Iraq pilots mistakenly drop supplies, not bombs, on ISIS

[Feeding the Abscess]

http://crooksandliars.com/2014/10/iraq-pilots-mistakenly-drop-supplies-not

Maybe I'm just hopped up on coffee before my workout, but I can't for the life of me stop laughing. I haven't read something this hilarious in at least a couple of days. gg overlords! You've amused me for a few hours.

[puppetmaster]

seriously.....cmon not even the same delivery method.

[JK/SEA]

'intervention' at its finest.

[acptulsa]

Mother's Milk. If they didn't create ISI_ then why are they breast-feeding it?

Barry Goldwater asked, 'Why Not Victory?' I think, over the last fifty years, we have had ample time to figure out the generals' rationale. Why not victory? Because job security, that's why. For millenia generals who actually did a good job put themselves out of work. No wonder we get nothing more credible than a Westmoreland today.

See, if Don King had this much foresight--if he had sense enough to tell fighters, 'Try to make your opponent look better than he is. Try to make this prize fight last longer than two minutes,' he might not have destroyed the sport of boxing the way he did.

'Mistakenly.' Yeah, mistakes have been made. But I cannot be made to believe this is one of them. Well, maybe the part where this was discovered and they were forced to make excuses for it...

[thoughtomator]

Ah another lame excuse for giving US arms and armaments to our enemy of the moment.

At some point only an exceedingly stupid or ignorant person will believe there's anything truthful about this latest military adventure.

[devil21]

Mistakenly. Yeah ok, if you believe that I got a bridge for sale.

[presence]

Members of Islamic State recently received an unexpected surprise from the Iraqi military's inexperienced pilots: an airdrop of food, water and ammunition.
http://crooksandliars.com/2014/10/iraq-pilots-mistakenly-drop-supplies-not

They at least knew to use parachutes

http://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2014/08/11/report-u-s-humanitarian-aid-airdropped-to-yazidis-lacked-parachutes-exploded-on-impact/


I was on board an Iraqi Army helicopter, and watched as hundreds of refugees ran towards it to receive one of the few deliveries of aid to make it to the mountain. The helicopter dropped water and food from its open gun bays to them as they waited below. General Ahmed Ithwany, who led the mission, told me: “It is death valley. Up to 70 per cent of them are dead.”
Two American aid flights have also made it to the mountain, where they have dropped off more than 36,000 meals and 7,000 gallons of drinking water to help the refugees, and last night two RAF C-130 transport planes were also on the way.
However, Iraqi officials said that much of the US aid had been “useless” because it was dropped from 15,000ft without parachutes and exploded on impact.

[idiom]

10 Tonnes of Condoms?

I could support that.

Large condoms marked small for that extra kick.

[phill4paul]

http://blogs.uoregon.edu/survival/files/2012/04/800foodnotbombs.jpg

[Jackie Moon]

seriously.....cmon not even the same delivery method.

The title of the article is a little misleading... making it sound like they meant to drop bombs but instead dropped supplies.

They were trying to deliver supplies to Iraqi soldiers but screwed up and dropped them in the wrong spot.

[puppetmaster]

The title of the article is a little misleading... making it sound like they meant to drop bombs but instead dropped supplies.

They were trying to deliver supplies to Iraqi soldiers but screwed up and dropped them in the wrong spot.

Ahhhh ok

[ClydeCoulter]

"Love thine enemies"?

[idiom]

The title of the article is a little misleading... making it sound like they meant to drop bombs but instead dropped supplies.

They were trying to deliver supplies to Iraqi soldiers but screwed up and dropped them in the wrong spot.

To be fair, Obama made it sound like they would be dropping bombs and not supplies.

[Origanalist]

http://crooksandliars.com/2014/10/iraq-pilots-mistakenly-drop-supplies-not

Maybe I'm just hopped up on coffee before my workout, but I can't for the life of me stop laughing. I haven't read something this hilarious in at least a couple of days. gg overlords! You've amused me for a few hours.

I heard that today on the radio and had the same reaction, just another day in the luniverse.

[Weston White]

Because in all of their millions of duckets in training, and years gone by, they had forgotten to include a course in basic map reading and unit identification. Sure, sure.

Nope, just another case of the government being so vastly inept they could not possibly come up with the concept of an B-2, Blackbird, F-117, Apache, F-22, nukes, railguns, submarines, space drones, HAARP, Facebook, Google, etc., etc., etc. Right...

[idiom]

Because in all of their millions of duckets in training, and years gone by, they had forgotten to include a course in basic map reading and unit identification. Sure, sure.

Nope, just another case of the government being so vastly inept they could not possibly come up with the concept of an B-2, Blackbird, F-117, Apache, F-22, nukes, railguns, submarines, space drones, HAARP, Facebook, Google, etc., etc., etc. Right...

Generally speaking none of those were built by the government. Even in soviet Russia, all the good stuff came from private operations.

[HOLLYWOOD]

Nothing is by accident... Now the Targets/Bombing Syrian industry? lol... yeah, GPS guided aircraft and weapons only malfunction when they are intentionally configured for the "Authorized coordinates". Now they're aiding and abetting terrorists/terrorism/crimes against humanity by the same NATO/Gulf States/House of Saud backed Salafi/Wahabi?

Here's the latest result of terror what happen in the Syrian government controlled city of Homs


41 children killed in Syria school bombing
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A twin bomb attack on a primary school in the government-controlled city of Homs underlines fears about security
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Photo reportedly shows Syrian security forces inspecting site of car bomb explosion outside a school
in Homs Oct. 1, 2014 (AFP/HO/Sana)

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Two car bombs exploded in the central Syrian city of Homs on Wednesday afternoon near a school killing 48 people including 41 children.

The explosions took place as children were leaving school at the end of classes on Wednesday in a neighbourhood dominated by minority Alawites, a Shiite offshoot sect that President Bashar al-Assad belongs to.

The first blast was from a car bomb and was detonated in front of the Ekrimah primary school, followed minutes later by a suicide bomber who drove by and detonated his vehicle, state television reported.

It was the deadliest strike to hit the government-controlled area in over a year.

Footage from the aftermath of the attack shows parents screaming and looking for their children amid scattered schoolbags and blood on the ground as a car burns nearby. In another clip, a man pulls the limp body of a young girl in a red dress covered in dust from the rubble, as blood trickles down her face.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility.

Homs was once dubbed "the capital of the revolution" against Assad. Most of the city, including the shelled-out ruins of the Old Town, has returned to the control of Assad's government after two years of bombardment and siege. Since re-capturing the city, Syrian forces have struggled to secure it. The district has been targeted more than once before, including on 19 June, when at least six people were killed in a car bomb attack.
“Homs is a city that is under the complete control of the regime who won the battle there months ago and yet you still find that the pro-regime communities are vulnerable to spectacular terrorist attacks," said Aboud Dandachi, an IT worker from Homs who spoke to Middle East Eye via Skype from Istanbul.
“The problem is that a lot of the checkpoints in and around the city are controlled by “Shabiha” so-called pro-government militias some of whom are easily bribed. I imagine that’s how the explosives for this attack were smuggled in.”

Homs, a strategic city in central Syria close to the border with Lebanon, has been vital to the government and the rebels since the uprising broke out in 2011. The city has for years served as a kind of administrative capital as well as a hub through which major roads that crisscross Syria feed into.

For the regime, control of Homs is a matter of life and death,” said Dandachi. “It is the gateway to cities across the country, Syria’s jugular vein. The regime would sacrifice huge chunks of Syria so long as it controls Homs. That is where the revolution should have succeeded.”

[TheTexan]

Maybe it wasn't a mistake.. maybe the pilots were Islamic State In Iraq??!!

[Jackie Moon]

Maybe it wasn't a mistake.. maybe the pilots were Islamic State In Iraq??!!

Maybe... there's a chance the pilots did it on purpose. Or the guy that gave them the drop coordinates.

But I think it's also reasonable to believe that the Iraqi Air Force's young, inexperienced pilots could make a mistake.

Especially if they dropped supplies with parachutes from a higher altitude, and the intended Iraqi soldiers were located near the ISIS fighters - it's not difficult to see how the supplies could go off course or a slight screw up in timing could result in them landing on the wrong side of the lines.

[ChristianAnarchist]

Mistakenly. Yeah ok, if you believe that I got a bridge for sale.

How much?? I might be able to use a bridge if I get a good enough deal. Mind you I'm a tough sell...

[ChristianAnarchist]

I heard that today on the radio and had the same reaction, just another day in the luniverse.

LUNIVERSE !!! That's hilarious. Never heard that before but I'm going to remember it for sure...

[devil21]

How much?? I might be able to use a bridge if I get a good enough deal. Mind you I'm a tough sell...

It's in Syria, on a main road from Damascus to a Syrian military base. Centrally located. Priced to sell asap! Motivated seller!

[enhanced_deficit]

Mistakenly. Yeah ok, if you believe that I got a bridge for sale.

This.


Ask founders of RM 1.0 .