US jets strike jihadists in Iraq

[Lite Beer]

US jets strike jihadists in Iraq

ARBIL - US warplanes bombed jihadist positions in northern Iraq on Friday, in what the federal and Kurdish governments vowed would allow them to start clawing back areas lost in two months of conflict.

President Barack Obama’s order for the first air strikes on Iraq since he put an end to US occupation in 2011 came after Islamic State (IS) militants made massive gains on the ground, seizing a dam and forcing a mass exodus of religious minorities.

The Pentagon said US forces bombed an artillery position after fire against Kurdish regional government forces defending their capital Arbil.

In a second wave hours later, a drone destroyed a mortar position and jets hit a seven-vehicle IS convoy with eight laser-guided bombs.

The US operation began with air drops of food and water for thousands of people hiding from the Sunni extremist militants in a barren northern mountain range.

Many people who have been cowering in the Sinjar mountains for five days in searing heat and with no supplies are Yazidis, a minority that follows a 4,000-year-oldfaith.

Late Friday the Pentagon said that cargo planes escorted by combat jets made a second air drop of food and water to "thousands of Iraqi citizens" threatened by the jihadists "on Mount Sinjar, Iraq."

Obama accused the IS, which calls Yazidis "devil-worshippers", of attempting" the systematic destruction of the entire people, which would constitute genocide".

The UN said it was "urgently preparing a humanitarian corridor".

Panic had begun to grip Arbil after IS thrust into the Nineveh plains separating it from the jihadist-held city of Mosul and Obama’s decision was welcomed there.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/US-jets-strike-jihadists-in-Iraq-30240631.html

 

[thenation]2014-08-09[/thenation]

[bartender100]

Just in time by the sounds of it, IS just 20 miles away from Ebril, which is home to many international companies, including 47 oil companies, many of them British and American,

 

David Cameron still on the sideline 

 

 

[shirtless]

they could have done this while Isis was on the open highway and saved all this hardship . As usual they only wait until economic interests are threatened .Hey governments of the world stop using tax payer money to secure big business interests, they dont pay tax then they get subsidies now this.

[Robby nz]

Never seen to be able to get my head around killing people for humanitarian reasons.

[rgs2001uk]

Never seen to be able to get my head around killing people for humanitarian reasons.

 

Never been able to get my head round why the eff should the tax payers dollar be used to protect the profits of these international conglomerates, usually tax avoiders in the country that they expect to protect their interests.

 

Tell Uncle Sam to send the bill to the BPs of the world.

[Publicus]

Some people say China won the Iraq War.

 

China is Iraq's single largest oil client and operates more than one-fifth of ongoing oil projects in Iraq, more than any other single country.

 

China purchases nearly half the oil produced in Iraq. Oil from Iraq equals 8% of China's crude imports of oil.

 

The strategic balance of power precludes the CCP in Beijing trying to place any PRChinese troops in or anywhere near Iraq and the ME. So the exposed state owned and operated CCP oil corporations in Iraq have had to hire Western and ME private security companies to protect them.

 

When Lybia went South, Beijing lost 3% of its total oil imports and had to hire private ships and boats to execute a ragtag evacuation of 36,000 PRChinese oil workers from Lybia.

 

Since June many Chinese have been bailing out of areas close to where Iraqi regular forces and ISIS militants are fighting.

 

Maybe the war's not over yet.

 

Maybe for sure.

[neverdie]

I wonder how many decades will,pass before the Iraqis can look after themselves?

ISIS and vers II, III, IV & V etc etc will keep popping up for many years to come.....this is already Groundhog Day.

Amazing what the power of oil will do.

[Stargeezr]

Let ISIS or what ever they call themselves these day have a part of northern Iraq. Make it a very circle shaped

area. plant a homing device smack dab in the center, then in a few months, send in a low yield neutron package

no strings attached. Is this too barbaric or what. I guess I am not very civilized, as I do not see many other

schemes working to solve this present problem.

[rhythmworx]

Some people say China won the Iraq War.

 

China is Iraq's single largest oil client and operates more than one-fifth of ongoing oil projects in Iraq, more than any other single country.

 

China purchases nearly half the oil produced in Iraq. Oil from Iraq equals 8% of China's crude imports of oil.

 

The strategic balance of power precludes the CCP in Beijing trying to place any PRChinese troops in or anywhere near Iraq and the ME. So the exposed state owned and operated CCP oil corporations in Iraq have had to hire Western and ME private security companies to protect them.

 

When Lybia went South, Beijing lost 3% of its total oil imports and had to hire private ships and boats to execute a ragtag evacuation of 36,000 PRChinese oil workers from Lybia.

 

Since June many Chinese have been bailing out of areas close to where Iraqi regular forces and ISIS militants are fighting.

 

Maybe the war's not over yet.

 

Maybe for sure.

 In that case they also won the Afghanistan war, they have invested billions into Afghan as part of their take over the middle-east scheme, they pretty much own most of the south east, time to spread it out and make even more money.

[rickirs]

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Some people say China won the Iraq War.

 

China is Iraq's single largest oil client and operates more than one-fifth of ongoing oil projects in Iraq, more than any other single country.

 

China purchases nearly half the oil produced in Iraq. Oil from Iraq equals 8% of China's crude imports of oil.

 

The strategic balance of power precludes the CCP in Beijing trying to place any PRChinese troops in or anywhere near Iraq and the ME. So the exposed state owned and operated CCP oil corporations in Iraq have had to hire Western and ME private security companies to protect them.

 

When Lybia went South, Beijing lost 3% of its total oil imports and had to hire private ships and boats to execute a ragtag evacuation of 36,000 PRChinese oil workers from Lybia.

 

Since June many Chinese have been bailing out of areas close to where Iraqi regular forces and ISIS militants are fighting.

 

Maybe the war's not over yet.

 

Maybe for sure.

 

But you can believe that China would have no qualms about buying Iraqi oil captured by ISIS if offered. When it comes to suppliers of its energy needs China knows no enemy.

[Thongkorn]

 

Never seen to be able to get my head around killing people for humanitarian reasons.

 

Never been able to get my head round why the eff should the tax payers dollar be used to protect the profits of these international conglomerates, usually tax avoiders in the country that they expect to protect their interests.

 

Tell Uncle Sam to send the bill to the BPs of the world.

 

  unfortunately Most Governments in the world would not function with out the BPs of the world. Governments rely on tax from petrochemicals.

Edited August 10, 2014 by Thongkorn

[Bwanatickey]

ISIS are armed with American military hardware, a lot of it captured from the well armed and well trained new Iraq army.

Who where Armed and trained by The U.S.A with weapons that they supplied them with.

Now the Kurds are outgunned by ISIS who have superior firepower.

The Kurds are now being supplied by the U.S with weapons to knock out enemy weapons.

Try solve that one, your own firepower has to be overpowered by your own firepower.

[chuckd]

ISIS are armed with American military hardware, a lot of it captured from the well armed and well trained new Iraq army.

Who where Armed and trained by The U.S.A with weapons that they supplied them with.

Now the Kurds are outgunned by ISIS who have superior firepower.

The Kurds are now being supplied by the U.S with weapons to knock out enemy weapons.

Try solve that one, your own firepower has to be overpowered by your own firepower.

 

Your so called "well armed and well trained new Iraq army" followed their officers leads, dropped their weapons, took off their uniforms and tried to run away.

 

Many of them didn't make it home.

[Familyonthemove]

The main problem is that someone put our oil under their sand.

Then drawing arbitrary lines on a map to divide up the sand between the colonial powers didn't help much.

But in the history of mankind has bombing people ever sorted things out?

[Ulysses G.]

But in the history of mankind has bombing people ever sorted things out?

It certainly work on the Axis powers in World War 2.