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"Get Out Of Your Trucks And Run Away": US Gives ISIS 45 Minute Warning On Oil Tanker Strikes

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Last week, in the wake of Russian and US airstrikes on ISIS oil convoys, we asked three important questions: 

  1. Who are the commodity trading firms that have been so generously buying millions of smuggled oil barrels procured by the Islamic State at massive discounts to market, and then reselling them to other interested parties? In other words, who are the middlemen?
  2. Can it possibly be true, as officials now claim, that the Obama administration refrained from bombing Islamic State oil trucks because Washington thought the group was “only” making $100 million per year instead of $400 million? 
  3. Is it likely, considering how cavalier the US is about collateral damage from drone strikes, that The Pentagon refused to take out Islamic State’s revenue stream because the military was afraid of killing a few “innocent” truck drivers who by definition knew they were transporting illegal crude for a terrorist organization?

The first question is, for now anyway, unanswerable. As to the second and third, here’s what we said:

Perhaps the US overestimated the effect its airstrikes were having on Islamic State’s oil production capabilities and perhaps The Pentagon was concerned with killing innocent truck drivers, but it could also be that, as Sergei Lavrov suggested earlier this month, the US has until now intentionally avoided hitting ISIS where it hurts in order to keep them in the game and ensure they can still be effective at destabilizing Assad. If you cut off the oil trade, they lose the ability to battle the regime.

Whatever the case, it's too late now, because just as Russian airstrikes and the Iranian ground presence forced the US to do something - anything - to prove to the world that America is serious about fighting terrorism, Moscow's targeting of ISIS oil convoys has forced the US to get on board (the Russians are going to hit them anyway, so there's no point in vacillating).

American airstrikes reportedly destroyed 116 oil tanker trucks earlier this month and another 280 today in Paris mastermind Abdelhamid Abaaoud's former fiefdom of Deir ez-Zor. 

Of course the US would hate to catch ISIS off guard risk killing innocent truck drivers, so prior to the November 16 strike, US planes dropped leaflets warning the drivers to "get out of your trucks now, and run away from them." Here's the leaflet (note the stick figures running for their lives):

Here's some commentary from Colonel Steve Warren from Operation Inherent Resolve (delivered at a press conference earlier this month): 

Early Sunday morning in Al-Bukamal, which is the southern blue circle number two, you see two blue circles there. They both represent Tidal Wave II operations, but we're in the southern one -- the one further towards the bottom of your screen, there.

 

In Al-Bukamal, we destroyed 116 tanker trucks, which we believe will reduce ISIL's ability to transport its stolen oil products.

 

This is our first strike against tanker trucks, and to minimize risks to civilians, we conducted a leaflet drop prior to the strike. We did a show of force, by -- we had aircraft essentially buzz the trucks at low altitude.

 

So, I do have copy of the leaflet, and I have got some videos, so why don't you pull the leaflet up. Let me take a look at it so I can talk about it.

 

As you can see, it's a fairly simple leaflet, it says, "Get out of your trucks now, and run away from them." A very simple message.

 

And then, also, "Warning: airstrikes are coming. Oil trucks will be destroyed. Get away from your oil trucks immediately. Do not risk your life."

 

And so, these are the leaflets that we dropped -- about 45 minutes before the airstrikes actually began.

And here's an amusing bit from the post-presser Q&A: 

Q: On Bob's question, too, if -- if it's so important to cut off the oil shipments, the critical revenue source for ISIS, why did it take so long to take out 116 oil tanker trucks?

 

COL. WARREN: No, that's a great question, Jim. Thanks for asking it.

 

So, a little history on Operation Tidal Wave II. Initially, we, you know, we have been striking oil infrastructure targets since the very beginning of this operation.

 

What we found out was that many of our strikes were only minimally effective. We would strike pieces of the oil infrastructure that were easily repaired.

 

When we came to that realization, we conducted some more study -- I think I talked about this last week, a little bit -- we conducted some more study, and determined how to better strike the oil infrastructure itself, different pieces of the system.

 

During the course of that study, we also determined that part of the illicit oil system, from the oil coming out of the ground at a -- at a pump head, to the end of that chain, which is the distribution network.

 

So, this is a decision that we had to make. We have not struck these trucks before. We assessed that these trucks, while although they are being used for operations that support ISIL, the truck drivers, themselves, probably not members of ISIL; they're probably just civilians. So we had to figure out a way around that. We're not in this business to kill civilians, we're in this business to stop ISIL -- to defeat ISIL.

So basically, it took the US 13 months to figure out that the best way to cripple Islamic State's oil trade was to bomb - the oil.

To the extent that occurred to anyone previously, the idea was dismissed because the truck drivers are "probably not members of ISIL." Well then who are they? Sure, they may not be suiting up in all black and firing RPGs at Toyota Corollas packed with "spies" for a propaganda video, but it's not like they don't know who they're working for.

Also, as mentioned above, the US hasn't exactly been shy about engaging targets even when there are women, children, and bedridden hospital patients in the vicinity so it's hard to imagine that anyone at the Pentagon was worried about Islamic State's truck drivers.

Whatever the case, the US is apprently set to give ISIS a 45 minute heads up when The Pentagon plans to bomb an oil convoy which we suppose makes sense.

It's the least the CIA can do for an old friend.

 

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Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:18 | 6828386 SillySalesmanQu...
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The leaflets should have said, "hide your trucks so we can't bomb them."

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:26 | 6828427 L Bean
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The subplot is implicit.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:20 | 6828394 dbystrowski
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Doctors without borders got ZERO minutes warning to get out of the Afgan hospital. 

hmmm, makes you think there's some type of conspiracy here, doesn't it?

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:21 | 6828402 HowdyDoody
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#ISISTruckDriverLivesMatter

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:20 | 6828397 Bill of Rights
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Hmm the only leaflet I saw was " Eat at Jihadi John's place "  children eat for free.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:21 | 6828399 Chuckster
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Jack Burton for prez!

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:22 | 6828404 SoDamnMad
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Where are the copies of the hospital warning cards we dropped on the Doctors Without Borders hospital?  I thought Predator drones only fired Hellfire missiles, you tell me they also drop leflets.

Get me a Nobel Prize application.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:22 | 6828407 Iam Yue2
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"So basically, it took the US 13 months to figure out that the best way to cripple Islamic State's oil trade was to bomb - the oil."

 

McKinsey or Bain?

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:30 | 6828438 Lostinfortwalton
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Intelligence showed most of the money was coming in through weekend garage sales; they had no idea about the oil.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 20:07 | 6829369 Refuse-Resist
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that's bazaar

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:25 | 6828419 L Bean
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Is this an Onion article?

I don't even know what to say anymore.

 

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:26 | 6828425 HowdyDoody
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A question* to the head of the US Treasury Terrorist Finance Tracking Department:

"How did you miss this one? Take your time to think about it. How come this was not investigated by your organisation?"

* artistic license claimed as it is a multipart question.

 

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:27 | 6828428 loregnum
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Man, it was crazy this morning when I came to the site and the front page was actually full of market/economic posts. Naturally, the day goes on and it becomes the whole isis/terrorism crap once again. Sigh...

As for this post, clearly isis isn't a cia controlled group. Just keep believing the U.S hates them and they hate the U.S. I mean, Stone Cold Steve Austin hated The Rock back in the day. They would say so on Monday nights.

All those evil "jihadis" hate the U.S which is why there have been zero "terrorist attcks" attributed to them in the U.S over the last 14 years. That's how you go and attack your sworn enemies you keep saying you want to crush in your hollywood created video clips and newsletters.

 

 

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:28 | 6828432 BeaverCream
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Did anyone ask the US...who's buying this fucking oil?

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:38 | 6828473 Volkodav
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Erdogan's Son controls the smuggling of stolen Syrian oil

 

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 18:41 | 6828946 WTFUD
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Tony Hayward, British Petroleum (BP) ex-ceo Gulf of Mexico disaster is Logistics Superintendent. With his lack of Public Relations skills they got him as far away from water as possible.

erDOGan's son i believe is only the bagman divvying up the ill-gotten loot among the vested interests, including Daesh Commanders.

Tue, 11/24/2015 - 00:20 | 6830233 FixItAgainTony
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It appears that the ZATO is actually going to perfect Monty Python's "Joke Warfare" because this is magnitudes more ridiculous than anything Shrub Jr. ever got us wedged into.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:29 | 6828437 seek
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There's a joke that ties in with this situation:

What's the difference between ISIS and a preschool? I don't know, man, I'm just the drone operator.

Darkly funny because it reflects the absolute absence of morality in prior US bombing campaigns.

So, to the question of:

"Well then who are they? Sure, they may not be suiting up in all black and firing RPGs at Toyota Corollas packed with "spies" for a propaganda video, but it's not like they don't know who they're working for."

The answer is:

ISIS shows up in your town, you're working as a truck driver to support your family. ISIS says you work for them now, as they point guns at your family. There you go. I don't have a lot of doubt that some or even a majority of the truck drivers are nominally innocent civilians trapped in a fucked up situation. So giving warning actually is plausible. What's bizarre about it is... they've never done that before.

My bet is that the warning has another motive that hasn't become clear. Perhaps it's a way of the US suppressing Russian air power by being in the area and giving ISIS a chance to hide the tankers, or something else, but I'm sure the motive here goes well beyond what's being discussed at the press conference.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 18:26 | 6828886 HowdyDoody
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Hiding stuff in the desert is a little tricky. Maybe they plan to put a call in to the Rita Katz Film production unit to see if they can spare a load of palm trees. Tankers hidden by palm trees. Yeah, that would work.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 21:10 | 6829622 BarnacleBill
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What's the difference between ISIS and a preschool?

I don't know, man, I'm just the drone operator.

Oh dear. Pretty sick. Sadly appropriate, though. I'll be passing it on.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:31 | 6828444 Truth Eater
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We don't want to kill truck drivers who are only working to support their families.  The problem with that, however, is that ISIS already killed hundreds of truck drivers that they consider weren't the right kind of muslims. 

 

Instead of hitting oil trucks, why don't we hit the clearly marked ISIS military targets?  (rhetorical question)

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:31 | 6828445 farflungstar
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AmeriKan clusterfuck. Coddling terrorists cause they may eventually, someday, not today, not really, overthrow Al-Assad once we get rid of all the Syrians who support him. 

The kindler, gentler ass fuck

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:34 | 6828455 Everybodys All ...
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Those in the military have to be wondering just what side this administration is on...

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:42 | 6828459 Volkodav
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 why didn't they drop leaflets those were droned tell get out of wedding clothes and run?

Tue, 11/24/2015 - 01:03 | 6830310 FixItAgainTony
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Because those dronings were ugly war crimes guaranteed to make the world rightly hate the USA.  That way, when WWIII is possible for all participants, the PR magic of being the cruel hegemon lets everybody know what enemy must be fought until all nations and all people's hopes for the future are destroyed.  Then, the unlucky survivors enter the next phase of this sad production called, The Chosen. 

Fyodor Dostoyevsky would have written this better.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:35 | 6828460 Icelandicsaga.....
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Col. Warren is either so compartmentalized he can not see the big picture, or he is a total complete waste of air toadie, who is a traitor to this country, along with his boss, and bosses in DC..hang him, Barry, the lot of them upside down and let the buzzards have them. """"""This is our first strike against tanker trucks, and to minimize risks to civilians, we conducted a leaflet drop prior to the strike. We did a show of force, by -- we had aircraft essentially buzz the trucks at low altitude."""  Fucking stupid mother fucking treacherous piece of shit. A slap in the face to this  country, which has now changed places with the evil empire......

 

 

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 21:18 | 6829651 BarnacleBill
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I'm sorry to have to tell you that outside the US it is already being regularly referred to as "the Evil Empire". The US's moral reputation is way lower than it ever was during the Vietnam invasion and occupation. If you go travelling outside the US, better carry a Canadian flag, and learn to say "oat and aboat".

(And, yes, I'm well aware that not all Americans approve of the evil, but it's a generality, that's all. You know how that happens.) 

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:37 | 6828471 joe90
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Hmmm "the drivers themselve, are probably not members of ISIS"  "Probably"  they know for sure that they aren't, why go to all the trouble? ..... so it's OK now to work for a terrorist organisation!  ... The warning note is predominately in English.  Lots of ex-service driving trucks in Iraq.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:42 | 6828486 PrimalScream
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I remember the First Gulf War.  Those were the days when the USA could hit real targets - and a whole lotta' targets -  in 1 week.

Tue, 11/24/2015 - 09:16 | 6831340 HowdyDoody
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Its not complicated. The Iraqis were the enemy. ISIS is an ally.

 

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:40 | 6828492 Zero-Hegemon
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"There has been too much violence. Too much pain. But I have an honorable compromise. Just walk away. Give me your pump, the oil, the gasoline, and the whole compound, and I'll spare your lives. Just walk away and we'll give you a safe passageway in the wastelands. Just walk away and there will be an end to the horror."

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:41 | 6828495 Zero-Hegemon
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Obama is the JV team

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:41 | 6828496 SharkBit
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I can see it coming now.  Blow back against the USSA in a big, big way. 

Why, because as Putin, Iran et. al. have explained, you just can't trust the Americans.  Just ask the Native Americans.  Sad, sad, sad.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:42 | 6828497 WTFUD
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The same bastards did not give the victims of 9/11 45 minutes notice.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:57 | 6828559 AlaricGaudiTheSecond
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Oh! They did. No jew CEOS In any WTC Building on 9-11.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 19:00 | 6829034 Herd Redirectio...
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Zionist Israelis esp. were given a heads up.  With a Hebrew text messaging service, if memory serves...

I heard Larry Silverstein used to go have breakfast up in the WTC every Tuesday with his daughter... But not on 9/11...  There was a 'podiatrist' appointment.

Tue, 11/24/2015 - 02:37 | 6830451 Otrader
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The very first people arrested on suspicion of involvement in the 9/11 attacks turned out to be five Israeli Jews: Sivan Kurzberg, Paul Kurzberg (Sivan's brother), Oded Ellner, Yaron Shmuel and Omer Marmari. Their white Urban Moving Systems van was stopped and they were arrested within hours of the attacks, on the afternoon of 9/11/01. Sivan Kurzberg, Ellner and Shmuel had been observed by several eyewitnesses at the rear parking lot of the Doric apartment complex in Union City, New Jersey. They were seen atop the van with cameras, high-fiving, smiling, joking with cries of joy and mockery, hugging each other, and taking photographs and video of the Twin Towers within a few minutes of the first plane impact.

In fact, they were seen filming atop the van before the local news radio station 1010 WINS had even broken the news of the first plane crash. The station actually had one of its sales team account executives on her cell phone to its newsroom before the first plane crashed after she noticed it was too low and was going to crash, and so were quickly able to patch her on air to provide a live report. When seen, Ellner was kneeling at the back of the van facing New York City with his camera and Kurzberg and Shmuel were facing him. After their film was developed and processed by the FBI, the photographs depicted all three Israelis visibly smiling. In one photo, Kurzberg could be seen flicking a lighter like he was at a rock concert as the North Tower burned in the background. This jovial celebration was taking place before the second impact, when innocent bystanders believed the incident was merely a tragic accident.

When arrested, the Israelis - dubbed the "High-Fivers" by the FBI - were found to have airline tickets with immediate travel dates for destinations world-wide, and tie-ins to 9/11.

Tue, 11/24/2015 - 04:54 | 6830579 danepol
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Only Otrader the anti-semite knows this. Thanks. Idiot.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 23:00 | 6830004 Crush the cube
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Nicely coded once again.  Why 116, because when you flip it you get 911, and it had to be 45 minutes, that how you get the 9 hiden in the story.  No one mentioned the place is important because of it location, strattled right on the Euphrates as a gateway.  Oh, than they throw in the 13 months, flip that one and you get their god El who is 911.  Like someone actually went out and accounted for exactly 116 trucks, my ass, your busted coding again. 

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:42 | 6828499 luckylogger
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http://www.zerohedge.com/users/loregnum

Best comment in a year 100000k thumbs up!

 

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:43 | 6828504 L Bean
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US takes care of their death squads. If and when they're done with the job, they retire to the US to work in the "private sector".

It's just business.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:49 | 6828527 Berspankme
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To: Our friends at Isis

From: Peace Prize

We have recently discovered all the oil trucks are equipped with GM ignition switches. You should leave them immediately so we can destroy any evidence of our incompetence. Thanks for your efforts.

 

PS: Watch out for those Russian bastards

 

Xoxo, Barry

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:50 | 6828533 skippy9
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POTUS values Muslim slime lives more than those of us Americans because he is a Muslim plant.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 17:09 | 6828616 Caleb Abell
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POTUS

 

Piece Of Traitorous Undesirable Shit

Tue, 11/24/2015 - 02:34 | 6830449 Otrader
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Muslim plant surrounded by jew bankers and foreign policy advisors telling him to kill another 4 million muslims.  Get a fuckn clue!

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:51 | 6828534 American Psycho
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Did anyone else laugh out loud when they read, "Sure, they may not be suiting up in all black and firing RPGs at Toyota Corollas packed with "spies" for a propaganda video?"

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:52 | 6828539 U4 eee aaa
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I thought aiding enemies of America was treason?

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 16:55 | 6828546 TalkToLind
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If any of us bitchez gave out clues 45 minutes before taking a major action, it would be call insider trading and we'd be prosecuted.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 17:01 | 6828581 Fiscal.Enema
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The back side of the note read "please come to Europe and recieve dual citizenship and teach those nasty Euro woman a lesson. Bring along your AK and suicide vests for self protection from dirty infidel europeans. men of fighting age only". signed...

 "your loving comrade in arms, Barry". 

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 17:03 | 6828592 adonisdemilo
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TREASON, nothing less.

If that isn't proof of which side the US  is on I'm Queen Victoria.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 17:04 | 6828593 tsuki
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From the Russian photos, I did not see even a camel around those parked trucks, much less a hospital or wedding party.  I wonder how much that litter cost the US taxpayer.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 17:06 | 6828600 Caleb Abell
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It makes sense.  The US spent a fortune training ISIS, so why would they want to turn around and kill their own employees?

Oh right, I almost forgot that the drivers are "innocent civilians" who had no idea who owned the oil.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 17:07 | 6828608 Gregory Poonsores
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Meanwhile they're still bombing weddings in Pakistan and Yemen without warning.

When did they get all conscience like when it comes to a bunch of guys aiding the money flow to terrorists. Sorry their terrorists.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 17:08 | 6828609 rejected
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The stick men appear to be dressed in black and carrying weapons.

The message is in English? Bilingual terrorists,,, that's cool.

It's embarrassing to be an ameriKan these days.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 17:08 | 6828610 Bernard_2011
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As a sidenote---but a very important one, it should be noted that it is the European Union itself that lifted an oil embargo on Syria in 2013 in order to support the Syrian opposition in trying to overthrow Assad.

 

EUROPE HAS BEEN HELPING FINANCE ISIS (THRU BUYING THEIR OIL)!

 

Please read this BBC News article for yourself (dated April 22, 2013):

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-22254996

 

So when we look at who to blame for the rise of ISIS, look no further than Hollande, Merkel, Cameron and Obama.

 

When are all these leaders going to be held accountable for this atrocious outcome and questioned on it by the media?

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 18:35 | 6828917 alphahammer
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Dude, Syria buys oil fromn ISIS right now! The worst part? Because Syria has no economy / money, the Russian taxpayer is actually buying oil from ISIS to give to Assad. Russia is backing up Syria econmically -- which means the Russian taxpayer -- which means they are paying ISIS for the oil!

Completely batshit crazy...

 

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 17:09 | 6828617 CaptainMoonlight
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I'm preeeeety sure we can hang that fking traitor BO now.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 17:15 | 6828638 Jstanley011
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Go git 'im, tigerrr....

Tue, 11/24/2015 - 02:32 | 6830448 Otrader
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Go git 'im, tigerrr....

oooh, game just started! Hotttt Pockets!

 

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 17:15 | 6828634 Fuku Ben
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Optimal Targets for Destruction
Hospitals
Wedding Parties
Civilians
U.S. Citizens without due process
Sovereign nations

Safe Zones
College Campuses
Terrorists Support Personnel
Terrorist Supply Chain
Terrorist Money Laundering and Funding Sources
Terrorist Oil Refineries

It makes perfect sense in a world where everything is upside down and backwards.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 17:20 | 6828647 Jstanley011
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Obama bombed Doctors Without Borders, killed eighteen of the doctors and other volunteers. Had anyone but the Magic Negro done it, the story would still be front page with demands for heads to roll. But in this case you see, it has already vanished down the mammary hole. That's what makes him "magic"!

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 18:00 | 6828797 Unix
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The Teflon Tarbaby...

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 18:32 | 6828910 alphahammer
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You forgot the Syrian operational theater per the Russian battle manual.

Optimal Targets for Destruction

Iranian Generals

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 17:18 | 6828640 Hannibal
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"Warning"..the enemy terrorists they are gonna get hit, that's aiding and abetting.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 17:17 | 6828642 Able Ape
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What if ISIS paints "Olive Oil" on the tops of the trucks? ...Ruh, ro...

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 17:54 | 6828778 Truth Eater
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ISIS has cleverly desguised their vehicles to look like Amerikan Hummv's and Saudi-purchased Toyota trucks.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 18:00 | 6828800 northern vigor
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I don't know if ISIS ever watched Popeye and knows who Olive Oil is?

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 18:30 | 6828904 alphahammer
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Yea because barren desert produces a bunch of olive oil...

You wouldn't be an ISIS strategic planner would you now?

Look up those idiots and the latest hilarity involving "red mercury". Once you read that, you can actually see how they might paint olive oil on the top of their trucks...

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 17:23 | 6828657 RhoneGSM
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Gee. Wait till the Pentagon figures out that if your job driving an oil tanker is "right sized" you will be offered someting in the infantry or suicide truck division...

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 17:23 | 6828659 Duc888
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So I guess now anyone caught buying ISIS oil can now have charges brought against them for supporting / aiding terrorists?

 

How about the oil companies?  Traders?  The banks that laundered the money?

 

 

....crickets... crickets...

 

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 17:29 | 6828673 Sudden Debt
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More probably, the truck drivers where Americans.

 

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 17:32 | 6828690 jacship
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We r Fuked

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 17:44 | 6828705 dearth vader
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>> So basically, it took the US 13 months to figure out that the best way to cripple Islamic State's oil trade was to bomb - the oil. <<

Only 13 months? That sounds not too bad. Though, to be honest, the Russians had them open their eyes to this shocking revelation.

And after so many years, in Afghanistan, they still don't - or won't - see that the way to crush the Taleban is not by bombing and droning, but by killing the opium trade. From the start they had the chance to burn down the poppy fields, but pity stayed their hand. Yes, pity indeed, for all those poor, little poppy growers who would have been put out of business, or so they said.

Follow the money. In Syria it's oil, in Stan it's opium, heroin. No need for killing so many people. Eradicate the trade and it's over. There must be major interests involved that can keep the military from coming to this insight and follow up on it.

Recently, ZH had an article on the opium harvest in Stan. This year's has never been bigger.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 17:56 | 6828782 Truth Eater
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Oh, we bombed the oil before-  Assad's oil.  We wouldn't touch ISIS because they are our agents.  Win-win-win.....  for Israel, Saud, Turkey.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 17:58 | 6828792 Unix
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Putin forced Obozo's hand didn't he...I will give him that much credit. I may have to rethink my position on this thing.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 17:50 | 6828765 orangegeek
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Keep the trucks.  Bomb the driver (and his family).

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 18:06 | 6828780 Lumberjack
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To whom this may concern, in accordance with your claims, they (ISIS, it's affiliates, heirs and assigns or those claiming to be affiliated et.al.) don't warn about their various mis-deeds. Therefore, any ISIS member or anyone giving them support directly or indirectly, who is in their employ, directly or indirectly, will without question when certain property or personal space is approached, breached or airspace violated, or any type of intel gathering be it electronic, HUMINT or any other type of intelligence gathering for ANY REASON will be shot on sight (or suffer a fatal capacitor induced electrocution). (Sarcasm)

 

You keep news media busy attempting to tell us how bad they are but then again, you give them warning, money and arms? 

 

What a bunch of pussies... 

 

Long Putin.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 17:56 | 6828783 Unix
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Nice, do we have any vids showing then running yet? They will be doing the richard pryor immitations in 3....2....1

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 17:57 | 6828786 northern vigor
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Just wondering? You guys seem very good sports about it. During WW1, General Aurtur Currie questioned his artillery why they never bombed the German artillery...only the infantry? He wondered if they were all Free Mason brothers?

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 18:00 | 6828796 CAPT DRAKE
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Does anybody know what the going price per barrel is for ISIS oil?   Lets do the math.  We can calculate how long until a humanitarian disaster as the people in the Califate begin to starve to death.  Normally I couldn't give a fuck, but most of these are trulely inocent people caught up in a shit storm not of their making.    

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 18:02 | 6828802 wizteknet
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Sure why the hell not... Bored need to use these toys for some good use anywho...

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 18:08 | 6828820 Wahooo
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I would not be surprised to see ISIS gas stations popping up around the US in the years ahead. Not surprised one bit.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 18:13 | 6828834 css1971
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That is a fucking brilliant idea. There's no such thing as bad publicity.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 18:33 | 6828912 HowdyDoody
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The first one will be near the entrance to Langley.

 

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 18:08 | 6828822 pupdog1
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Did the concert-goers in Paris get leaflets that said Get out! In 45 minutes we are going to bomb the theater!

No, they did not.

I'm sure it is obvious to our air crews that these raghead jihadi truckers will be back at it tomorrow.

The ghetto organizer-in-chief next plans to airdrop free airline tickets to major American cities.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 18:42 | 6828948 goldinpenguin
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did the theater goers in Moscow get warning before the Chechens drooped in?

Tue, 11/24/2015 - 02:29 | 6830443 Otrader
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I'm sure it is obvious to our air crews that these raghead jihadi truckers will be back at it tomorrow.

Contractor screening/hiring is difficult.  Why get rid of good help and waste USA taxpayer money?

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 18:14 | 6828843 directaction
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I wonder, are the Russians are offering such kind, helpful warnings? 

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 18:33 | 6828913 Anopheles
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Yes, the Russians give them warnings, but only a few minutes, not 45 minutes. 

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 18:35 | 6828918 HowdyDoody
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Each Russian bomb has a warning leaflet in Arabic and English saying

"If you can read this you are too close".

 

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 19:21 | 6829137 Lumberjack
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Correction.. "were too close".

Tue, 11/24/2015 - 09:18 | 6831355 HowdyDoody
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That's on the back.

 

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 18:17 | 6828852 robertocarlos
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What if you can't read?

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 18:22 | 6828866 Gringo Viejo
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What part of OBAMA IS A MUSLIM is hard to grasp?

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 18:50 | 6828981 cordial savage
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Where's your proof?  You got it sitting in a vault with a yeti carcass and the map to Atlantis?

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 19:31 | 6829188 alphahammer
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All of it. 

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 18:24 | 6828877 Joebloinvestor
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I feel like I am living in a Latin American Hellhole being spoon fed BULLSHIT.

 

 

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 18:27 | 6828891 alphahammer
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"So basically, it took the US 13 months to figure out that the best way to cripple Islamic State's oil trade was to bomb - the oil."

 

Didn't dude read his own article? 

We HAVE bombed the shit out of oil INFRASTRUCTURE. But as the article says, they just keep repairing it.

How this author can say it took "13months to figure out  to bomb the oil" when we were actually bombing their oil -- makes about as much sense as ... well ... Putin "bombing cough cough ISIS"

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 18:38 | 6828926 cordial savage
Mon, 11/23/2015 - 18:41 | 6828945 Chuckster
Mon, 11/23/2015 - 18:43 | 6828953 marcusfenix
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"So we had to figure out a way around that. We're not in this business to kill civilians, we're in this business to stop ISIL -- to defeat ISIL."

W.T.F?

I don't even know where to start, how did this asshole say this with a straight face or without spontaneously bursting into flame for that matter? 

civilians? seriously? these drivers knew, beyond a reasonable doubt who they were hauling oil for. and halving that knowledge they willingly, knowingly and openly were aiding ISIS directly and therefor ASSUMED ALL THE RISKS INHERENT WITH THAT CAREER CHOICE. including getting bombed by their bosses enemies.

and even if you wanted to make the argument that some or many of these drivers were "forced" to haul for ISIS (which seems dubious to me personally) either by direct threat or lack of other options, isn't it funny how the Russians managed to find a work around in short order.

they waited until the trucks were parked and then bombed them. thus minimizing, as much as possible, the chances the drivers were actually in them...

no need for a 45 minute escape window and it didn't take them 13 frigging months to figure it out!

BTW yes you are in the business of killing civilians and the examples of this fact are endless. why you felt the need to further insult pretty much everybody's intelligence with this lie right after INTENTIONALLY bombing a doctors w/o borders hospital and then coming back and running what was left of it over with a tank speaks to your arrogance and general psychopathy.

I really do wonder, do these assholes really believe their own bullshit?  

the absurdity just never stops... 

 

 

 

 

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 19:30 | 6829180 alphahammer
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Yea the absurdity never stops...

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Russia released video of their warplanes destroying over 500 ISIS petrol tankers smuggling oil from Syria to Iraq. The footage above reveals ISIS’ “pipelines on wheels,” or their fuel tanker trucks being targeted and blown up by bombs dropped from Russian planes.

"In just the first few days, our aviation has destroyed 500 fuel tanker trucks, which greatly reduced illegal oil export capabilities of the militants and, accordingly, their income from oil smuggling," said Colonel-General Andrey Kartapolov.

 

It was also reported that leaflets were dropped before the bombings in order to minimize the risks to civilian drivers. The leaflets read: "Warning: Airstrikes are coming. Get away from your oil trucks immediately."

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 21:07 | 6829608 Rock On Roger
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Risible

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 18:45 | 6828959 Jim Leyritz
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We used to call this Sedition in the old days.

It's called multi-culturalism by traitors.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 18:54 | 6829000 lakecity55
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What a pile of horse hockey.

Who even believes this crap? CNN viewers? Can't be more than 10 of them. Maybe Fox viewers, "Fox-Fair and Unbalanced."

 

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 18:57 | 6829017 spyware-free
Mon, 11/23/2015 - 18:59 | 6829032 Yen Cross
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   It's nice to see the CIA dipshits have a trade, that doesn't involve total global domination/distruction. {driving crude tankers}

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 19:00 | 6829038 Jack Oliver
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Too FUCKING funny - Russia forces the US to DESTROY it's OWN assets - You couldn't SCRIPT this SHIT !

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 19:25 | 6829154 Lumberjack
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Get rid of the evidence. Problem is there is too much of it it and they need some serious distractions.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 19:02 | 6829040 Able Ape
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A 45 minute warning for ISIS?  That's 45 minutes longer than the warning JFK got...

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 19:02 | 6829047 yogibear
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Barry wants to save his ISIS brothers so they can immigate to the US an vote for his party.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 19:03 | 6829049 highwaytoserfdom
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Hey do we have to pay for the carbon taxes and the bombs and the planes and pensions and flyers and the politicians graft for  putting the Crisis in Isis? 

I'm going back to sleep..      Whats that about dreams of  sheep falling off cliff?

Falling in a dream is a red flag from your subconscious that something in your life — finances, a relationship, career, etc. — is rapidly going in the wrong direction. It means it is time to redirect the situation immediately! Falling dreams are also common for people who suffer from depression.

 

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 19:05 | 6829061 Itsthetiming
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The single reason the government insists of using the words isil and is instead of Islam radicals is because they are funding Islamic radicals.

Maybe not for a few years but when they finally do obtain a low yield weapon and use it, the wisdom of ever having used them to fight proxy wars will seem not only insane but beyond criminal.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 19:09 | 6829079 scaleindependent
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You know what is interesting?

That after a quick perusal of the posts to this note, I did not find any posts from the usual trolls, teh finn, yommuki, that idiotic chimp,etc. etc.  

I wonder why, but I have an idea.

The fact that the US is warning fucking ISIS to save their fucking lives is so preposterous that there is no way any propaganda can save it and the best they can do is to ignore the subject altogether.  They must reason, the faster this goes into the archives the better.

Oh the shame. 

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 19:40 | 6829228 smacker
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"That after a quick perusal of the posts to this note, I did not find any posts from the usual trolls, teh finn, yommuki, that idiotic chimp,etc."

Yeahbut, "alphahammer" is on shift. When he's out yommuti goes off shift.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 19:50 | 6829277 alphahammer
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Yea sure... We work 12hr shifts 7 days per week and we are paid in potatoes and Bulgarian porn...

BTW. Did you hear? The Russians also dropped warning leaflets before they bombed the oil trucks.

Oh my...

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 20:01 | 6829337 smacker
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"We work 12hr shifts 7 days per week and we are paid in potatoes and Bulgarian porn..."

Thanks. I was wondering what you were paid. If the potatoes are Latvian, they'll all have blight.

ha-ha

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 23:31 | 6830107 scaleindependent
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Since he does not give us supporting links then we must consider that he is making this up and thus we should not feed the troll.

Tue, 11/24/2015 - 00:41 | 6830275 FixItAgainTony
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Though you have good advice, prevailing sentiment could be Anonymous User is part of the their cadre and his pornster links are the supporting docs. 

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 20:38 | 6829502 Pliskin
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'We work 12hr shifts 7 days per week and we are paid in potatoes and Bulgarian porn'

I don't believe for one minute, even your handlers, waste porn on a couple of fucktard, limpdick, mongs like you and Yomutti.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 21:15 | 6829640 alphahammer
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Hey Snake, I bet your buddies comment on how you look in those leather pants. I bet they give you plenty of likes and UP votes know what I'm saying?

BBBBWWAAAAHHHAAAA!!!!!!!!

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 23:39 | 6830133 bid the soldier...
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Only another cretinous moron knows what you're saying.

It's the secret handshake of cro magnon mouth breathers like you and yomutti.

Did you ever get rid of the crabs you got from him?

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 23:32 | 6830113 scaleindependent
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Please give us links to support your statement. 

Since you have not, then you are a liar worthy of being put on ignore.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 23:33 | 6830117 bid the soldier...
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Seeing the Russians bombed first

The Russians also dropped warning leaflets

So the US dropped leaflets to imitate the Russkis.


US is COPY CATSKIS

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 19:20 | 6829125 mouthbreather
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Interestingly enough, they did the same thing in Nam, dropping leaflets from Hueys warning the VC before an artillery barrage.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 21:27 | 6829684 My Days Are Get...
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That is a lie.  Since I was involved in leaflet drops in Vietnam for 9 months, I know what happened.  As we were bombing the piss out of reinforced positions, I was in a chopper dropping leaflets, which basically said "Chieu Hoi" - surrender and you will not be killed.

When I read this article, I first thought that the leaflets were printed and dropped by the Russians.  But, when our military pre-announces its intentions, then everyone knows that no one is fighting an enemy.  This is a farce.  As I have previously written, the US military is totally overrated.  Our military is not capable of defeating a conventional army.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 19:22 | 6829139 I Write Code
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So we warned them.

Did they run?

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 19:26 | 6829163 Lumberjack
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The Russians followed a trail of discarded white Nike sneakers. 

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 19:55 | 6829307 mouthbreather
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Yes they ran, after my brother risked his life to plot the targets they vacated.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 19:27 | 6829167 alphahammer
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BBBBWWWAAAAAAHHHAAA!!!!!

All the trolls trying to say that because the US warned the trucks/ISIS so that means something... anything...  are complete morons.

Russia warned the truck drivers too.

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Russia released video of their warplanes destroying over 500 ISIS petrol tankers smuggling oil from Syria to Iraq. The footage above reveals ISIS’ “pipelines on wheels,” or their fuel tanker trucks being targeted and blown up by bombs dropped from Russian planes.

"In just the first few days, our aviation has destroyed 500 fuel tanker trucks, which greatly reduced illegal oil export capabilities of the militants and, accordingly, their income from oil smuggling," said Colonel-General Andrey Kartapolov.

It was also reported that leaflets were dropped before the bombings in order to minimize the risks to civilian drivers. The leaflets read: "Warning: Airstrikes are coming. Get away from your oil trucks immediately."

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 21:19 | 6829658 Rock On Roger
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Ya

Scroll to the end of this RT link to see the "leaflets" the Russians dropped.

https://www.rt.com/news/323065-syria-airstrikes-terrorists-russia/

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 23:29 | 6830102 scaleindependent
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Come on, links please.

No links, therefore you lie. 

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 19:28 | 6829169 Who was that ma...
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Hey I know that guy running away from the left hand oil truck, he's a driver for UPS right here in town.  Must be picking up a little spare coin driving for ISIL on the weekends.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 19:36 | 6829206 BustainMovealota
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All for show..  I'm willing to bet there was no oil in those tankers, and the tankers were probably not functional,  anyway.

Telling your enemy your plan would be aiding and abetting, would it not?  I want to see charges of treason filed against somebody.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 19:53 | 6829296 alphahammer
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Meanwhile the bungling Russians bombed non existant trucks full of air. Kinda like your head.

For once I'm saying go Putin! BTW. They also warned the drivers with leaflets before they bombed the oil trucks.

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Russia released video of their warplanes destroying over 500 ISIS petrol tankers smuggling oil from Syria to Iraq. The footage above reveals ISIS’ “pipelines on wheels,” or their fuel tanker trucks being targeted and blown up by bombs dropped from Russian planes.

"In just the first few days, our aviation has destroyed 500 fuel tanker trucks, which greatly reduced illegal oil export capabilities of the militants and, accordingly, their income from oil smuggling," said Colonel-General Andrey Kartapolov.

It was also reported that leaflets were dropped before the bombings in order to minimize the risks to civilian drivers. The leaflets read: "Warning: Airstrikes are coming. Get away from your oil trucks immediately."

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 23:29 | 6830097 scaleindependent
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No links.

Why?

Cause you a liar!

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 23:29 | 6830099 scaleindependent
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No links.

Why?

Cause you a liar!

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 19:35 | 6829208 smacker
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I hear that all wedding invitations in that region will include a warning that "you might be droned by oboladrones". And all hospital medics and inpatients will be given weekly warnings that they might be bombed.

 

Nice to see the Pantygon is taking care to avoid collateral damage.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 19:42 | 6829244 CitizenPete
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Your either with us or the terrorists. Or you have a CDL and work for the terrorists (a.k.a. Drivers for ZOG)

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 19:45 | 6829256 sidiji
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so now we know, Obama is a wahabist Sunni muslim..isnt aiding and abettin the terrorist enemy during time of war = TREASON?

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 19:45 | 6829259 samsara
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Operation Incoherent Resolve

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 19:52 | 6829285 Joe Tierney
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ISIS Trucker Blues

 

I'm juss'a croood-hauling Jihadi dude,

  juss tryin' to earn me my food. Juss my food, juss my own food.

 

But now it's a-rainin' down pamphlets

  all over our jee-hadi hamlets. Oh lordy!

 

So the 'Mercans say they're gonna fry my ride

  and I should run and hide,

     oh yeah, oh yeah, Allah he done cried when he heard it.

 

Oh mamma! If it weren't for bad Jee-hadi juju,

  I'd have no juju a'tall...

 

(they're gonna take that burned-out ride outta my paycheck. WhuttamIgonna do now? Oh mamma, when it rains it pours..)

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 20:07 | 6829367 HoserF16
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Obviously, CIA trained assets are embedded with ISIS.

Tue, 11/24/2015 - 04:53 | 6830575 dreadnaught
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old news!

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 20:07 | 6829368 CHoward
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This isn't a war, this is pure bullshit.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 20:08 | 6829375 HoserF16
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Russia just needs to keep bombing the fuck out of ISIS and tell the US State Dept. to fuck themselves. Twice on Sunday...

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 20:26 | 6829463 alphahammer
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"Russia just needs to keep bombing the fuck out of ISIS"

Ok, but they'd need to start first...

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