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The US has carried out air strikes against Iran-linked groups in eastern Syria after a drone attack killed a US contractor, the US defence chief said.
Eight pro-Iran fighters were killed, according to a monitoring group.
Defense officials said the air strikes happened on Thursday night, hours after the drone attack which US intelligence said was "of Iranian origin".
US bases in north-east Syria have come under attack before, with the US responding with air strikes.
About 900 US troops are operating out of bases in southern and eastern Syria, without the permission of the Syrian government, as part of the US-led global coalition against the jihadist group Islamic State (IS).
originally posted by: putnam6
Of course, America should retaliate to any attack on our soldiers, but maybe if we are gonna keep a base in Syria maybe we ought to have better detection and force protection for our bases that have been there since 2015.
Not gonna even go into is the retaliatory strike against random targets or do we have intel on the site targeted. Shouldn't there be anti-air defense systems available? Funny how sanctioned Iran can still drone attack our troops.
If nothing else have a warning system and underground bunkers by now we have been there 8 fricking years. Protect our troops dammit or is it better to have these little incidences so they can end a bad news cycle with a retaliatory strike? whenever needed.
Hasn't that been the DNC playbook since Clinton hit Bosnia
Am I wrong
originally posted by: Timber13
Seems like there are a whole lot more mercenaries in wars today. That seems to also get around the countries being involved directly this way.
Iran backed? Which somehow leaves Iran untouchable?
We're doing it in Ukraine. Russia's doing it around the world. Paid freedom fighters must be the way to go.
DAMASCUS, Syria -- An Israeli airstrike early Wednesday targeted the international airport in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, causing material damage and putting it out of service, Syria's state news agency reported. It was the second attack on the facility this month.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor, said that in addition the airport, the airstrike also destroyed a nearby arms depot of Iran-backed militiamen.
The airport has been a key channel for the flow of aid into the country after the Feb. 6 earthquake hit Turkey and Syria, killing over 50,000 people, including more than 6,000 in Syria.
originally posted by: JIMC5499
originally posted by: putnam6
Of course, America should retaliate to any attack on our soldiers, but maybe if we are gonna keep a base in Syria maybe we ought to have better detection and force protection for our bases that have been there since 2015.
Not gonna even go into is the retaliatory strike against random targets or do we have intel on the site targeted. Shouldn't there be anti-air defense systems available? Funny how sanctioned Iran can still drone attack our troops.
If nothing else have a warning system and underground bunkers by now we have been there 8 fricking years. Protect our troops dammit or is it better to have these little incidences so they can end a bad news cycle with a retaliatory strike? whenever needed.
Hasn't that been the DNC playbook since Clinton hit Bosnia
Am I wrong
What's changed?
In early 1983 a group was sent to check on the security of the US Embassy in Lebanon. While they were there they also checked the security of the Marine Barracks. Suggestions were made to improve security at both places including the use of radio signal generators that would detonate bombs with radio triggers a safe distance away from the Embassy or Barracks. The US State Department refused to allow it. We all know what happened later that year.
In 1986 we were in the Mediterranean. We had a Port Call in Naples Italy. I was in a club at one of the NATO bases and was getting ready to go back to the ship. We were told to stay in the Club because there was a bomb threat in a nearby building. Four hour later we were told that it was clear. EOD had de-fused the BOMB. A few days later, people waiting for the bus that ran between Fleet Landing and the two NATO bases were shot at by a car driving by. There were only minor injuries, no one was hit. The following day I had duty and was assigned as security for THAT bus. I was told to report to the Master at Arms to check out a weapon. What they gave me was a paperweight .45 pistol with the slide tack welded and the magazine welded into the butt. Once again our State Department wouldn't let us protect ourselves.
I won't even go into Benghazi except to say that it is about the only thing that I would defend Hilary Clinton for. The incident itself, not the a$$ covering cover-up that came later.
I'll ask one question. Were our forces in Syria ALLOWED to defend against drone attacks?
originally posted by: nugget1
DAMASCUS, Syria -- An Israeli airstrike early Wednesday targeted the international airport in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, causing material damage and putting it out of service, Syria's state news agency reported. It was the second attack on the facility this month.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor, said that in addition the airport, the airstrike also destroyed a nearby arms depot of Iran-backed militiamen.
[abcnews.go.com...]
So...Iran and Israel are doing a proxy war too?
The airport has been a key channel for the flow of aid into the country after the Feb. 6 earthquake hit Turkey and Syria, killing over 50,000 people, including more than 6,000 in Syria.
It sure seems like a nasty move by Israel to take the opportunity to commence bombing. A lot of lives were needlessly lost over the inability to get aid through.
Human lives don't seem to be a priority in any country if profit can be made over their loss.
The western world is poking a giant hornets' nest, and nobody in the western world seems to want to give diplomatic talks a try.
originally posted by: drongosrevenge
lmfao.
only reason there are bases there, to protect the gl0balist skumbag w-e-f c0rporations setting up shop there.
smedley butler explained it, 100 years later, the SAME 'internati0nalists' still pulling their nonsense.
if only people stopped listening to the 'internati0nalists' no more waars, no more taxxmen, no more taxxes, no more strife...
originally posted by: JIMC5499
a reply to: putnam6
Just trying to put some more information out there. At one time it was my butt hanging out there in the breeze and I didn't like it.
I don't know about Raytheon's newest toy. I remember the flap when they realized that the F-14 and the Phalanx system couldn't target a Cessna. I was on a carrier off Lebanon at the time. Several times we had small aircraft flying near us and there was nothing we could do if one of them decided to crash into the ship. They finally decided to have our helicopters fly patrols around the ship so we could try to shoot them down with our M-60's. Spent a lot of hours doing that.
It looks like that system uses radar for targeting. If you want to see something go to YouTube and search for FliteTest. They are making aircraft out of foamcore. You tell me how much of a radar signature those are going to have?
originally posted by: nugget1
DAMASCUS, Syria -- An Israeli airstrike early Wednesday targeted the international airport in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, causing material damage and putting it out of service, Syria's state news agency reported. It was the second attack on the facility this month.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor, said that in addition the airport, the airstrike also destroyed a nearby arms depot of Iran-backed militiamen.
[abcnews.go.com...]
So...Iran and Israel are doing a proxy war too?
The airport has been a key channel for the flow of aid into the country after the Feb. 6 earthquake hit Turkey and Syria, killing over 50,000 people, including more than 6,000 in Syria.
It sure seems like a nasty move by Israel to take the opportunity to commence bombing. A lot of lives were needlessly lost over the inability to get aid through.
Human lives don't seem to be a priority in any country if profit can be made over their loss.
The western world is poking a giant hornets' nest, and nobody in the western world seems to want to give diplomatic talks a try.