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Coalition Strikes Pound IS ‘capital’ in Syria, Oil Tankers
US-led coalition warplanes have pounded the Islamic State group in Syria after the Paris attacks, with French raids hitting IS stronghold Raqa and another strike destroying dozens of oil tankers.
In its first major military response to Friday’s attacks in Paris, France said 12 of its warplanes had hit IS positions in Raqa, the jihadists’ de facto Syrian capital.
In Paris, President Francois Hollande said France would “intensify” operations in Syria.
French warplanes take off from an unspecified location to bomb the Islamic State group’s de facto Syrian capital of Raqa, on November 15, 2015
“We will continue the strikes in the weeks to come,” he told an exceptional meeting of both houses of parliament.
Activists and a monitoring group said the wave of strikes had shaken Raqa and sparked panic, but the number of casualties was not yet known.
“There were at least 36 explosions overnight in Raqa city, some caused by air strikes and some by weapons and explosives detonating after being hit,” said Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
“The blasts shook the entire city,” he told AFP.
France’s defence ministry said warplanes, including Rafale and Mirage fighters, had dropped 20 bombs on targets including a command post, a recruitment centre and arms depots south of Raqa.
A training camp west of the city was also hit, it said.
The strikes came after IS claimed responsibility for the bomb and gun attacks that killed at least 129 people in Paris.
“IS has imposed a security alert on the city, and it is difficult to confirm information about casualties from hospitals there,” Abdel Rahman said.
He said IS had already imposed security measures in Raqa after previous raids, including evacuating some headquarters and moving the families of foreign fighters elsewhere.
– ‘French strikes could help’ –
An activist group, Raqa is Being Slaughtered Silently (RBSS), said the raids caused “panic” among civilians but that no civilians appeared to have been killed.
“IS is not allowing people to walk around and has cut off all the electricity,” said RBSS activist Abu Mohammad, who is from Raqa.
Speaking via the Internet, he said IS members typically take refuge in bomb shelters during strikes.
Raqa is regularly targeted by US-led coalition aircraft, Syrian warplanes and more recently Russian air strikes which began on September 30.
Experts said France’s strikes could be useful if they were based on solid information, but warned that intelligence gaps and the risks of civilian deaths have long been obstacles to targeting IS.
“If the French do have good intelligence on where they’re targeting and they are doing it for good reason rather than to just lash out, then it could in the long term build into something useful,” analyst and researcher Charlie Winter told AFP.
He said IS’s top leadership was unlikely to be in Raqa, and that it would seek to capitalise on any civilian casualties for propaganda purposes.
– Going after IS revenues –
The US-led coalition has targeted IS in Syria since September 2014, expanding a campaign that began in Iraq.
The coalition has killed hundreds of IS members, the Observatory says, but has had a limited effect on its ability to hold territory.
On Monday, the Pentagon said coalition strikes on Sunday destroyed 116 fuel trucks used by the jihadists near Albu Kamal, an IS-held town in Deir Ezzor province on the border with Iraq.
A coalition spokesman said the strike hit parked trucks, “the first time that we’ve hit so many at once”.
The spokesman also said there was a leaflet drop ahead of the strikes “to encourage truck drivers to stay away from the targeted trucks”.
IS reportedly makes millions of dollars from oilfields it controls.
The coalition has vowed to target IS’s financial resources, the spokesman said, adding: “This strike was part of that strategy to start degrading their financial ability.”
A US-backed alliance of Kurdish and Arab forces fighting IS in northeast Syria announced Monday it had driven the jihadists from 196 villages.
Syrian Democratic Forces spokesman Talal Ali Sello said that “between October 30 and November 13, an area of 1,362 square kilometres (545 square miles) was cleansed of IS”.
Canada said its forces had also targeted IS in Iraq on Sunday as new Prime Minister Justin Trudeau comes under pressure after the Paris attacks to reconsider a campaign pledge to have Canadian forces in the coalition halt such strikes.
38 Comments on "Coalition Strikes Pound IS ‘capital’ in Syria, Oil Tankers"
Plantagenet on Mon, 16th Nov 2015 10:02 pm
Viva la France!
GregT on Mon, 16th Nov 2015 10:31 pm
Vivre par l’épée mourra par l’épée!
Truth Has A Liberal Bias on Tue, 17th Nov 2015 2:05 am
ISIS is in Libya, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Bangladesh. Air strikes hit trucks and warehouses in Syria. Big whoop. Just politicians flexing for the electorate. The impact this little show will have is meaningless. This is collapse. ISIS is a crisis cult. Soon there will be worse and more of it. The crisis cults in closest proximity to the yanks are some of Mexico’s criminal organizations. Coming to a neighbourhood near you soon.
Truth Has A Liberal Bias on Tue, 17th Nov 2015 2:18 am
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/cocaine-cartel-uses-religion-to-control-its-killers-1.693712
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jul/05/la-familia-mexico-drug-cartel
Truth Has A Liberal Bias on Tue, 17th Nov 2015 2:26 am
Crisis cults. Now you know. I’m not justifying it, I’m explaining it; a distinction that is often lost on retarded Americans. That’s probably why most of you are so fucking stupid- somebody explains something to you that you don’t like and you accuse them of justifying it, so they no longer even bother talking to you because they can see you’re a fucking idiot who will never understand anything unless its troop worship or it fits into a right-left wing binary dialect. I’ve never seen a more pathetic lot of half wits than the regular commenters to this pathetic excuse for a peak oil site.
Davy on Tue, 17th Nov 2015 3:48 am
False and Liberal Amounts of Dumbass, you sounded a little bit smart with your crisis cult but then you over did it I guess because nobody was impressed. By the way your crisis cults are coming to Montreal too. Do you think you will not see them? You cats do coke up there too probably more because you all are liberal dumbasses full of bias. Mexican drug gangs like Montreal just as much as Buffalo. Here is some advice dumbass. You can do a worthy comment occasionally when you talk normally with decor. The majority of the time you are mouthing off with obscenities and bigotry. You are a blemish to our board when you act like an adolescent. Try being an adult.
Davy on Tue, 17th Nov 2015 3:54 am
My hope is to see the potential for the major powers to come together to fight a common enemy and bury the hatchet. ISIS has given all the powers a chance to save face and cooperate. This will be a big win for Putin. You got to compliment this guy he is a brilliant leader and tactician. The guy has blood and theft all over his hands but what leader and politician doesn’t.
I imagine with the attacks and refugee crisis Europe is going to be in no mood for further conflict with Russia. They have issues in front of them that require Russian cooperation. Let us hope we see a detente. The world is unravelling that is plain to see. There is a window of change, mitigation, and adaptation. If we are not at each other’s throat we may be able to have some vital cooperation when “The Crisis” starts. The crisis is already underway in multiple ways but I am talking when food and fuel supplies are disrupted globally. We are getting ever closer to that day. Like sands through the hour glass.
JuanP on Tue, 17th Nov 2015 6:58 am
What a circus! This truly is the greatest show on Earth. I wonder who really was behind the downed MH17 and the downed Russian plane and the Paris and Ankara attacks. This stinks of NATO false flag operations to have an excuse to bomb Syria. The USA is obsessed with gettind rid of Assad. The Americans should get it into their heads that the only president they have to choose is the American president. The people of Syria don’t want the American foreign mercenary terrorists in their country! They want President Assad. I hope with all my heart that President Assad stays in power a long time. He is the very last secular political leader in the Middle East.
Yankees come home! We are simply not wanted elsewhere.
JuanP on Tue, 17th Nov 2015 7:25 am
And the Russians do the same thing, continuing this tit for tat escalation.
https://www.rt.com/news/322393-russian-plane-crash-terrorist-attack/
Davy on Tue, 17th Nov 2015 7:25 am
Assad family are human butchers history is clear on that. Anti-American conspiracy theories and false flag opinions are opinions. What is real and what isn’t is not clear. These opinions have legitimacy but too often take on the tone of an agenda of resentment, grudges of hate and blame.
shortonoil on Tue, 17th Nov 2015 8:18 am
“Crisis cults. Now you know.”
It’s not surprising; it fits right in with the ghouls, vampires, and zombie theme. The inhabitants of a civilization in crisis are likely to conjure up all kinds of monsters to explain what they sense, but can’t identify. The US is now bombing “Desert Devils” to prevent their advance. Unfortunately, the desert inhabitants are getting in the way!
dave thompson on Tue, 17th Nov 2015 9:42 am
http://rabble.ca/news/2015/11/our-solidarity-paris-embarrassingly-misguided?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rabble-news+%28rabble.ca+-+News+for+the+rest+of+us%29
bug on Tue, 17th Nov 2015 9:43 am
Then, as always, the desert inhabitants that have survived look at their smashed house and kids/sister/wife inside and say
“Oh well nothing to live for now, may as well join the other group and fight back”
Boat on Tue, 17th Nov 2015 11:38 am
Interesting the French had so many available targets with more to come. Wouldn’t the coalition have already bombed all available targets and just waiting for intelligence for more? What would be the point of not bombing a target.
The Russians want to work with the French now. Does this mean any man or kid with a gun is a target? Or are there good men and kids with guns to differentiate from.
Boat on Tue, 17th Nov 2015 11:53 am
Will there be enough men and boys left to kick out Assad. Or did Russia and Iran win this round as everyone shift their focus to ISIL, ISIS, al Queda whoever they are. I think the names change whenever one group or another supplies the next goat.
apneaman on Tue, 17th Nov 2015 1:01 pm
Paris massacre of 1961
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_massacre_of_1961
kanon on Tue, 17th Nov 2015 1:12 pm
“Interesting the French had so many available targets with more to come. Wouldn’t the coalition have already bombed all available targets and just waiting for intelligence for more? What would be the point of not bombing a target.”
Since my available information is limited and mostly propaganda, I think the most logical explanation is that ISIS has been clandestinely supported by Saudia Arabia, US and NATO. It is an extension of the “Al Qaeda” strategy of a kept band of revolutionaries, like a “Fidel on a leash” idea. Unfortunately, just as pit vipers do not make good pets, the revolutionaries don’t always follow the script. On the other hand, there remains the possibility of a false flag operation to stir things up again. I just cannot see any cooperative arrangement with Russia since that leaves too many questions of imperial control. I see the main powers as Saudi Arabia and Iran and Russia is aligned with Iran, the US and NATO with Saudi Arabia. The plot thickens, I suppose. The unacknowledged elephant in the room is GW and food supplies. I believe there is a growing possibility of famine in the ME.
Marty on Tue, 17th Nov 2015 1:46 pm
Assad was trained as a medical doctor.
Did he not take the Hippocratic Oath?
First: Do NO Harm.
Boat on Tue, 17th Nov 2015 2:05 pm
kanon,
I see the main powers as Saudi Arabia and Iran and Russia is aligned with Iran, the US and NATO with Saudi Arabia.
Yea, there is now way they can find a common enemy to bomb. All those factions and groups are supported by some nation. Weird how the leaders of the world say they want to work together when they know they can’t. Well….maybe not so weird after all.
Dredd on Tue, 17th Nov 2015 5:36 pm
Extinction season for old America (Extinction: Peace).
jjhman on Tue, 17th Nov 2015 7:44 pm
Like everyone else on this forum I have absolutely no knowledge of any support for ISIS by any outside group. I will, however, state with a clear conscience that anyone suggesting that the US govt or the French govt were in any way responsible for the attacks on the US in 2003 or the attack on Paris this month is a simplistic hater and anything they have to say should be ignored as such.
theedrich on Wed, 18th Nov 2015 2:49 am
“You never let a serious crisis go to waste.” — Rahm Emanuel, former porkmaster for Ø. The ISIL slaughter, on Friday the thirteenth of November 2015, of 129 or so Parisians has now been inflated into a Europe-wide “crisis.” In fact, is being used to justify yet more dictatorship not just in France and Europe, but in the U.S. as well. Never mind that on the subsequent weekend (Nov 14-15), probably well more than 129 people were killed in French automobile accidents. Yet there was no national outcry to make the roads of Gaul safer. But French prime minister François Hollande speechified that he had to take away yet more citizens’ rights to keep his sheep safe (and, of course, spend lots more money France does not have). At the end of his oration, the entire Parlement français fell in lock step with him and tearfully sang the La Marseillaise, their national anthem. So henceforth the punishment for White “racism” (which, of course, causes Mohammedan slaughters) will be even more draconian. A few French symbolic bombing raids are being conducted against Syrian piles of rubble to show that the Euro-elites mean business. But the almost bankrupt French state will soon be asking the POTUS for more military goodies and leadership from behind. Again.
Meanwhile, said POTUS is accelerating his program of darkening America by importing 100,000 “refugees” from MENA and Black Afroland because that’s “who we are.” The money to accomplish this and to forever support the new parasites will be dutifully handed over (after some counterfeit resistance) by the purchased Congress and its tearjerking spinmeisters. Forget the interests of the American citizenry.
The current U.S.-generated and promoted “refugee” surge and the hysteria about the danger to American “interests” (i.e., planetary control) shows just how precarious the global Ponzi scheme really is. A handful of Mohammedanists with low-tech weapons now threatens the overextended power structures of the financial Borg. Only dictatorship by the Demonic Party can save us. And the Parisian Friday the 13th? Well, you never let a serious crisis go to waste. It all fits so well with the universal White wish for genosuicide.
bug on Wed, 18th Nov 2015 7:10 am
Explain this dictatorship by the demonic party? Seems both parties are trying to out militarize, use special authority in regards to this situation, not just the dingleberry party.
I do agree 100% with the car death anology, I think more people are killed everywhere, every year driving to church, work, school and concerts than terrorists of all shades.
Davy on Wed, 18th Nov 2015 7:50 am
Yea Bug, this whole terrorist thing shows the ignorance of modern humans. We are worried about a statistically very low probability of death at the hands of a terrorist but we ignore the likelihood of dying by hunger and disease from a global decline. So many people are in the crosshairs of climate change yet little is done. Cities are going to become uninhabitable in many places very soon. That will only get worse over time. Drought and floods elsewhere will disrupt lives and the food chain. Our food chain is the most critical element of modern life that is dangerously exposed to disruption. We are ignoring this profound danger of our food chain failing.
What are we doing instead we spend trillions globally on wars against a few terrorist. This war is conducted overtly with military and covertly internally with security overkill. We are a frog being boiled with the real issues of survival. We are distracted hysterically about a few terrorist but we can become complacent about guns and gun violence. We worry about a bomb in a train station that will kill a handful of people when a handful of people die every day from gun violence. This is absurd and points to a defect in the human mind and a defect in our current cultural narrative.
My only hope for meaningful change before we are swept away by the tide of disruptive change is a serious crisis. This crisis will likely have to be centered around food and fuel. It will have to be a serious disruption but not too serious as to cause a complete collapse. I imagine in a serious crisis we will see many locals collapsing but my point is the system as a whole within the collapsing of multiple locals will hold and long enough to allow meaningful change. That is a big gamble but it is our only hope for less pain and suffering.
This meaningful change would be the end of poor attitudes and lifestyles. These poor attitudes and lifestyles would be center around consumerism and leisure as very visible examples of many. We need both of these activities but not the high energy and low value that is so common today. We need people focused on food production. We need to end the multitude of jobs with no benefit to society and these people put to work growing food.
Many of these employment types are just causing more harm than good. I am pointing a finger at much of the financial sector that has grown an order of magnitude too large in size and consumption. The financial sector will be important as long as the global system is functioning but we do not need the kind of activity that is going on in the financial sector. The level of the rich and the size of the wealth must be reduced to a level maybe seen in the 60’s.
I could go on and on but the key idea here is we are in denial of what the real dangers are at all levels in society. A crisis may end denial. A crisis may bring on positive change. A crisis is a gamble that may work or may not. We are on the knife edge of whether we will have the right crisis and some luck. The alternative is a disorganized retreat that is never good. An orderly retreat might offer less pain and suffering.
bug on Wed, 18th Nov 2015 8:23 am
Yes davy, an orderly retreat is what will be beneficial, but I think this won’t happen. Chaos, hatred and the scene from “2001” where the ape men smash each other over the head with bones.
Society is beyond denial, they willfully blow it off as “Nah, never happen, hey the playoffs are coming”. My opinion is good riddance to what we have now.
Davy on Wed, 18th Nov 2015 9:38 am
Bug, I feel this will be a variable across millions of locals and many different regions. This is the reason I am telling everyone I can chose your local wisely.
apneaman on Wed, 18th Nov 2015 10:35 am
Hook Versus Crook
http://www.economic-undertow.com/2015/11/17/hook-vs-crook/
Mike616 on Wed, 18th Nov 2015 10:26 pm
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/717228-never-let-a-good-crisis-go-to-waste
Churchill.
theedrich on Thu, 19th Nov 2015 4:09 am
Ok, let’s look at the larger picture. The government ringmasters and their oligarchic stringpullers know all about Peak Everything. They are neither ignorant (except perhaps about racial differences in IQ) nor dumb. They know that their chance for global conquest is now or never. They know also that, as elsewhere, the populations of the West, especially in the U.S. and its Canadian suburb, are largely infantile and easily manipulable by the controlled media.
Years ago, George W. Bush, at the beginning of his utterly unwarranted attack on Iraq, said, “We’re trying to change the world.” By the average American, that was interpreted to mean that he was working to bring about heaven on earth. So the average citizen allowed himself or herself to be convinced that Bad Guy Saddam Hussein really did have weapons of mass destruction secreted somewhere. Go, Bush, go!
The tsunami of horror was continued by his dark successor in the White House. Domestic media never showed the blasted bodies, the gruesome results of the bi-administrational policy of domination. That would be almost as bad as showing the female nipple on TV. Instead, the nightly news diverted the masses with a combo of sports, melodrama and tear-jerkers, usually following up with some heart-warming tidbit for the older females. Mustn’t let the masses see what “their” government is really doing. Never mind all of the vets coming back, if not in body bags, then with terrible injuries or PTSD, and often committing suicide.
Then Russia began a resurgence under Putin and his country’s oil production. The U.S. State Department became panicked that a new alliance might form between Russia and Germany, with Germany providing technology and Russia the oil and natural resources. A counterbalance to the U.S.??? That had to be stopped.
The way to stop it soon presented itself not just with the attempted “color revolution” in Ukraine, but especially with the rise of ISIL after Israel ordered President Ø to attack Syria. The already insane mass invasion of Europe by Afro-Asiatics was ramped up by the U.S. into a “morality play” by which the European elites, dependent on paranoia about “racism,” were forced to accept even greater hordes of swarthy parasites. This policy has been termed “coercive engineered migration,” one whose aim is to destabilize Europe and especially Germany, thereby preventing it from any further rapprochement with Russia.
Germany, and hence Europe, are about to enter serious economic decline as a result of this move by the U.S. and its accomplice, Turkey. In addition, the current Washington regime is sending symbolic amounts of forces and weaponry to the countries between Germany and Russia, in order further to seal them off from one another and prevent any bilateral agreements of any kind between the two. The primary tool used by the U.S. in all of this is the Christian-brainwashed madwoman currently on the German throne, Angela Merkel, daughter of a Lutheran pastor.
Europe is now defeated, even though it does not yet know it, since all of the media hype about the recent Friday the thirteenth is distracting it from reality. The Euro-elites are all warning about “racism” and “xenophobia,” which they will guard against using long prison sentences and high fines for any Whites who voice opposition to being drowned by ThirdWorld sludge.
Russia is suffering greatly from the American policies isolating it, although Putin is doing his best with the wiggle room still available to him. In fact, he may actually succeed in preserving the Syrian regime regardless of the Israeli-dictated American war on it. Despite meaningless bluster by Republican presidential candidates about bombing ISIL into the Stone Age, additional expensive ordinance blowing up the desert landscape is not going to have any effect on Mohammedan mentality in the region. It will only cause the remaining Syrian population to invade and destroy Germany, leaving Syria itself to Assad and his Russian and Iranian supporters.
All of this ignores the fact that the U.S. is in serious economic decline, with its White population under unremitting attack from a hate-filled, anti-Caucasian Negro presidency and its academic and media fellow travelers, Demonic Partiers all. In the end, the result will be a permanent Great Depression and poverty, with only the international oligarchs and their friends in international crime running whatever is left.
bug on Thu, 19th Nov 2015 6:06 am
But in 14 months, thee, the demon black guy is gone.
Is not the trump a new savior?
Or is whitey Clinton going to lead us down a path of doom?
Davy on Thu, 19th Nov 2015 6:26 am
Good question Bug. If you remember back a few years Obama was a burst of freshness for positive change. The guy is smart compared to what we see on the presidential debate stage today. We are really going to see some theater when the next prez takes office. It is not like we don’t have enough global problems then throw in US political theater of comedy that could very well be the last tragedy of modern man. It is possible the next president will be so overwhelmed with so many issues that nothing will become of their presidency. That is my sad hope.
bug on Thu, 19th Nov 2015 6:44 am
Davy, it will be the same as it has since
George Washington, one team will say the other is mean, bad, evil, and the worse president ever. Hate to use Godwins Law, but whoever wins this booby prize, the other side will call him/her “worse than Hitler”. That is my sad reality.
claman on Thu, 19th Nov 2015 7:40 am
Theedrich, You have to explain this a little further:
“Then Russia began a resurgence under Putin and his country’s oil production. The U.S. State Department became panicked that a new alliance might form between Russia and Germany, with Germany providing technology and Russia the oil and natural resources. A counterbalance to the U.S.??? That had to be stopped.”
I have always seen Europe and the US as two complementary powers on the global scene, rather than competing each other. After the fall of the USSR I don’t see Russia as a great threat to western Europe, except for what I would call resonable adjustments to their western borders in Ukrania.
Now what do you mean with “A counterbalance to the U.S.???.”
I think that Europe, and in the long run Russia too, have a common interests with America, and that they basically are following that line.
Why wouldn’t the US like to see a strong Europe including Russia ?
Welch on Thu, 19th Nov 2015 5:44 pm
The US and NATO created and funded ISIS. What a bunch of sick bullshit going on. NATO doesn’t give a rats ass about the millions their imperialist adventures have killed in N Africa, Iraq, Syria, etc etc. And really, neither do most of us. Brown people over there do not matter.I don’t trust a f-ing thing that is fed to us through the MSM.
theedrich on Fri, 20th Nov 2015 2:36 am
Claman, the U.S. regards Europe as its slave. No European nation dares fall out of line. The State Department and the Pentagon, together with the multibillionaires who bribe our politicians, are interested solely in complete global domination. The idea of a German-Russian alliance is anathema to them all. The idea of complementarity between America and Europe is an illusion. Read Stratfor. Putin detests the U.S. Moreover, Germany gets its natural gas from Russia through the Northstream pipeline routed on the Baltic seabed around Polish territory in order to avoid the Poles from interfering with it at the behest of the U.S. or to require exorbitant fees of passage. Germany cannot depend on the U.S. for vital materials, but is subjugated beneath the American boot and must pretend to worship her master. Das ist Tatsache.
Davy on Fri, 20th Nov 2015 6:57 am
Thee, if life could only be so simple. I think you are living too much in a surreal world of fiction and non-fiction. Try stepping out and wipe your brain clean then step back in a month or two later. Go offline for a month. Get out of your normal routine. Be someone else for a time. I have done this and it is amazing how it changes you. Just some friendly advice. I am sure you will give me some back.
Our egos are powerful and deceptive. We are intoxicated by them and they kill us with their deceptions. I am considering another spiritual offline event. I am already in nature and away from direct civilization. Maybe after the holidays. I have not been too motivated to do a spiritual retreat because collapse will force that upon me soon enough. I am considering it again as training for when that day comes. I have an expedition wall tent I may set up. It has a small wood stove. Maybe I will go off for two weeks after the holidays.
theedrich on Fri, 20th Nov 2015 6:11 pm
I’m not sure what you’re smoking, Davy. Are you communing with nature spirits? I prefer paying attention to bombs, migrations coerced by the U.S., and political ideologues as well as purchased politicians. I doubt living in a tent in the wilderness is going to help provide insight into the surreal world we are now entering.
Davy on Fri, 20th Nov 2015 6:33 pm
Thee, just recommending a little break from the routine of the deadly serious thinking you do. You can always return to it after a retreat into nature. Try it Thee you might like it. BTW, no drugs, alcohol, or tobacco of any kind for 10 years for this homie. I get high off nature.