US Vaporizes "Millions" In Cash, Kills 7 Civilians In "Unusual" Strike On ISIS "Bank"
Back in June of 2014, ISIS - which at the time hadn’t yet rampaged its way into the world’s collective consciousness - took over Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city and home to more than 2 million people.
When the city fell, it became immediately apparent that the group was quite serious about its stated goal of creating a medieval caliphate and bringing Sharia Law to the entire region.
The victory wasn’t purely symbolic. ISIS fighters captured 2,300 Humvees parked in the city and looted more than $400 million from Mosul’s central bank.
Just like that, the brainchild of Abu-Mus'ab al-Zarqawi that grew in post-invasion Iraq and garnered support from regional Sunni benefactors once it began to operate in Syria, was the richest, most well-armed terror group on the planet.
So in the short space of a decade, the US managed to take a largely stable (if autocratic) state and turn it into a smoldering wasteland partially occupied by a brazen group of terrorist desert bandits who Washington and its regional allies were simultaneously using to destabilize neighboring Syria.
Now, two years since the fall of Mosul and five years since the start of Syria’s bloody conflict, the US has come full circle. Washington allowed an al-Qaeda offshoot to grow and prosper in hopes of destabilizing the government in Damascus only to end up fighting the very same group years later in the most hilariously absurd example of blowback the world has ever witnessed.
In the latest boondoggle being pitched by the media as a “win” in the fight against ISIS, a US airstrike destroyed an Islamic State "money center" in Mosul this week.
“We hit a cash storage facility. We have hit one or two previously,” an unnamed official told Newsweek. “Not sure how much dollars but estimate in the millions,” he added.
“The bulk cash distribution site was used by [ISIS] to distribute money to fund terrorist activities,” Lieutenant Commander Ben Tisdale, said in a statement.
“We estimate in the millions of dollars ... from all their illicit stuff: oil, looting, extortion,” Tisdale said.
CNN called the strike “extremely unusual” for the apparent blatant disregard shown for civilians. Two 2,000-pound bombs were dropped on the building in central Mosul. “US commanders had been willing to consider up to 50 civilian casualties from the airstrike due to the importance of the target,” CNN said. “But the initial post-attack assessment indicated that perhaps five to seven people were killed.”
"Only" five to seven innocent Iraqis killed. No big deal apparently. It could have been 50.
Here’s a video of the aftermath:
So let’s just recount the ridiculous chain of events that led directly to this strike and countless others.
During the Soviet-Afghan war, the US armed and funded the fighters who would eventually grow into al-Qaeda. Years later, al-Qaeda attacked the US and so the US went to the same country where Washington used to support the fighters to kill them. The US then invaded Iraq, creating the conditions for al-Qaeda to thrive there. Al-Qaeda in Iraq became ISIS and thanks to the fact that the US decimated the Iraqi military, the group was able to take Mosul and steal $400 million. Two years later, the US bombs Mosul and destroys the money.
There you have it America: your taxpayer dollars hard at work in a never-ending cycle of foreign policy blunders.
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That's ok ISIS. Mr Yellen will print some more.
Banker's confetti filled the air...
We killed some loot....and some civilians. But it's OK because it's US(A), the closed thing to GOD man ever created.
Since Yellen will not retire some outstanding cash, we sent some bombs to do it for her. Expect a surge in the USD tomorrow you know, supply and demand.
"We SAID BUY US TREASURIES... But no...."
Deflation!!!
....Bytchez!!!
Poor aiming. They actually meant to hit the Chinese Embassy....again.
Nato bombed Chinese deliberatelyhttp://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/oct/17/balkans
more like distroying evidence.
Crazy... I mean like, so many positive waves... maybe we can't lose, you're on!
I’ve got new coordinates for the next strike:
38 deg 55 min 35.10 sec N, 77 deg 02 min 44.74 sec W
They won’t vaporize much cash, but if they time it right, they can splash a bunch of financial terrorists.
I remember that! Wasn't that on Clinton's watch? It made a big splash on the news, then suddenly hushed. Since that time, I've wondered if that's why China was actually GIVEN much really sensitive shit. They with the Russians and Indians now have most of the gold. When America is drained dry, watch the price go really ape!
That trick wouldn't have worked in a cashless society. Feds, careful what you wish for ;-)
Who would have thought that the first shot of the War On Cash would be fired in Mosul ??
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Preview of the great unwind....Create an environment where there are a lot of terrorists and when they get their hands on USD, vaporize it! Poof! They're going to need a lot more rich terrorists to make this work.....Oh wait....redefine terrorist as anyone with more cash "than they need". Easy Peasy...
That's what they get for not joining the Federal Reserve System....
"city and looted more than $400 million"
you know...if we weren't using FIAT this wouldn't even be physically possible.
you know....if we weren't using FIAT, the entire world drug trade would also grind to a screeching halt.
you know, if we weren't using credit invented debt/fiat...the entire US debt would never have passed $1 Trillion, Greece, and Venezuela, and Brazil, and Turkey, and Cypress, and Indonesia, and England, etc...would hever have had currency crisis, and we wouldn't have financial bubbles of any kind. (the tulip mania...perhaps that was unavoidable.)
I'm surprised at how little damage two 2-thousand pound bombs actually did. Another lie-filled story?
I think they are reffering to the cost in pounds sterling.
Re “We hit a cash storage facility...", “The bulk cash distribution site was used by [ISIS] to distribute money ...”:
Lemme try two guesses:
1. They blew up an ATM.
2. They blew something up. Surely there was an ATM in there somewhere...
And two hours before a leaflet: "Go to the bank and bring your money out of harm´s way."
"The Deflation, The Deflation"
"Get the margarine".
Don't worry. FDIC should have this covered.
It's a dirty job but somebody's got to do it.
Bullish for money velocity.
But they cannot vaporize ISIS?
If you are not a 'DHIMMI' you may be interested in this ......
http://beforeitsnews.com/global-unrest/2016/01/the-lion-is-it-time-to-fi...
STFU, its not Muslims who are bombing America, it is we who are bombing them.
What illness makes people divorce themselves form reality?
Seriously, have you not heard of Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya, Egypt, and on and on. How many states have Muslims taken out, hmmm, maybe start with the idiots in texas.
You idiots are absolutely insane, you are devoid of any concept of cause and effect.
they suffer from zionazi disease.
you have zero sense of history...though will agree, u.s. is entirely to blame for that 20 years of instability.
before that you need to pull your head out of ass....as if...as if those barbarians are any better than the neocons. they'd gladly nuke texas, the entire west and especially (and gratefully)...YOUR dumb ass.
"zero sense of history"
"20 years"
Oh the irony.
We can't be wrong because 'MURICA!!! FUCK YEAH!!!
I am really curious how much that "other web site" pays you to advertise for them several times in every article here at Zero Hedge? Really, please tell us how much you make doing that.
So ISIS finally commited the cardinal sin. Keeping money outside the banking system is deeply frowned upon...
I wonder if they'll eventually bust up ISIS for tax evasion. That's how they got Capone you know...
That's how they (I) got Capone you know...
You're Welcome.
Ness.
The money and gold were stolen before the bank was bombed. Rummy at work.
Here we have the us federal reserve taking "unorthodox monetary policy" to a new level in order to reduce m2.
How does the Pentagon expect ISIS to pay it back if it goes and blows up all the money Washington gave them?
Hmmm...traceble back to Hillary and the white house was ot?
The next phase of the war on cash. Bomb banks.
Weddings
Funerals
Hospitals
Banks...
Is there anything left to bomb?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-08/war-cash-advancing-all-fronts-f...
Jon Corzine snorts. "Amateurs"
H. Perowne, you might be on to something. Let's send Corzine over to help them with thier investments......
The CIA vaporized it after they looted the gold.
Leave the fiat. Take the Gold.
~ NYFED Chairman Clemenza.
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Delete original post. Then delete account.
Then delete self jumping from bridge span over water cold and icy, swift current, at night...
Lol shit just stays interesting. Gun makers and ISIS are evidently recession proof.
Excellent, you've just caused dozens more youth to swear eternal revenge against the west after you killed their innocent parents, grandparents, friends, wives, brothers, and sisters.
Of course, this is exactly what the powers that be want. There is alot of money to be made in endless wars killing civilians.
"Where's my 'open new account' free toaster?"
"It's on it's way."
Sorry, free toaster is not. Perhaps interest you in al Qaiderman beach towel?