U.S. Bombers That Don't Bomb ISIS

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House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce, R-Calif., confirming a report published earlier this year by the U.S. Central Command, said U.S. pilots report being ordered not to drop 75% of their bombs on terrorist targets.

 

An exasperated Royce complained last week: "You went 12 full months while ISIS was on the march without the U.S. using that air power and now as the pilots come back to talk to us they say three-quarters of our ordnance we can't drop, we can't get clearance even when we have a clear target in front of us."

 

"The fact that aircraft go on missions and don't strike anything is not out of the norm," the Pentagon told the Washington Free Beacon.

 

But retired four-star Gen. Jack Keane called it "an absurdity from the beginning" based on President Obama's demand of zero casualties that, according to Keane, "has driven our so-called rules of engagement to a degree we have never had in any previous air campaign from Desert Storm to the present."

 

Keane claimed that neither French nor Russian pilots operate under such restrictions.

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Pentagon Confirms: Warning Pamphlets Dropped on Islamic State ‘to Minimize the Risks to Civilians’

 

A U.S. Central Command official confirmed to the Washington Free Beacon on Monday that warning pamphlets were dropped on Islamic State targets 45 minutes before bombing sorties in order “to minimize the risks to civilians.”

The confirmation comes on the heels of disclosures that U.S. military pilots were blocked from dropping 75 percent of their ordinance on likely targets due to concerns about harming civilians.

The warning leaflets were dropped in advance of strikes on an Islamic State (also known as ISIS or ISIL) convoy of trucks near the city of Al-Bukamal in Syria, according to the military official.

“We can confirm that leaflets were used prior to air strike operations in the area near Al-Bukamal, as part of Operation Tidal Wave II,” the source said. “The leaflets are used to minimize the risks to civilians.”

The leaflets read: “Get out of your trucks now and run away from them.”

 

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/pentagon-confirms-warning-pamphlets-dropped-on-islamic-state-to-minimize-the-risks-to-civilians/