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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You don't know how happy I am to have helped pay for all this.
Must have been a paper trailback to the Agency.
And the US has outright supported armed and trained 'isis' - which grew out of Al Qaeda in Iraq.
At issue is only how early and explicit this aid was. Given the lack of attacks on isis, by isis on israel or the us, given the takedown of the russian airliner by the us/israel, rita katz etc etc we seem to have part of the us government perfectly happy to help the neocons flood it with weapons to destroy syria as a viable state - via a terror proxy made up mostly of foreigners and plainly not entirely takfiri bona fides.
Isis is a us/israeli proxy force.
http://leaksource.info/2015/01/17/the-yinon-plan-greater-israel-syria-ir...
It both kills civilians and destroys infrastructure while also providing a pretext for us troops and more mic/nato $$. It also depopulates an area Israel would love depopulatedwhile sending migrants flooding, via incentives, to Germany inter alia which folds nicely into globalist plans to deracinate, denationalize, and generally destroy that which impedes israeli goals, mic profits, or banker power.
The Nulands and Kagans etc could care less about the possibility of large scale death or the prospect of us troops or civvies being murderized by weapons cia gave to al qaeda and "isis". Point is to destroy syria, keep golani oil, keep villifying islam while isis kills mostly muslims, avoids attacking or even rebuking israel verbally, as israel continues to bulldoze arab (but never jewish) homes, let settlers and idf murder in cold blood , etc etc nber covered by the msm or zh which requires seeking out news re the decades old illegal occupation by israel of palestine.
putin sure scrambled O'Bombya's masters' plans some
http://www.moonofalabama.org/2016/01/syria-obamas-delusion-over-russian-...
You're high. REALLY high.
BTW
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.
Mr. Observatory once said that 97,000 girl scouts were killed by Russia in a chicken coop raid. But he was there when it happened, No?
Dahhhhhm son! You're even higher than that other dude. Might be a new record!
97,000 girls scouts and a Russian chicken coop? I bet the colors were very pretty. I'm told people make shit up like this when they snort those bath salts...
Just say no!
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Simple hint for simple mind. Get high and wears off gradually.
Sadly, your retardity is condition permanent.
This sends a pretty strong message to ISIS from John McShame - "We are not paying you to FUCKING DESERT" !!!
“US commanders had been willing to consider up to 50 civilian casualties"
This is the stuff geopolitical isolation is made of --
If you are a political animal you consider the fallout of war deaths. If you are a military animal you are at war, you don't go out of your way to kill unless it ups the odds of winning the war. It usually does. If you are a civilian animal, you get on down the road or you take your chances. Judging from pics out of bombed out contested cities in the ME, I vote for gtfo, In a saner world the USSA would be branded an agressor and held fiscally responsible just as Germany was post WW2 and we occupied them to make sure they behaved.
Killed civilians only 5-7, so accordance with US military doctrine means drone operators allowed 43-45 free civilian kills.
Maybe try for orphanage this time, too many hospitals bombed and gets boring...
This is for you. BTW. You might try some acne medication because it looks like your blistery pink face condition seems to be getting worse. Its obviously infecting your brain...
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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.
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Woooo... SOHR is known for solid edition, is famous for its serious approach to the verification of facts, dooo. ;-)
Well, good luck with your future attempts to reach out to the masses Great Truth©!
Don't worry. The whole world believes it (except for Moscow fan bois) so mission accomplished!
Thanks for the help!
I will give you a quick tip, your bullshit is very easily spotted by many people on this site, the more you spread it, the bigger the moron you expose yourself as being.
Monetary tightning
Some low level functionary misunderstood the "war on cash" memo and the order was sent out to the military. Shit happens.
pity it wasn't silver dollars, the crowds would be cryin " thanks obama "
Thank you very much Tyler(s). That was a very quick response.
Evidence money trail went POOF!
Lots of bang for the buck.
So now the US can strike with precision or was Doctor's with Borders or a wedding was going?
Sounds good to me. Need more of it.
But on the bright side, at least that monetary intervention was sterilized.
I'm with the guy who said this was a bank robbery.
I bet they bombed that bank precisely because of civilians. They considered to kill at least 50 but got only 7 so its a failure for them. Really, what idiot would believe them, if they really wanted ISIS they would attack Saudies not in Iraq. Iraq is only a playground. Are we to believe US interests is really to kill ISIS? After all proof we saw over years? After they warned oil truck drivers only recently? After they invested so much money in them? After Apache passed by without firing at them? LOL
Yeah. Russia was getting too close. USA didn't want Russia to see HOW MUCH CASH USA air lifted to the rebels.
Actually, you seem to have been too close to the microwave oven when you were warming up your tin foil hat...
Please...
Why does the US have the authority to bomb at will, all over Iraq still?? Will Iraq ever get control of its own Dinar, and oil sale money again?
Because. Maybe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD_AejDc1fA
Obama of Arabia, no gold just paper.
That's one way to fight inflation.
Print and Destroy !
Being almost physically unable to watch mainstream media, I was surprised to hear the phrase "US led coalition" Who in their right mind would follow this country? And Russia doesn't exist in the eyes of these oh so loyal reporters, right? Oh, and the State Dept. spokesperson today still can't make up his mind about Assad going or staying.
Now HERE is a coalition for you! Apparently your boy Putin has decided now that "they aren't all terrorists"
BBBBWWWAAAAHHHAAAA!!!!!
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Russia Is Arming Hezbollah, Say Two of the Group’s Field Commanders
On the Syrian battlefield, Vladimir Putin’s planes and special forces work ever more closely with the Party of God
BEIRUT — Lebanese Hezbollah field commanders with troops fighting in Syria tell The Daily Beast they are receiving heavy weapons directly from Russia with no strings attached.
“We are strategic allies in the Middle East right now—the Russians are our allies and give us weapons,” said one of the Hezbollah officers who chose to call himself Commander Bakr. He is in charge of five units in Syria, around 200 troops. (He chuckled when he said his nom de guerre, mocking Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-appointed “caliph” of the so-called Islamic State.)
what happen to the holy dinar? whare is all the mystical gold? what? they exchanged it for toyota trucks that israel bought from turkey?
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An ISIS bank is a valid military target. Suggest that all banks in ISIS territories be bombed. Also bomb cell towers, phone hubs, and tv stations. I am politically incorrect and would bomb any mosque that ISIS likes as well.
Wait, what? I thought ISIS paid in gold?
If I wanted to kill people for pieces of paper I would have just joined the US military instead.
<-- CabalA$$LickerLiarAddictObamma : America is the most powerful nation (period) (period) (period) (becuz) America spends more than the next 8 countries on military.
Hah ha what a joker
If burning money can be considered as spending
(btw they pay their def. contractors @ 100 times than normal
due to RISK created, thats the real cause of high spending
and where goes all that money? - anybody's guess
from where they get the money? - their printing m/c == The Fed)
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Comparison :
Russia has more nuclear warheads than rest of the world combined
And Russian intercontinental missile (TOPOL) is not ballastic ,
it is actually a supersonic cruise missile impossible to detect & takedown
Russia also has defensive EMP ECM which can make any aircraft carrier's electronics useless
Chinese Army has 2.5 million personnel
BRICS military strength is more than 5 million personnel
Horse shit!!
Not a single iota i believe US will do to harm its asset I$I$.
Trusting a country like UK,France, USA and calling for help in your country's matter to solve a thing is simply making a packt with the devil by signing your death warrant by yourself.
It is in their foreign policy made business by death of others.
This is another cover up for something they want to hide from the people.They never do anything to save others except worsening a situation.Time will tell what they were up to.
Eureka! This explains the entire concept of the US mid-east strategy of creating and supporting ISIS. Their purpose is to gather-up all the printed USD's in foreign circulation and stuff them to the ceilings in a few banks. Then the US Air Force blows them-up and "waallaa" all that excess cash that would have found it's way back into the US economy is vaporized. Thereby, preventing all that cash from flooding back into the US and causing hyper-inflation. Brilliant! I'll bet Janet Yellen thought of this all by herself.
You missed the Mujaheedeen and the Taliban in your cycle, ZH.
"Attacking ISIS financial infrastructure" means bombing a pile of paper money? I am incredulous.
ISIS can move millions from oil sales, and some bank in some money center (Istanbul?) allows that wire transfer to be executed. It the modern version of a telex, there is a "test key" that names the bank sending. The FED can "see" every wire that goes around the world, because even GBP/RUB is GBPUSD and USDRUB. Jack Lew had a office at CITI. He could have asked to see how a wire transfer works. We are bombing a pile of paper to get at their financial stockpile?
Could the Pentagon please, maybe, hire someone who knows something about how the world works?
You can be sure that Saudis and Turkey were made aware of the strike
well in advance, so it might make sense to check out Erdogan family
and Saudi withdrawals made shortly before the bombing.