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BumRushDaShow

(142,934 posts) Sun Sep 29, 2024, 12:16 PM Sep 29

U.S. airstrikes on Syria kill 37 militants affiliated with extremist groups

Source: ABC News/AP

September 29, 2024, 7:20 AM

BEIRUT -- In Syria, 37 militants affiliated to the extremist Islamic State group and an al-Qaeda-linked group were killed in two strikes, the United States military said Sunday.

Two of the dead were senior militants, it said.

U.S. Central Command said it struck northwestern Syria on Tuesday, targeting a senior militant from the al-Qaeda-linked Hurras al-Deen group and eight others. They say he was responsible for overseeing military operations.

They also announced a strike from earlier this month on Sept. 16, where they conducted a “large-scale airstrike” on an IS training camp in a remote undisclosed location in central Syria. That attack killed 28 militants, including “at least four Syrian leaders.”

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/us-airstrikes-syria-kill-37-militants-affiliated-extremist-114325714

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U.S. airstrikes on Syria kill 37 militants affiliated with extremist groups (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Sep 29 OP

So we are now doing air strikes in Syria again? James48 Sep 29 #1

I remember seeing some flow chart a bunch of years ago BumRushDaShow Sep 29 #2

That's how hierarchies work. Igel Sep 29 #3

This doesn't help after Lebanon MuchBetterThanThis Sep 29 #4

This message was self-deleted by its author MarineCombatEngineer Sep 29 #5

they're attacking ISIL-associated groups maxsolomon Sep 30 #7

a never ending war, it seems... bahboo Sep 29 #6

James48

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1. So we are now doing air strikes in Syria again?

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sun Sep 29, 2024, 12:39 PM

Sep 29

I thought we knocked out all their leaders.

It’s a never ending task.

BumRushDaShow

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2. I remember seeing some flow chart a bunch of years ago

Reply to James48 (Reply #1)

Sun Sep 29, 2024, 01:09 PM

Sep 29

which sort of illustrated why we were always "taking out the 2nd in command" and rarely the "head".

I.e., they don't operate through a strict hierarchical/pyramid structure but through one that is more "flat".

I think some of this was a result of what was happening earlier this year with attacks on our bases in Iraq (and Syria, and even Jordan).

We did similar almost a year ago - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67236438

Igel

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3. That's how hierarchies work.

Reply to James48 (Reply #1)

Sun Sep 29, 2024, 01:59 PM

Sep 29

You start counting from the top.

Take out the top 5, and you start counting from the new top.

As long as there's a hierarchy--meaning "as long as there's the organization"--there'll be something like a "top". Maybe 5 people tied for #1 (or #5, if you prefer), but there's still a kind of top. The idea is to make the hierarchy--the organization--go away; perhaps kill them all or, more likely, cause it to atrophy from disinterest and desuetude and simply dissolve.