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U.S. Launches New Wave of Airstrikes vs. ISIS
9/16/2014 10:18AM
The U.S. military said it conducted its first airstrike in Iraq as part of an expanded mission announced last week by President Obama.
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... as we mentioned the next wave of the U S campaign to neutralize the threat from Islamic militants in Iraq and Syria has begun ... joining us with more established a national security editor Bob Olian the joys is from our Washington bureau at ... two point drop ... morning ... so what distinguishes these bombing rise in the ones of the U S lowest against the sign group last month ... well ... so what happen yesterday was ... they may well be the purpose of the strike was a little bit different than the strikes over the last five weeks of man ... over the last five weeks what we've seen our ... app and strikes to want to to keep ... keep the militants away from ... from Erbil ... where where the US has some some ... people when assets ... and the up and also the key try to keep the militants away from ... Mount Sinjar ... and and and and and other places where they were threatening the non ... religious minorities ... now all the strikes with yesterday's ... first first go but the installment ... it has taken on ... a new mission which is to ... go after militants where they are fighting against Iraqi forces and that's what happened ... with the strike yesterday ... that represents the expanded part of the mission that the that the Obama announced last week ... what what what looking right now on fact and video of U S airstrikes ... are those of ... our exit from oldest oversupplied newest it is probably not the most recent ones ... so that bubble that was the most ... this is its recent ones but ... God it must resort yesterday India for people remember the geography of of of of Iraqi go west of Baghdad ... to around solution and then sell this this this is where ... the strike took place away from ... the Kurdish area this ... away from areas where the US had been sort of operating before and ... I'm now we're getting now are getting into areas where where where the Iraqi forces are trying to engage the Islamic State ... um so it so takes on it it's it's not it's not exactly a ... it was a single strike against a single ... militant position that was fighting Iraqi forces ... so not exactly a shock and awe ... um but ... the the ... the beginning of of the sort who stays at least in Iraq ... do we have any idea of the red success of the studs ... well in in terms of in terms of the success of a single strike I think the judges thus the success ... of we will we we should know more later um ... they been the main getting what they think is that my keepers twenty percent success rate on on the strikes which are very targeted very priest married very precise very ... limited in nature and and and and this one even though it represents expanded ... mission ... that the US is taking on how it was still limited strike ... with that with a strike against a single position to to ... to to eliminate the threat posed by militants to the Iraqi forces ... Bob thanks for much for your insights
9/16/2014 10:18AM
The U.S. military said it conducted its first airstrike in Iraq as part of an expanded mission announced last week by President Obama.
follow link to watch video
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Transcript -
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... as we mentioned the next wave of the U S campaign to neutralize the threat from Islamic militants in Iraq and Syria has begun ... joining us with more established a national security editor Bob Olian the joys is from our Washington bureau at ... two point drop ... morning ... so what distinguishes these bombing rise in the ones of the U S lowest against the sign group last month ... well ... so what happen yesterday was ... they may well be the purpose of the strike was a little bit different than the strikes over the last five weeks of man ... over the last five weeks what we've seen our ... app and strikes to want to to keep ... keep the militants away from ... from Erbil ... where where the US has some some ... people when assets ... and the up and also the key try to keep the militants away from ... Mount Sinjar ... and and and and and other places where they were threatening the non ... religious minorities ... now all the strikes with yesterday's ... first first go but the installment ... it has taken on ... a new mission which is to ... go after militants where they are fighting against Iraqi forces and that's what happened ... with the strike yesterday ... that represents the expanded part of the mission that the that the Obama announced last week ... what what what looking right now on fact and video of U S airstrikes ... are those of ... our exit from oldest oversupplied newest it is probably not the most recent ones ... so that bubble that was the most ... this is its recent ones but ... God it must resort yesterday India for people remember the geography of of of of Iraqi go west of Baghdad ... to around solution and then sell this this this is where ... the strike took place away from ... the Kurdish area this ... away from areas where the US had been sort of operating before and ... I'm now we're getting now are getting into areas where where where the Iraqi forces are trying to engage the Islamic State ... um so it so takes on it it's it's not it's not exactly a ... it was a single strike against a single ... militant position that was fighting Iraqi forces ... so not exactly a shock and awe ... um but ... the the ... the beginning of of the sort who stays at least in Iraq ... do we have any idea of the red success of the studs ... well in in terms of in terms of the success of a single strike I think the judges thus the success ... of we will we we should know more later um ... they been the main getting what they think is that my keepers twenty percent success rate on on the strikes which are very targeted very priest married very precise very ... limited in nature and and and and this one even though it represents expanded ... mission ... that the US is taking on how it was still limited strike ... with that with a strike against a single position to to ... to to eliminate the threat posed by militants to the Iraqi forces ... Bob thanks for much for your insights
