Remind me who the terrorists are

[Legion Troll]

IS O-BOMB-YA TRYING TO HELP ISIS RECRUIT MORE FIGHTERS?​

"Roof knocking" is a controversial Israeli military practice used in the Gaza Strip. It works on a simple logic designed to minimize civilian casualties. Occupants of a building are given a warning a few minutes before a military strike.

The first warning is generally a phone call. The second is a rocket.

The Israeli military has argued that the practice saves lives by giving occupants a chance to escape, but critics say the tactic creates confusion and can amount to psychological warfare.

This week, the United States announced that it had used the tactic in Iraq.

U.S. military officials told reporters on Tuesday that roof-knocking had been carried out during an operation on April 5 in the Iraqi city of Mosul. The United States was targeting a building that was housing a member of the Islamic State and about $150 million in funds for the extremist group, officials said. However, a woman and children also were found to be visiting the house, raising the possibility that noncombatants could be killed in a strike.

To warn the occupants of the house about the impending strike, a Hellfire missile was fired above the building to explode in mid-air, Air Force Maj. Gen. Peter Gersten said.

The tactic did not fulfill its goal: The woman ran back into the house before the second strike, which destroyed the building. Gersten said it was "very difficult for us to watch and it was within the final seconds of the actual impact."

Army Col. Steve Warren, a spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq and Syria, said it was the first time that the tactic had been used by the U.S. "It was a test to see if it worked. It didn't," Warren said.




https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/04/27/israels-controversial-roof-knocking-tactic-appears-in-iraq-and-this-time-its-the-u-s-doing-it/?tid=pm_world_pop_b

 

[moon]

"Roof knocking" is a controversial Israeli military practice used in the Gaza Strip. It works on a simple logic designed to minimize civilian casualties.

It's actually ethnic cleansing by telephone.

Imagine that some neoZionist creep rings you and tells you that your house is about to be bombed. You run with your kids and stuff and no bomb comes. When are you going to go back ?
Who made the fucking call anyway ? Some sick settler fascist ?
Further, is it OK to destroy somebody's home/ livelihood because you've made a phone call ? Does that make you some beacon of morality or a sadistic and brutal facist .

The US and the UK have taken many lessons from neoZionist fascism. It makes for a sad ,sad recognition of what Western governments have become in their aping of ethnic cleansers.

 

[Legion Troll]

The Israeli practice of roof-knocking goes back at least a decade. It was used widely during the 2008-2009 Operation Cast Lead.

There are reports that these warnings are sometimes not followed by strikes or that sometimes a strike is not preceded by a warning.

There is no way that firing a missile at a civilian home can constitute an effective ‘warning’.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/04/27/israels-controversial-roof-knocking-tactic-appears-in-iraq-and-this-time-its-the-u-s-doing-it/?tid=pm_world_pop_b

 

[moon]

I guess supporters of the practice will have no problem with accepting the good-naturedness of Palestinian extremists who telephone Israelis just prior to bombing their houses.

 

[Legion Troll]

What's disgusting is that the USA - the self-proclaimed model of freedom and democracy - is using a modified version of roof knocking, with Hellfire missiles ($115,000 a pop) instead of phone calls.

They admit that it didn't work, but they said they will do it again.

It's terrorism, pure and simple. O-BOMB-Ya is no better in this regard than Bush and Cheney were, it seems.

I wonder how the good people of West Virginia would react if Saudi Arabia was roof knocking in the hollers, and there was no mighty US military to make it stop.

You think some of them would take their Bushmasters and join a militia, and try to fight back?

 

[moon]

Droneman will soon be replaced by ThermoTrump or NucleoClinton. The US has a passion for electing moral degenerates.

 

[Legion Troll]

Droneman will soon be replaced by ThermoTrump or NucleoClinton. The US has a passion for electing moral degenerates.

I fear you are correct.

The irony is that the same people who whine about "Muslims" don't seem to understand that we're helping ISIS by doing reprehensible things to people who just want to live in their own country without being bombed at will.

Naturally some of them resent our lethal meddling in their internal affairs, and killing their friends and family (collateral damage, we call it) tips them right into the resistance movement.

It's ironic that the Americans yahoos who parade outside mosques holding rifles think that Arabs who resist foreign state-sponsored terror attacks are the bad guys.

 

[moon]

Well, they're not allowed to defend their own countries, surely ? How can you bring demahcracy to people who object to it ?

We killed a whole heap of Iraqis for their own good- but they never seem to learn.

 

[Legion Troll]

We have a bunch of 'Murcan "patriots" who are ready to take up arms against government oppression and tyranny (or so they say), and oddly, lots of them don't seem to understand that ISIS gets their fighters from people whose homes and families were blown apart by real government tyranny and oppression. And they blame "Islam" for terrorism. Go figure.

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

People who don't want to get blown up should try to avoid visiting the houses of terrorists.

 

[Legion Troll]

People who don't want to get blown up should try to avoid visiting the houses of terrorists.

Really?

You came within a whisker of being classified a terrorist yourself, I heard. The way I heard the story, you cried until the agents felt sorry for you and left.