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exotix
07-01-2016, 08:31 PM
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Two Senior ISIS Commanders Killed in Air Strike

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/two-senior-isis-commanders-killed-air-strike-pentagon-n602766

Two senior ISIS commanders, including the man who oversaw the terror group's offensive to capture the Iraqi city of Mosul, were killed in a U.S.-led coalition airstrike, the Pentagon said Friday.

Basim Muhammad Ahmad Sultan al-Bajari, the terror group's deputy minister of war, and Hatim Talib al-Hamduni, an ISIS military commander in Mosul, were killed in the June 25 airstrike, the U.S. military said.

Al-Bajari, a former member of al Qaeda, oversaw the original offensive to capture Mosul in June of 2014, the Pentagon said.

The two ISIS figures were riding together in a car when they were killed, a senior defense official said.

Al-Bajari and al-Hamdun were the only two people in the vehicle, the official said.

"Their deaths, along with strikes against other ISIL leaders in the past month, have critically degraded ISIL's leadership experience in Mosul and removed two of their most senior military members in Northern Iraq," Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook said in a statement.

"Removing these terrorist leaders from the battlefield shapes the environment for Iraqi forces to ultimately liberate Mosul with support from the international coalition," Cook said.


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JDubya
07-01-2016, 09:18 PM
Would really enjoy watching video of the vehicle they were riding in being vaporized.

exotix
07-01-2016, 09:35 PM
Would really enjoy watching video of the vehicle they were riding in being vaporized.Photo here ... http://en.abna24.com/service/middle-east-west-asia/archive/2016/01/30/732547/story.html ... well, sort of ... LOL


http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/151206112226-yemen-isis-attack-1206-exlarge-169.jpg

Tahuyaman
07-01-2016, 09:49 PM
The Obama doctrine.... One step forward, two steps back.

exotix
07-01-2016, 10:01 PM
The Obama doctrine.... One step forward, two steps back.I'm sure this makes sense.

Tahuyaman
07-01-2016, 11:33 PM
The Obama doctrine.... One step forward, two steps back.


I'm sure this makes sense.


No, it doesn't.

Peter1469
07-02-2016, 03:57 AM
I read something a while back that targeting the top level terrorists was not a winning strategy. Better to target the middle management- the leaders at the operational level.

JDubya
07-02-2016, 08:39 AM
Photo here ... http://en.abna24.com/service/middle-east-west-asia/archive/2016/01/30/732547/story.html ... well, sort of ... LOL


http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/151206112226-yemen-isis-attack-1206-exlarge-169.jpg

Nice photo.

Woulda been nicer had the charred remains not been removed already.

That's what really makes a good picture great, when talking about ISIS.

JDubya
07-02-2016, 08:41 AM
The Obama doctrine.... One step forward, two steps back.

The Tahuyaman doctrine.... :yap::blahblah:

exotix
07-02-2016, 08:52 AM
The Tahuyaman doctrine.... :yap::blahblah:

http://s9.tinypic.com/241tfsx_th.jpg (http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=241tfsx&s=9) .... http://i63.tinypic.com/33kq988.gif

Tahuyaman
07-02-2016, 09:30 AM
I knew that the hacks wouldn't undestand that one.

Tahuyaman
07-02-2016, 09:35 AM
I read something a while back that targeting the top level terrorists was not a winning strategy. Better to target the middle management- the leaders at the operational level.


I'd say the best strategy is to take out as many as possible, period. I would think that killing them all, no matter what their position in the organization may be would do two things. First, dramatically thin their ranks. Second, be a deterrence to joining them in the first place.

I know I wouldn't join an organization if I knew death was certain.

Peter1469
07-02-2016, 11:23 AM
I'd say the best strategy is to take out as many as possible, period. I would think that killing them all, no matter what their position in the organization may be would do two things. First, dramatically thin their ranks. Second, be a deterrence to joining them in the first place.

I know I wouldn't join an organization if I knew death was certain.

If you want to waste them all take nuclear off the table. Or just poisoning regional water supplies.

But if we did that, we have easy to reach water supplies as well.

Tahuyaman
07-02-2016, 11:29 AM
If you want to waste them all take nuclear off the table. Or just poisoning regional water supplies.

But if we did that, we have easy to reach water supplies as well.,

I can't go along with poisoning the water supply. That's getting too close to biological warfare. We could eliminate these people through conventional means if we chose to.

Peter1469
07-02-2016, 11:33 AM
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I can't go along with poisoning the water supply. That's getting too close to biological warfare. We could eliminate these people through conventional means if we chose to.

I don't think that we could. Not when you factor in political will. Which includes the say of the public.

Petraeus' concept for fighting an insurgency can work- to a high degree of certainty. However it takes at least one decade and likely many more decades. Americans won't tolerate that. I told him that in 2008. He was ridding high then. His policy has been toss into the trash bin now.