Degrading and Destroying the Enemy

Whose intelligence are we using? First we blow up a grain silo and a gas plant  (although that may have been intentional and just passed off as an accident). Now we target a spot we "thought" had "bad dudes" but didn't.

U.S. airstrikes in Syria in September that were aimed at a faction of al Qaeda militants said to be plotting attacks against the West failed to deliver a decisive blow against them, U.S. officials familiar with the operation said late this week.

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"They thought people were there but they were not there," said one U.S. official familiar with the Obama administration's plan.

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The targets of the strikes were fighters from the Khorasan Group, which is how the U.S. government refers to a cell of al Qaeda veterans who had relocated to Syria from the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region.

At the time of the strikes, Pentagon spokesman Rear Adm. John Kirby said they were conducted to "disrupt imminent attack plotting against the United States and Western targets."

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In the aftermath of the strikes, U.S. officials have dialed back their warnings, saying that any planned attacks by Khorasan may not have been imminent.

  Reuters

Pre-crime police miss again. So all we can do is say, “Well, they weren’t really planning anything anyway.”

Christ, what bollocks.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.