USA Airstrikes on Northern Iraq

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http://www.cnbc.com/id/101884104#.
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U.S. forces conducted airstrikes in northern Iraq on Thursday against militants who had trapped religious minorities in Kurdish areas, the New York Times reported, citing Kurdish sources.

McClatchy also reported jet aircraft attacking Islamic militant positions in the Kurdish region, citing a local source, though the report said it was not clear who was conducting the strike.

But the Pentagon's press secretary, via his verified Twitter account, denied any such action had taken place.

I think it is about time.  these barstewards have got it in for anyone else and irish/northernlad and the others who support islamists go suck eggs!!!

NY Times :

WASHINGTON — Airstrikes on towns in northern Iraq seized by Islamist militants began late Thursday in what Kurdish and Iraqi officials called the first stage of an American-led intervention to blunt the militants’ advance and provide emergency aid to tens of thousands of refugees.

The Pentagon firmly denied that American forces had begun a bombing campaign. But Pentagon officials said it was possible that allies of the United States, either the Iraqi or Turkish militaries, had conducted the bombing.

Kurdish and Iraqi officials attributed the bombing campaign to American forces. An announcement on Kurdish television of what was described as an American intervention prompted street celebrations and horn-honking by residents of towns under seige by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.

Kurdish officials said the bombings initially had targeted ISIS fighters who had seized two towns, Gwer and Mahmour. A top Iraqi official in Baghdad close to Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki of Iraq said that the Americans had consulted with the Iraqi government Thursday night about starting the campaign, the government had agreed and the bombing began.

Good on the yanks I say.

There will inevitably be innocent civilian casualties perhaps Israel should  criticise America like they were by them.

Have to say, this is one military operation I totally support. These people are animals who do nothing but terrorise, extort and decapitate people who dare to defy them, all in the supposed name of Islam. I wager that 98% of the worlds muslims feel the same way about this lot as the rest of us do. There are no words for their inhumanity and depravity. I hope the yanks destroy every single one of the subhuman fckers.

Obama's confirmed that necessary airstrikes have been authorised.

How good are the Kurdish binoculars? Could have been Iraqi or even Iranian planes.

so the US are going to bomb them in Iraq whilst at the same time supporting them and supplying them with weapons in syria where they are fighting the assad government forces you really could not make it up as they say

yes it is a strange situation

I think they need to on humanitarian grounds though

Even stranger that Uk and US were on their way to bomb Assad until their people said no.

Would have given ISIS a walkover and probably tens of thousands slaughtered by now.

thats a good point.
of course this is a result of the US and NATO wrecking countries like libya.iraq and syria and not giving a flying fek what follows on afterwards

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Good on the yanks I say.


Phuck me. If they hadn't invaded Iraq in the first place, this wouldn't be happening now.

Indeed. Good old saddam would be looking after them instead.

We have a right to intervene on humanitarian grounds, but that is all, indeed we should
and if we had stuck to that and only that, a good many people dead now would be alive

We should have done this with Saddam, protect the Kurds, not overthrow him!

There is no point in trying to interfere between Shias and Sunnis, as only they can work that one out

We stick to humanitarian intervention only, ie stop genocide

I would still say the Iraqis were better off under Saddam than Isis surely?
So what point was there in taking him down

If we really cared about the Kurds why did we just not intervene and say to Saddam "hands off - no genocide here"
but we did not did we???

I do want to see intervention here, protect those Kurds, protect those Christians.
That would be a good thing for a change

Dotch, at least Saddam kept the lid on it. "It" being the hotch-potch cobbled up European invention of a country that is Iraq.

very true alias

Mind you I think those Kurds may well have nicked a couple of oilfields which did not belong to them
hmmmmmmmmm?????

Nah, they fell off the back of a lorry.

ISIS changed their name IS will soon be was