US planes deliver new blows to the positions of the "Islamic State" in Iraq. The US Congress does not exclude ground operations.

The United States Armed Forces launched another series of airstrikes on IS positions in the area of ​​the largest dam in Iraq in the suburbs of Mosul in the northern part of the country, reports RIA News with a link to the website of the US Armed Forces.

The information posted on the website states that "during the action undertaken by the American Air Force, three combat vehicles belonging to the militants were destroyed, an anti-aircraft gun installed on one of the vehicles, and one checkpoint." The fighter and attack aircraft involved in this operation "safely left the bombed area shortly after the raid."

According to AFP reports on Sunday, “the Kurdish Peshmerga paramilitaries supported by aviation The United States managed to recapture a dam near the city of Mosul from the Islamic State militants. The dam was in the hands of extremists for about 10 days.

“Losing control of the Mosul Dam would endanger the lives of large numbers of civilians, as well as American citizens and facilities, including the US Embassy in Baghdad ... These bombings will be time and territorially limited. They are carried out strictly under the coordination and at the request of the Iraqi government, "Reuters quoted the White House as saying.

The Mosul Dam (formerly named after Saddam Hussein) was erected in 1983 and put into operation in 1986. It is located 50 km upstream of the city with the same name of 2 million. According to experts, the destruction of the dam will lead to the flooding of large areas and, practically, instant death of about 500 thousand people.

Meanwhile, an influential politician, Congressman Eliot Engel, said yesterday that the United States may have to conduct a ground operation against the Islamists in Iraq.

"Ultimately, we may carry out a military operation there."Engel told The Hil. According to the politician, it is not that he really wants to, but "there is no simple choice."

Engel also supported the initiative of the national coalition of Syria, which appealed to the world community with a request "to launch air strikes on the positions of IS militants in Syria."

"I believe that we should consider this possibility, because this is one war."- said the congressman.

Comments

[mig31]

Well, just a war, anyway, the State Department would continue to "carry democracy" to the masses ...

[Giant thought]

Not everything goes as we would like the mattress toppers. Islamic radicals are completely out of control, so mattress toppers are again entering Iraq, otherwise Iraqi oil may no longer flow to America.

[volot-voin]

Quote: Thought Giant

Not everything goes as we would like the mattress toppers. Islamic radicals are completely out of control, so mattress toppers are again entering Iraq, otherwise Iraqi oil may no longer flow to America.

It looks like the United States will not be able to drop oil prices, the help came unexpectedly from an unexpected direction.

[voyaka uh]

It doesn't flow to America anyway. American companies
have not received a single deposit in Iraq since
war 2003

[0255]

Quote: voyaka uh

It doesn't flow to America anyway. American companies
have not received a single deposit in Iraq since
war 2003

did they tell you on CNN or the BBC? The Americans are now protecting only oil rigs from ISIS. And if Saddam Hussein did not decide to abandon payments for oil in dollars, maybe he would still live

[voyaka uh]

The tenders were won by the British and the Chinese.
The Americans flew by.

[Koloradovatnik]

It looks like the United States is getting bogged down in Iraq for a long time. It all started in Vietnam the same way.

[volot-voin]

Quote: Colorado

It looks like the United States is getting bogged down in Iraq for a long time. It all started in Vietnam the same way.

It can begin to supply the Islamists in Iraq with MANPADS, unofficially, so that life would not seem like a paradise to the United States. let them fall ...

[Bayonet]

Quote: volot-voin

May start supplying Islamists in Iraq with MANPADS

Turn on the brain at least sometimes! Want to help create the World Caliphate ???

[volot-voin]

Quote: Bayonet

Turn on the brain at least sometimes! Want to help create the World Caliphate ???

The Americans will not allow them to win, but for the mattress to be stuck there for a long time, it would be profitable and expedient.

[Koloradovatnik]

Quote: volot-voin

It can begin to supply the Islamists in Iraq with MANPADS, unofficially, so that life would not seem like a paradise to the United States. let them fall ...

And then the Islamists in Dagestan will begin to shoot down Russian civilian and military aircraft with the same MANPADS. You need to think not with a jop, but with your head.

[theadenter]

Civilian MANPADS will not take.

[volot-voin]

Quote: Colorado

And then the Islamists in Dagestan will begin to shoot down Russian civilian and military aircraft with the same MANPADS.

For the Dagestani and Chechen terrorists, the MANPADS will not hesitate to put the mattress, and there is no need to drag it out of Iraq. For example, Syrian militants have been pumped up with weapons for a long time, and even now they do not refuse. As well as ukrop among other things.
The wisest war, war by someone else's hands. Let the United States fight the Islamic state.
The minus question is, why are the Islamists better or worse than mattress mats?
Islamists have:
1. There is no American vomit - tolerance, propaganda of sodomy, democratic values.
2. There are no high science-intensive technologies (this is from the shaitan, a sin).
3. They do not manufacture weapons themselves. If none of the interested parties supplies, then the fight will be primitive.
Usually they are a tool in the hands of the world elite, so in my opinion the United States is much more dangerous. The US is the cause, they are the effect.

[Past_ Crocodile]

1. In the United States, they are just going to legalize pedophilia and sodomy, and in Islam, love for boys is not considered shameful, their poets wrote about it, and girls are married off at eight years old.
2. They not only have no technology, they consider all books except the Qur'an to be a source of impurity.
3. They use the weapons they have to kill children and women (although it is forbidden in the Koran), if your family dies, will you care about the Bulava or the knife?
Therefore, you are a minus. BAYONET is right - turn on your head.

[Past_ Crocodile]

Maybe not even "later", but first of all.

[armageddon]

Hmm ... I agree with you !!! Only Iraq is not Vietnam ... With all due respect to the Vietnamese !!! The consequences will be IMMEDIBLE !!!

[asar]

Meanwhile, an influential politician, Congressman Eliot Engel, said yesterday that the United States may have to conduct a ground operation against the Islamists in Iraq.

And it will flow, first a stream then a river - a load of "200"! Are you strong in the "ground operation", Yankes ?!

[BYV]

Well, you perfectly understand what kind of a ground operation it will be: first, everything will be plowed up with aviation and artillery, then the infantry will move neatly with the support of armored vehicles. At the slightest stirring, the offensive will stop, they will again bomb and fire. Along the way, they will destroy all settlements and infrastructure along the road to rubbish, destroy several hundred Islamists and several thousand civilians, and so on ...

[222222]

On 17 August, U.S. aircraft launched 14 strikes conducted on Sunday in Iraq.
Damaged or destroyed 10 armored vehicles, 7 Hummers, 2 armored personnel carriers, 1 checkpoint. In the area of ​​the Mosul dam.
Later, an airstrike was delivered to the same area. 3 armored vehicles destroyed. One AA gun per vehicle, 1 checkpoint and IED emplacement.
On August 16, 9 strikes were inflicted - The nine airstrikes conducted thus far destroyed or damaged four armored personnel carriers, seven armed vehicles, two Humvees and an armored vehicle.
US Department of Defense calls former charges "ISIL terrorists in Iraq"
(from messages from the US Department of Defense)
..the situation map for August 16-17
Iraq Situation Report: August 16-17, 2014
http://www.understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/2014-08-17%20Situation%20Rep
ort.pdf

[Civil]

Friends of the USA- the Sudites finance the Caliphate, what an irony)))

[Su24]

Engel also supported the initiative of the national coalition of Syria, which appealed to the world community with a request "to launch air strikes on the positions of IS militants in Syria."

This is where the dog is buried. They want to bomb Syria again.

[asar]

They will break their teeth about Syria!

[yushch]

The more these scum are thrashed, the less they will return to Syria.

[Su24]

Quote: yushch

The more these scum are thrashed, the less they will return to Syria.

They will not thrash them too much. ISIS is an American project designed to block Iranian-Shiite influence in Iraq.

[kimanas]

Well, where would the Yankees release their poisonous steam?

[asar]

Well, where would the Yankees release their poisonous steam

Let them do fitness at home, to sweat! All the nonsense and "disappear"!

[Wiruz]

That would be useful for Syria S-300. I hope that the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation is cunning about their disposal. Back in that year, Assad said that the first batch had already been delivered to Syria and was on alert. I want to believe him

[MAXIMUS]

Quote: Wiruz

That would be useful for Syria S-300. I hope that the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation is cunning about their disposal. Back in that year, Assad said that the first batch had already been delivered to Syria and was on alert. I want to believe him

You are hoping correctly. No decision has been made.

ZHUKOVSKY (Moscow region), August 15. (ARMS-TASS). The S-300 complex manufactured for Syria can be offered to other foreign customers. The decision to dispose of the product was not made, Vyacheslav Dzirkaln, deputy head of the Almaz-Antey Air Defense Concern, said at the Oboronexpo-2014 exhibition today.

"The decision has not yet been made. The complex has already been manufactured, its fate has not yet been determined," Dzirkaln said. At the same time, the deputy head of the concern did not rule out that this complex could eventually be offered to other foreign customers.

Dzirkaln stressed that the words of the Deputy Head of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation Konstantin Biryulin, spread on Monday by a number of media outlets, were misinterpreted by journalists. "He (Biryulin) did not make an affirmative statement that the complex would be necessarily disposed of," the deputy director general of the ITAR-TASS company was quoted as saying.

According to Dzirkaln, if a decision is made to supply this complex to another customer, it is not planned to change the complete set of the finished product. "This is an export option, and if such a decision is made, it would be reasonable to offer this complex to our partners without additions and modifications," he explained.

[Magic archer]

As soon as the news passed that oil was found on the territory of Kurdistan, as soon as the Americans decided to bomb the Ishil! An interesting parallel!

[Wiruz]

US jets strike new attacks on Islamic State positions in Iraq

I gave birth to you, I will kill you

[RUSS]

US planes deliver new blows to the positions of the "Islamic State" in Iraq. The US Congress does not exclude ground operations.

Come on, come on Yankee !!! Like air you need a small victorious one, so what time on your own rake!

[Edvagan]

I would like the Americans to get bogged down in Iraq again. They made this mess, now let them clean it up, and it will be easier for us, less attention.

[moody fin]

overthrew the dictator Hussein ... and democracy began ... went in the wrong direction, it is necessary to bring in troops and fix it ..

[MSA]

Let him suffocate in his own created wars.

[navara399]

Let them fight ISIS, clean up a little after themselves. And then it’s always for everyone to disentangle them.

[Lenar]

It seems that they are bombing defenseless "Islamic states" out of anger towards the Russian Federation.

[Shurale]

As the saying goes: "I gave birth to you - I will kill you ..."

[Mama_Cholli]

How many wars the United States has fought in the last 25 years. And they still dare to claim that they are a civilized democratic country? And everyone believes in it ...

[Roman 1977]

And what is there to disassemble how it turns out like this:
1. US military-industrial complex received contracts for the supply of weapons to Iraqis
2. US military-industrial complex received contracts for the supply of weapons to Syrian terrorists
3. Iraqis leaked weapons to Syrian terrorists
4. US military-industrial complex received contracts for the supply of ammunition for the destruction of weapons of Syrian terrorists
5. Destruction of American ammunition, American howitzers delivered to Iraqis and captured by Syrian terrorists.
6. Triple PROFIT American MIC !!!

By the way, I will note that the Americans provide air support not on the Shiite front, where Iran and Russia are involved, but in the north, the Kurds have one more "card" that we missed. Outright ...

[Bayonet]

Don't show the second line only to Abama!

[Bayonet]

In this case, the Americans are doing a good deed, this infection must be removed by the whole world! Maybe some of the commentators here want to live in the World Caliphate? So the heads will cut you off first - to the unfaithful!

[Magic archer]

Dear! Do you think the Americans started bombing Ishil only for political and religious reasons ?!

[voyaka uh]

Oil has been pumped in Iraqi Kurdistan since 1934.
Non-American companies were and are engaged in mining.
When the Americans invaded Iraq in 2003 the
production tenders. American companies have lost them.

[0255]

Quote: voyaka uh

Oil has been pumped in Iraqi Kurdistan since 1934.
Non-American companies were and are engaged in mining.
When the Americans invaded Iraq in 2003 the
production tenders. American companies have lost them.

And why do you think the Americans bombed Iraq? Do you think that Bush was really looking for chemical weapons there?

[volot-voin]

Quote: Bayonet

Maybe some of the commentators here want to live in the World Caliphate?

For Russia, the Americans have never done or will do anything good. However, I do not have much love for Islamists. But whoever is at war with the United States, whoever it is, is doing a good deed. So let these wonderful world forces continue to neutralize each other for a longer time.

[padded jacket]

Interesting opinion:

[shower]

Maybe in any century on mutually beneficial unite with striped ones. They are leaving Syria alone, and we are helping Assad in his fight against the radical insurgents. And we don’t bother them when they are chasing the same radicals in Iraq.

[volot-voin]

Quote: schauer

They are leaving Syria alone, and we are helping Assad in his fight against the radical insurgents.

Assad needs help, of course. But in Iraq, let them fight with their offspring, and preferably longer.

[Karasik]

The USA is the most aggressive state on our planet. They are the only ones in history to use nuclear weapons, they and only they unleash all wars (from small "color" revolutions to world wars). They are a huge boil on the body of our planet. The boil must be operated on.

[umka_]

The Americans are slowly but approaching their dream of unleashing as many wars as possible. It is necessary to limit them somehow more strongly in this.

[Roman 11]

Quote: umka_

It is necessary to limit them somehow more strongly in this.

On the contrary ....... help !! How many rifles can you sell to resistance fighters? For example, in Iraq, a lot of oil is controlled by the opposition, and that's barter!

[Babai34rus]

loot should be written off, because the national debt is 17 trillion dollars

[el.krokodil]

any amerskaya aggression-maintaining the dollar .. where they fight there is no longer their own currency, but there is a dollar .. and therefore the worse the dollar, the more it is necessary to fight, cheap and angry .. no need to puzzle how to do the same peacefully ..

[Roman 11]

Great news. As soon as they get into Iraq (parallel with the 2nd southern cauldron), African Americans can more actively defend their rights and freedoms. And there you look and they will need RPG, such a thing ........ you just have to start.

[Major Yurik]

Quote: asar

They will break their teeth about Syria!

Yes, we signed for Syria, and rightly so. Now if the aircraft carriers get very close to its shores, our nuclear submarine will have to surface inside the triple ring of guarding the aircraft carrier mattress, and ask what time it is. In the USSR, our naval commanders joked like that.

[Maks-80]

God willing it will be possible to drag mattress toppers into another protracted war in the Middle East

[Roman 11]

Something today, a lot of p. Endosyatiny from nasty holes got out on the site. This is how they quietly occupy)

[Stinger]

"These blockheads will be destroyed by their own technology. They think that the war can be won by bombing alone ..." (The film "17 Moments of Spring", the words of a German general, in a conversation with Stirlitz in a train compartment.) It is still relevant today.

[komrad.tyorckin]

I am waiting for the news about the downed American planes!