
"Whey all the white women at?"
....Sheriff Bart
Religious extremists combined with american help. Best combination to spread democracy.
I'm sure that the government installed by the US will serve the country and its population well. /s
Don't be fooled by the "religion" part. They want what everybody else wants: money and power. Religion is just a justification to fool the masses.