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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Free toaster is an AK in this part of the world.
Shooting with a silver bomb at a silver/gold ISIS bank.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-claims-to-mint-...
You see, silver and gold have value, aldo a paper bomb will have a bigger (global) impact.
This is a bank robbery.
Print and burn, print and burn. The only problme I see is it might trigger more global warmiing.
Check the serial numbers. Maybe it's Rumsfeld's lost money.
Likely America was just burning the evidence of US/Israeli financial support for ISIS. Just like building 7...
So i thought from ZH reporting that only the Ruskies were doing real damage. Would ZH lie?
Russia bombs weapon cashes and factories, US bombs ..a cash storage, maybe for destroying some evidence about transactions how the fuck got that money its way to Iraq and Syria.
Who has ever won a war by bombing banks that store fiat shit paper money and ignoring the enemy's infantry or logistic routes?
Whine on, son.
They bomb so it can't be traced to its source -OR- so Quds doesn't find it and use it accordingly.
We will son. If you think that money is "shit paper" then maybe you can ask ISIS what they plan to buy weapons and drugs with? Their suppliers don't take Rubles...
And yes -- ISIS are major fucking drug addicts. Everything from coke to crystal meth. One of their favorites is injectable adrenaline. They shoot up during battle and can still fight with 600 hundreds bullet holes in them -- well, for at least 3-4 seconds...
Isn't it technically illegal to destroy Fed Reserve notes?
yes, unless you are destroying them through inflation.
ZING!!!
War on physical cash. They'll just replace it with IOU's and ones and zero's.
I remember hearing how the US sent billions of dollars (tax payer's money) on "pallets " to Afghanistan and Iraq to help get the nations rebuilt, and I remember hearing how much of that money "diapered", I would not be surprised if that money found its way into a few ISIS accounts...
A friend of mine was a mercenary for Blackwater (or whatever they were then). Said yes, they handed out pallets of dollars to get the insurgents to stop fighting. That was the 'Surge' victory.
yep
Yeah. Russia was getting too close. USA didn't want Russia to see HOW MUCH CASH USA air lifted to the rebels.
Lucky Leprachaun: Were they asking for guns / ammo in exchange for the money? Just wondering ...
Dup ...
Trip ...
No he wasn't nor did he/they.
What does that mean? All this money was "diapered"? Snuck out in someones underwear? What?
US influence is on it's way out for sure. It doesn't matter how stupid people in the US are everybody else already knows this is BS. France, Italy and many more knew that Cheney's weapons of mass destruction were BS. Certainly a huge portion of the world knows that WT7 didn't implode on itself without someones help.
China is building railroads to connect places in South America that will help them prosper while the CIA will send in death squads. China controls Asia's economy and whole world is sick of this big Murder & Theft inc.
Whatever is in control it's days are numbered. Now it's more about how many people it will kill and starve on the way out. Shit will get real within the US when this monster starts to go down. No one will have compassion for Americans because they think we are all dumbass NeoCons that like murdering people.
The ZATO murder machine will survive as long as the $ remains the reserve currency.
Ms No...I run into people I respect...that STILL think 17 Saudi's with box cutters were 9/11.
Their pentagon explanation is hilarious.
Of course, I mention #7WTC and out comes the "Oh..so you are a conspiracy theorist?"
No I say...I'm a TRUTH seeker...then bring up the trillion or so Rummy wanted burned....and bring up #7's fall on You Tube...and ask them how to explain it...
They get all pissed off....but offer no rebuttal....
Print out just the first 2 pages I linked below. Then take those pages to even a couple of those people, and ask them how do they feel now that THEY are the fools that were suckered into believing crap that the CIA fed them. In actual fact, Conspiracy Theorists arent the idiots, the people that beleive government lies and took the CIA bait are the REAL stupid ones.
http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=14945
I will guarantee you every single Fed Note of that cash is in a safe haven, controlled by some Oligarch....waiting to divide the spoils with the rest of his criminal Cabal Fuck Obama...Fuck the Fed, Fuck the US Military....Fuck everyone. and Fuck me.
One of the fuckers surviving probably is holding tonight's Powerball Winning Ticket. lmao.
i wonder if someone tracked their funding source through the swift system so they had to go.
Putting another layer of "dirt" over the skeletons that can no longer tell truths...
If a few civilians get "popped"... So be it!
Nothing personal to those innocent lives we keep taking -it's only business.
P.S.
My only wish is that the Iranian Navy whacked all of those U.S. Navy personnel that trespassed on their water then sent the "White Chimp" a video of the execution!
Long overdue!!!
Humanitarian bombing.
That's what ya call it in "Murica"!
And best of all your government is an equal opportunity "whacker" both at home and abroad in order to keep those that know too much in the dirt!
Somebody lost big in their 401k today?
BBBWWWAAAAHHHAAA!!!!!!
Yeah "a"...
But it won't be long now for the ones been dishin it out to be on the receiving end!!!
Where would we be without our armed forces starting shit for jizzreal?
Gawd bless the USA!
*the satanic gawd is what xtians worship
"If a few civilians get "popped"... So be it!"
Yea but you'd bitch like a little girl if you were the civilian to get "popped" now wouldn't you?
Lol...
Sounds a whole lot like pre-meditated mass murder. But then who's to say on such a complicated subject.
Is that what you call it?
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Russian raids kill dozens in Syria
by Staff Writers
Beirut (AFP) Jan 9, 2016
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the air raids that hit a building near a popular market in the northwestern Idlib town of Maarat al-Numan killed 21 civilians, 29 militants and seven detainees.
Thirty people were wounded, with many in critical condition.
i wonder if this was a russian strike that the usa decided to coopt to make it look like they are doing something.
I think the message was rather: ok folks, the central bank of ISIS has been abandoned. It was fun, but ... let's move to Libya for now, or Turkey.
I'm surprised that was not the Pootin loving headline.
Kataib Thuwar al-Sham throwing stones at #Syrian Arab Army at Khan Thuman after running low on ammo
Back to stone age; literally
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWqhad5KAEo
Where's David when u need him.?
Where's David when u need him.?
Thats one way to stop inflation......
Deflation. Or would it be inflation? Shrinking base money supply. Anyway, this must be what is meant by the war on cash.
Sure, they blew up physical money. They want to get rid of that, but you don't see them destroying virtual money though do ya?
Thats antisemitic!
Virtually.