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Iraq
US jets strike ISIL militants in Iraq
2014-08-21
[Iran Press TV] The United States says it has conducted at least 14 Arclight airstrikes against ISIL Takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
 gunnies in northern Iraq over the past 24 hours.

US defense officials in Washington said on Wednesday the Arclight airstrikes were conducted in areas where a US air campaign has targeted ISIL forces who are threatening civilian refugees and the Kurdish regional capital Erbil.

The Arclight airstrikes came after ISIL released a gruesome video Tuesday showing US journalist James Foley being beheaded by krazed killers.

The video shows a black-masked ISIL krazed killer beheading Foley in retaliation for US Arclight airstrikes against the group in Iraq. The video also warned that the group would slay kidnapped American journalist Steven Sotloff if the US president did not halt the Arclight airstrikes.

However,
a woman is only as old as she admits...
 President Barack Obama
I am not a dictator!...
said that the US will continue to do what it must do to protect Americans.

"When people harm Americans anywhere, we do what's necessary to see that justice is done and we act against ISIL standing alongside others," Obama said.

ISIL, which controls parts of Syria, sent its fighters into neighboring Iraq in June and quickly seized large swaths of territory straddling the border between the two countries.

On Thursday, US counterterrorism officials told news hounds that new strategies are urgently needed to counter the surging ISIL threat.

"We're seeing an expansion of its external terrorist ambitions," one US counterterrorism official said. "As its capabilities grow, it has attracted thousands of foreign Death Eaters — some of whom are going home to start cells. As it carves out territory [in Iraq], it wants to go beyond that and do attacks outside."
An Nahar adds:
Since Tuesday, U.S. drones and fighter jets destroyed or damaged six IS Humvees, three sites for improvised bombs, one mortar tube and two armed trucks, U.S. Central Command said.

The latest air raids brought to 84 the number conducted since August 8. Of those, 51 were in support of Iraqi forces near djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
 dam, now under the control of Iraqi and Kurdish security forces.

The command said the latest strikes served to "further expand" Iraqi and Kurdish control of the area.

"These strikes were conducted under authority to support Iraqi security forces and Kurdish defense force operations, as well as to protect critical infrastructure, U.S. personnel and facilities, and support humanitarian efforts," it added.
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