ISIS's Preparatory American Bombardment

by JASmius



Okay, so snuffing a hundred U.S. soldiers isn't exactly a "bombardment".  But it would serve to illustrate the reality of the length of ISIS's reach:

[The] Islamic State has posted online what it says are the names, U.S. addresses and photos of one hundred American military service members, and called upon its "brothers residing in America" to kill them....

In the posting, a group referring to itself as the “Islamic State Hacking Division” wrote in English that it had hacked several military servers, databases and emails and made public the information on 100 members of the U.S. military so that “lone wolf” attackers can kill them.

Aaaaaaand their families.

The posting, addressed to "disbelievers, Christians, and crusaders” in America, included what the group said were the names, military service branch, photos and street addresses of the individuals. The posting includes the military rank of some but not all of those named.

The New York Times quotes "officials" as saying the list appeared to have been drawn from personnel mentioned in news articles about air strikes on ISIS.  Which suggests that if those personnel are now "home," that those "airstrikes" have been terminated and Barack Obama has already withdrawn those token "forces" now that the 2014 midterm elections are long since over, he's "the president he always wanted to be," and he no longer needs to keep up that flagrantly phony pretense.  But that's not going to preclude the enemy from continuing it, since they benefit from it even more than The One did.

But have no fear, peeps, for the Obamagon is on the case:

The Pentagon said after the information was posted on the Internet that it was investigating the matter. "I can't confirm the validity of the information, but we are looking into it," a U.S. defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said on Saturday.

Well, THAT's reassuring.  At least "The Hundred" can take comfort in that their superiors didn't confirm the information for ISIS, rather than ISIS having to corroborate it independently.

"We always encourage our personnel to exercise appropriate OPSEC (operations security) and force protection procedures," the official added.

Again, most reassuring.  Especially since the Obamagon seems incapable of mastering that particular skill.

Exit question: Are ISIS's "lone wolves" going to mow down "The Hundred" piecemeal or all at once?  The latter would be a lot more spectacular, in character with their flair for the dramatic, and in maintaining OPSEC, don't you think?