Consolidated Syria Conflict Thread

[Bison]

ISIS-K is the Afghanistan branch.

http://www.centcom.mil/MEDIA/PRESS-RELEASES/Press-Release-View/Article/1151115/us-forces-targets-destroys-isis-k-stronghold/

[Staggerwing]

The Taliban isn't exactly a monolithic corporate structure. Many of it's more outspoken pledges have decided that they need to kick more ass so they are defecting over to IS-Hole.

[OJsDad]

The cost of that single bomb. 

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/heres-how-much-the-mother-of-all-bombs-costs/ar-BBzOz7P?li=AA4Zpp&ocid=spartanntp

The United States Defense Department likes to show off. After proving it can move with the quick strike capability of a cobra as it did when it launched 59 tomahawk missiles at a Syrian airfield, the Pentagon on Thursday decided to up the ante by showing its muscle. 

They dropped the largest non-nuclear bomb against ISIS in the Nangarhar Province in Afghanistan. The GBU-43B known as the Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) or the Mother of All Bombs, is a 20,000-pound monster. It took $314 million to develop and has a unit cost of $16 million. 

[bayonetbrant]

Drop MOAB, or repair Flint, MI's water system.....  3 times

[mirth]

Drop MOAB, or repair Flint, MI's water system.....  3 times

Sure. Cause those things EQ out.

[bayonetbrant]

Drop MOAB, or repair Flint, MI's water system.....  3 times

Sure. Cause those things EQ out.

just providing a cost comparison - I know the dollars are from totally different places.

[Toonces]

Drop MOAB, or repair Flint, MI's water system.....  3 times

Get a haircut, hippie.

[mirth]

Drop MOAB, or repair Flint, MI's water system.....  3 times

Get a haircut, hippie.

Says Spicoli

[bayonetbrant]

Drop MOAB, or repair Flint, MI's water system.....  3 times

Get a haircut, hippie.

funny you should mention that...  I just did back on Sunday.  I needed it, too; my bangs were down to my chin, and no I'm not exaggerating.
I think I lost 4 pounds, just in hair.

Says Spicoli

zing

[mirth]

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/9491/assad-moves-the-bulk-of-his-air-power-to-russias-air-base-in-syria

[Sir Slash]

It's hard to hear what Assad says when his lips are planted so securely between Putin's butt-cheeks.  L:-)

[Gusington]

This s sorta like when Saddam Hussein flew most of the Iraqi Air Force to his good buddies in...Iran.

[Staggerwing]

I don't think Saddam actually meant for that. He and Iran were not exactly BFFs.

The call was probably made in the cockpit right after take-off, Belenko-style

[mirth]

This is an earlier piece written prior to the US cruise missile strikes.

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/9039/striking-assad-in-retaliation-for-gas-attack-is-a-horrible-idea?iid=sr-link3

[Gusington]

Story floating around the BBC that a Russian Marine major has been killed in an attack on his garrison in Syria.