August 19, 2017August 19, 2017 by dmcintosh4

TRUMP IS FINISHED 8-19-2017

Well, it didn’t really take long for Trump to sell out and betray all of us who voted for him. The Trump Sellout was a highly visible process. It was a long list of globalists, Wall Street Whores, banksters, Goldman Sach mooches, and neo con warmongers. Over them all ruled our true believer, Steve Bannon. Bannon, who really was the populist core of Trump’s administration, has now resigned, hounded out by the RINO SCUM, Lying Ryan and Mitch the Bitch, McCain et al, the Soros funded hate groups, and the Deep State media. I can’t say I am surprised at this Deep State coup d’e’tat. It is all over for Trump, who will now be gutted by his enemies. Trump is, to quote a book I read about Lord Woolsey many years ago, “Naked to my enemies.” Trump will have nobody to defend him now that he has betrayed and abandoned his supporters. Trump will be left at the mercy of the baying hounds of the media, the Snowflakes and the Democrats. I voted for Trump, since I thought he was the last, best hope for peaceful change in the USA of 2017. In that, I was naive, as were we all. Still, at least I tried and can honestly say the blood of Civil War Two, which is now inevitable, won’t be on my hands.

PREPARE YOURSELF FOR THE VIOLENCE AND CHAOS THAT NOW LOOMS OVER THE USA.

Several links are below.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/08/18/steve-bannon-speaks-after-white-house-departure-im-going-to-war-for-trump/

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/08/steve-bannon-tells-weekly-standard-trump-presidency-fought-won-now/

http://nypost.com/2017/08/18/steve-bannon-is-out-at-white-house/

Top presidential adviser and nationalist bomb-thrower Steve Bannon is out of a job, the White House said Friday.

“Chief of Staff John Kelly and Steve Bannon have mutually agreed today would be Steve’s last day. We are grateful for his service and wish him the best,” press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement.

Kelly had earlier wrapped up a review of the West Wing staff and the former Breitbart editor, the voice of the alt-right who had the president’s ear, was the first casualty.

“Bannon had one hell of a run,” tweeted Matt Drudge, who first reported the story.

Modal Trigger

Bannon had been on the outs with Trump before for grandstanding and stealing the spotlight, but the president suspected he was one of the main leakers in the administration, trashing his colleagues in news reports.

The notoriously thin-skinned president resented the publicity Bannon had been getting as the supposed mastermind of Trump’s campaign and upset victory.

One White House source told Axios, “His departure may seem turbulent in the media, but inside it will be very smooth. He has no projects or responsibilities to hand off.”

Bannon in recent days gave interviews to publications including the New York Times, in which he defended Trump’s controversial comments in the wake of the racial violence in Charlottesville, Va., last weekend.

A senior White House official told Axios that it seemed like Bannon was setting himself up to be a martyr — the white nationalist hero canned by the “globalists.”

A source close to Bannon added: “This week is a good window into what Bannon outside the [White House] would look like: A strong defense of POTUS and ‘fire and fury’ for enemies of the Trump agenda. Get ready for Bannon the barbarian.”

And Bannon was expected to rejoin Breitbart, which he once said gave a platform to the alt-right.

Trump told reporters at Trump Tower on Tuesday that Bannon was a “good man” and “not a racist.”

“I like Mr. Bannon. He’s a friend of mine. But Mr. Bannon came on very late. You know that. I went through 17 senators, governors, and I won all the primaries. Mr. Bannon came on very much later than that,” Trump said, adding, “but we’ll see what happens with Mr. Bannon.”

In his interview with the ultra-liberal American Prospect, Bannon contradicted the president’s position on North Korea while trashing his more moderate colleagues for their views on an “economic war” with China.

The danger for Trump is that Bannon will unleash Breitbart and other conservative media against the White House.

Doomer Doug, a.k.a. Doug McIntosh now has a blog at www.doomerdoug.wordpress.com
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July 3, 2017July 3, 2017 by dmcintosh4

NORTH KOREA LAUNCHES ICBM, IT FLIES 600 MILES, STAYS UP 40 MINUTES CHINA FREAKS, AND JAPAN WANTS KILLER MISSILES FOR F-35 7-3-2017

ESSAYS, GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION, POLITICS, THE STATE OF THE PLANET, Trump
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Well, Little Fat Boy sure knows how to set off some fireworks for the Fourth of July. First, this was an ICBM, likely medium range, although it may be a disguised long range ICBM. North Korea is now engaged in the kind of sequential testing process you need to develop long range ICBM’s. North Korea has tested missile engines and nuclear warheads deep in caves. North Korea has launched multiple missiles, with height tests, like shooting them up high, short and medium range tests, to determine trajectory. Finally, North Korea has consistently said it will never stop doing this until it has a nuclear warhead tipped long range ICBM capable of hitting the US West Coast. Actually, Little Fat Boy wants the range to hit all of CONUS.

Trump’s tweets are here.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-07-04/trump-responds-nkoreas-rocket-lunch-does-kim-have-anything-better-do-his-life

NORTH KOREA TO MAKE “IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT” 12 MIDNIGHT PST

Nathan J Hunt Retweeted
The Korea Herald‏ @TheKoreaHerald 45m45 minutes ago

[Breaking] North Korea says it will make ‘important announcement’ at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday

www.yonhapnews.com

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/03/asia/n…ers/index.html

https://www.yahoo.com/news/north-kor…?.tsrc=fauxdal

http://www.businessinsider.com/japan…h-korea-2017-6

July 1, 2017July 1, 2017 by dmcintosh4

HOW THE REPUBLICANS MAY LOSE IN 2018

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The link below makes some interesting reading regarding the November 2018 elections that everybody thinks are a slam-dunk for the Republicans. My comments are below.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattve…think-n2348548

I am on record as seeing the results of the 2018 election as a 60 seat Republican Senate and a 300 Republican House majority. Unfortunately, there is a reason the Republican Party is called the Stupid Party. The RINOS have unleashed a level of arrogance, incompetence and stupidity I find truly staggering in scope. The Republicans have all the advantages in November of 2018; yet, they may just screw it up and lose seats. The reason being a lot of the Trump voters are becoming increasingly angry at the RINO traitors, like Lying Ryan, annoyed at Trump for his flip flops, and inability, or unwillingness, to actually do what he said he would do on many issues. I have a whole list of Trump’s con jobs ranging from illegal immigration, fair trade, neo con warmongering and others.

Ergo, do not assume the RINO/Trump party will coast to victory. We may see a scenario where you have a massive Democrat turnout from enraged anti-Trump types, a low turnout from disgusted Trump voters, combined with just enough voter fraud to tip just enough elections. I will note that 21 states are refusing to give the Korbach commission any information on voter lists. Gee, I wonder why?

At any rate, the Stupid Republican Party may be willing to trash both Trump and their majority in order to take Trump down.

Doomer Doug, a.k.a. Doug McIntosh now has a blog at www.doomerdoug.wordpress.com
My end of the world e book “Day of the Dogs” will soon be available for sale at smashwords. The url is
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June 14, 2017June 14, 2017 by dmcintosh4

THE WRATH OF THE AWAKENED DEPLORABLE 6-14-2016

ESSAYS, GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION, POLITICS, Trump
USA, War
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It is certainly symbolic that an armed attack, by a Berniebot, happened on Flag Day. After all, the Marxist drones loathe and despise the American Flag. They think so little of it they routinely burn it during their riot/demonstrations. It is also no surprise that after they stoked the fire of hatred towards normal Americans, something like this happens. It was said, by Mann I think, that a society that burns books, will soon burn people. He was speaking about the Nazis, but the hatred now applies to the Marxists. It is a short step from decapitating Trump’s head as “performance art,” to a Shakespeare play featuring the death of the POTUS, to a Berniebot opening fire on the “enemy;” namely, Republicans. Further, the brazen sedition causer, George Soros, is currently funding open rebellion against the duly elected POTUS, and now advocating the murder of political dissidents. I will tell you all plainly we are now on the edge of the abyss called Civil War Two. Incident after incident, from the FBI murder in Oregon of the Bundy supporter, to the vicious attacks on Trump supporters, the stand down orders given to police by their Marxist masters, clearly shows “they” hate our guts, view us as the enemy, and have moved beyond saying we should all be killed, to actually starting to do so.

Granted, the shooting today emphasizes two key points. The first is the Marxist left has made the mental adjustment from talking about killing POTUS, the deplorables and “Republicans” to actually pulling the trigger. The second thing, is well, to put it bluntly, they are incompetent. I am a military veteran, although I never saw combat. I trained on the M-16 rifle in basic and during permanent party in Germany. The last time I fired an M-16 was in 1974 at a rifle range. I did not fire any rifle until 1998 when I went shooting with a friend. Even though I had not fired any rifle, and not one round, in decades when I shot his bolt action Remington in the 30:06 round, my first shot was left of dead center on the border of the next ring. My second shot was right of dead center of the next ring. My third shot was dead center. Of course, he had a scope, but my point is I would have put three shots into the head of anybody I shot at, even after not firing a rifle for 23 years. The Berniebot who opened fire today was a truly horrible shot. He fired 50 shots and hit five people, from a fixed position, with no return fire and several minutes to do so, at least until he was shot to death. It is a truly ironic thing about the Marxist drones that they are equally enraged, equally ignorant, and totally incompetent at so many levels. I have long told my liberal neighbors up here in Portland that they must never truly piss people like me, and you, off. If they do, they will find out the 30 plus million military veterans have not forgotten their training, have dealt with all the psychological issues required to actually pull the trigger with a live human being at the other end of the barrel. After today, I think a lot of deplorables have also taken the next step, entered the next phase needed for Civil War Two. The thing the Marxists have never understood, with their continual baiting of us, their mocking, sneering, brutal contempt of our cultural values, personal ideologies is they are baiting the bear. The Marxists would be wise to remember the bumper sticker that says: “The reason you aren’t dead is because I haven’t killed you.” Do the Marxists really believe that we won’t unleash total blitzkrieg on them if they really do threaten us personally, our families, our friends and our society? If they do, then they are even more ignorant than I thought.

Today will be remembered as a decisive day in the history of the decayed American Republic. It will mark the first real shot in the looming civil war between the Marxist morons and the rest of us deplorable types. It truly is the shot heard round the country. Unfortunately for the Marxist thugs, the response will not be what they think it will be. Instead of instilling fear in us conservative types, it will instill a savage and deep rooted determination, and even rage, against these Marxist punks with delusions of being Rambo.

I will leave you with a poem from Kipling that the Marxists should not only read, but brand on their upturned noses. It is called “The Wrath of the Awakened Saxon.” It speaks for itself.

THE WRATH OF THE AWAKENED SAXON
by Rudyard Kipling

It was not part of their blood,
It came to them very late,
With long arrears to make good,
When the Saxon began to hate.

They were not easily moved,
They were icy — willing to wait
Till every count should be proved,
Ere the Saxon began to hate.

Their voices were even and low.
Their eyes were level and straight.
There was neither sign nor show
When the Saxon began to hate.

It was not preached to the crowd.
It was not taught by the state.
No man spoke it aloud
When the Saxon began to hate.

It was not suddently bred.
It will not swiftly abate.
Through the chilled years ahead,
When Time shall count from the date
That the Saxon began to hate.

June 8, 2017June 8, 2017 by dmcintosh4

HOLY FECAL MATERIAL, BATMAN COMEY JUST SQUASHED OBAMA’S AG LYNCH 6-8-2017

ESSAYS, GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION, POLITICS, Trump
POLITICS, USA
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I have written about Comey before, where I called him a traitor, which he is. I have also written about Obama’s AG Lynch, calling her a crook and a prostitute, which she is. Obama, well I think my blog readers know what I think about Obama! Today’s hearings, with former FBI Director Comey, are the political version of what happens when an animal falls into a pool of water full of hungry piranha.

The link is here.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-08/comey-admits-ag-lynch-pressured-him-use-clinton-campaign-language-it-gave-me-queasy-

The main thing I get out of the testimony so far is Comey really is an amoral opportunist, a squalid little political cretin and willing to do anything to save his pathetic rear end. I am merely confirming my initial judgment in my previous essays, which are from July of 2016 I think. The fact that Comey just admitted that Lynch personally instructed the FBI to manipulate the Clinton E-mail investigation, for the political benefit of the Clinton Presidential Campaign, well it’s called a FELONY. Further, now that the NSA has admitted they have the audio recording of the so-called “Tarmac Conversation” between Bill Clinton and Lynch, although they refuse to release it for “national security reasons.” It is more likely national embarrassment reasons. The NSA must be charged with criminal obstruction of an investigation into the deal Lynch and Clinton made in the plane. AG Jeff Sessions must begin a criminal investigation into Lynch, Bill Clinton, the NSA for refusing to release the tapes, and finally, into both the Clinton Foundation, the so called “pay to play,” as well as into the Clinton e-mail server.

I view Comey’s testimony as a spineless, gutless, moral coward, desperately trying to avoid the total destruction of his “reputation,” besides any of the many criminal charges he may face. In particular, I have long felt that Obama’s whore of an AG, Loretta Lynch, was the key to nearly everything. Lynch knows where all the skeletons, right down to the last bone, are buried. It was Lynch who guaranteed Bill Clinton a free pass for all criminal acts done. It was Lynch who muzzled the FBI, the CIA, the NSA regarding any Clinton investigation. It was Lynch who carried the ball for the Obama administration on the unmasking, the spying, the FISA court is talking about.

Comey, well Comey has just unleashed the firestorm, not about Trump, or the Russian farce, or the weird sex dossier, or any of that mainstream “fake news” stuff. Comey has now said former AG Lynch pressured him, FOR POLITICAL REASONS, to slant the email server report. What needs to happen now is AG Sessions appoints a Special Prosecutor to investigate the Clinton Lynch tarmac meeting, besides beginning a criminal investigation in the NSA, National Security Administration, for obstructing justice by refusing to release the audio tape of the tarmac meeting. Oh yeah, “they” thought Comey was going to take Trump down, but he is going to, eventually, take Obama down.

I have been requested to write about the mobile, two-legged fecal materials now rioting at will in Portland, but I just can’t do it. I am so filled with hatred for them I can’t stand to even think about them, much less write about them. I also see this mobile fecal material on a daily basis, where I find myself filled with such a feeling of physical violence, as in beating them up, that it isn’t healthy. We are clearly going to have an explosion of violence this summer. It could happen on the June 10th anti-Sharia Law protests, or the Soros funded July 2nd ones, or on July 4th, or any time the domestic terrorists known as Black Lives Matter get the Soros go ahead.

May 24, 2017May 24, 2017 by dmcintosh4

TURKEY’S ERDOGAN GOES ALL IN 5-24-2017

ESSAYS, MILITANT ISLAM, POLITICS, Trump
Iran, islam, Middle East, POLITICS, USA, War, war on terror
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One thing you can say about Turkey’s Erdogan is he is playing the Restored Ottoman Empire card to its logical conclusion. Besides having his bodyguard/thugs pound peaceful Kurdish demonstrators badly enough they needed to go to the ER, he has shown he is quite willing to seize as much of Northern Syria as he can get away with. Turkey, besides being a known supporter of ISIS, has engaged in routine military actions against Kurds inside of Syria. Turkey has shelled them with artillery, sent troops in to kill them, and bombed them with its F-16’s. Turkey is a NATO member, which means NATO has been directly engaged in attacking Kurdish forces that have been fighting ISIS. Erdogan has now been voted in as dictator, if not for life, at least until 2026 or so. The man really does think he is the new leader of a restored Ottoman Empire, and he really is willing to take any actions he can to make that happen.

Erdogan is now rolling the dice and moving in for the final kill of any Kurds in Syria who dare to not knuckle under to his military and political goals. The link below shows just how far Erdogan is willing to go to occupy Northern Syria and annex it to Turkey itself.

http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13960303000841

Turkey to Form 10,000-Fighter Army to Battle Kurdish Forces in Northern Syria

TEHRAN (FNA)- Sources in the Free Syrian Army (FSA) militant group disclosed that Ankara is about to form a new army of 10,000 FSA fighters to take part in battles against the Kurdish forces in Northern Syria.

The sources were quoted by the Arabic desk of Sputnik as saying that Turkey has a plan to form a new 10,000-member army from the Ankara-backed FSA militants to use them in battles against the Kurdish forces in a vast region staring from Jarabulus in Northern Aleppo to Idlib.

The sources added that the FSA militants are due to go under a 3-month training course and a further 45-day training by the Turkish Special Forces.

Sputnik went on to say that the FSA members that are to go under training will receive $300 as their monthly salary, while the Turkish side will also provide the FSA fighters with food and housing.

The sources told Sputnik that the operations in the towns of Afrin, Manbij and Tal Abyadh is the main objective of this new army.

Meantime, the people in al-Bab city in the Northern parts of Aleppo rallied to protest at the Turkish army and its allies’ deployment in the region.

Local sources in al-Bab reported on Monday that people held protest rallies in Sheikh Aqil district of al-Bab which was occupied by the Turkish army and Ankara-backed militants.

They added that tens of people in the region carried placards to protest at Ankara and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s policies.

They also chanted slogans including “Erdogan listen! We don’t obey your cruel army. This place belongs to us”.

The rally was held after Turkey’s Deputy Prime Minister Veysi Kaynak said the country was considering establishing a base near the Syrian city of al-Bab.

Kaynak said location of the base currently being considered by the Turkish General Staff was Aqil Hill, West of al-Bab.

The Turkish military established a temporary base at the strategic site after capturing it in February and was considering turning it into something more permanent since.

Speaking after a trip to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kaynak added that Turkish military presence in the area was reduced from 8,000 at the peak of the Operation Euphrates Shield to 1,500.

Turkey sent its military into Syria in August last year to prop up local militias allied with Ankara against ISIL and Kurdish forces. The confrontation with Syrian Kurd militias, which Turkey considers an off-shoot of the Turkish-based militant movement Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), put Ankara at odds with the US.

The next link indicate the level of US support for the Kurds who will likely be fighting this new Turkish force in a few months.

http://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/syria/24052017

Over 100 trucks loaded with US arms, ammo arrive in Syria’s Rojava – Turkish media

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region— A new batch of US arms and ammunition has arrived in the Kurdish controlled city of Hasaka, second such shipment in two months, Turkish media reported Tuesday.

The shipment, loaded on trucks and military vehicles, consisted of anti tank weapons, MK19, M4 Cabrine, M16 and Humwees and crossed the Semelka border into Syria from the Kurdistan Region on two separate occasions, May 15 and May 20, the media reports said. The US-led coaltion and the SDF haven’t yet announced the delivery.

According to multiple Turkish media outlets, the shipments were delivered to the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an umbrella group which also includes the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG).

US President Donald Trump has approved a plan to arm the Syrian Kurdish fighters — an important U.S. ally in Syria in the fight against ISIS.

The Pentagon has said the move is significant because it supports the notion that the SDF is the fighting force that will eventually go in to Raqqa city in Syria’s center which has been under ISIS control since 2014.

The move reinforces the idea that the entire Syrian Democratic Force, Syrian Kurds (YPG) and the Syrian Arab Coalition, has the backing of the U.S.

“The (Syrian Democratic Force), partnered with enabling support from U.S. and coalition forces, are the only force on the ground that can successfully seize Raqqa in the near future,” chief Pentagon spokesperson Dana White said in a statement on May 8 after signing the deal to arm the SDF.

No final dates have been set for the Raqqa offensive yet.

Turkey, a key US ally, sees YPG as a “terrorist” organisation and has vehemently opposed Washington’s intentions to include the Kurdish group in the operation. Ankara has instead proposed using the formation of Syrian rebel factions under the umbrella of its Euphrates Shield operation to launch the offensive.

COMEY IS ROYALLY SCREWED 5-18-2017

ESSAYS, GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION, POLITICS, Trump
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It is with great joy I can write that former FBI Director Comey is now hoisted upon his petard. The man who destroyed the rule of law in the USA by refusing to investigate clear corruption by Hellary the Shrew, her AG lapdog, Lynch and other examples of evil too numerous to mention, is now facing perjury charges. Of course, this assumes the spineless, gutless, RINOS have the cajones to truly go after him. Comey was fired by POTUS Trump for gross negligence and incompetence. Comey, using Deep State media shills, then leaked various memos saying that Trump told him to stand down on the Flynn investigation relating to Russia. Comey also implied that Trump told him to stand down on the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Obviously these charges by Comey are serious and potentially devastating to Trump if they are true. They are not true and reveal the hysteria and squalor of the Deep State, the Democrats, and Comey himself.

Comey testified before Congress on May 3rd, 2017. During that testimony, under oath and subject to perjury charges, Comey stated that Trump had not obstructed either the investigation into Flynn, or the Russia. The Deep State then got a Special Prosecutor appointed to investigate so-called Russian election hacking. Unfortunately for Comey, he can’t have it both ways. He can’t say on May 3rd Trump didn’t obstruct him, and now say, in his famous leaked memo, that he did. The link is here.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/05/smoking-gun-comey-testified-oathtrump-never-pressured-fbi-halt-investigations/

SMOKING GUN=> Comey Under Oath: Trump NEVER Pressured FBI to Halt Investigations “It’s Not Happened”

Cristina Laila May 17th, 2017 7:23 pm 361 Comments

Former FBI Director James Comey testified under oath May 3rd that the Trump administration had not pressured his agency to halt any investigation for political purposes.

The bottom line for the disgraced Comey is he has now openly committed perjury in his testimony before Congress. Comey can’t have it both ways. If Trump obstructed the FBI, then Comey should have said so on May 3rd. The fact Comey is now saying he did means he was negligent in not reporting it on May 3rd. The leaked memo sent to the Deep State media sources is clearly a lie designed to embarrass Donald Trump. As such, it is actionable under libel and slander laws. Further, it is actionable under laws relating to the release of secret information, much as Hellary was likely to be charged for her email server. At any rate, Comey is now totally subject to criminal prosecution for fraud, corruption and leaking of false information.

In other news, we see again why Trump’s immigration measures against terror are a great idea designed to keep American citizens safe. It was only a matter of time before the USA was hit with a vehicle terrorist act. The link is below.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/05/photos-suspect-times-square-attack-12-injured-one-dead/

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/05/speeding-car-strikes-10-pedestrians-times-square-least-one-person-dead/

While the driver certainly appears, at least to me, to be dark skinned and possibly of Middle Eastern descent, the usual PC media rules apply. These are: if the person is a minority then you can wait hours for that fact to be announced by the media; however, if it is a white, preferably a deplorable wearing a MAGA hat, then that info is immediately released. The longer it is before this info is released will mean we are dealing with a terror attack. Again, it could be a drunken fool we are dealing with here.

The final blog comment relates to the endless games our neo-con warmongers, now infesting the Trump administration, play in Syria. I guess Israel stating they want to murder Assad Junior, or Erdogan’s thugs beating up Kurdish protest marchers in our capital wasn’t enough to get things fired up. Trump goes to the Middle East on a peace trip, and the neo-cons bomb Assad’s troops. Yep, no connection there at all.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/05/breaking-us-coalition-air-strike-hits-pro-assad-forces-southern-syria-video/

The U.S. military carried out an air strike on Thursday against militia supported by the Syrian government who had moved against U.S.-backed fighters in the country’s south, a U.S. official told Reuters on Thursday.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the strikes took place near the town of At Tanf and followed warning shots by U.S. aircraft meant to dissuade the fighters.

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