These pictures don't tell the story? That's ridiculous.

They took out the jihadist's garage. That was the purpose and they succeeded. You know the garage where all the stolen American vechicles were keep? That garage.

Americans should know this attack on the jihadists' garages cost them twice. First to put the lousy stuff in Iraq and then to destroy it.

Lieutenant General William C. Mayville Jr. talked about the sites that were targeted.

WASHINGTON — The US-led attacks (click here) that began late Monday against terrorist forces in Syria are equivalent to what a senior Pentagon war planner called buying time for ill-prepared allies on the ground to finish the job.
The strikes are designed to weaken the Islamic State’s hold on its Syrian sanctuary so that regional allies such as the Iraqi army and Syrian rebels can take back the large areas of both countries that are now under the sway of the radical Islamic group....

It is so ridiculous to think of putting combat troops on the ground to take inventory of destroyed stolen American hardware. I can see it now, American soldiers climbing through the rubble to find the lousy stuff to count it while the people are so angry they turn IEDs on them.

NO. It won't happen. Satellite pictures better be good enough and realizing the detail that shows, I think we know exactly what is happening on the ground.

September 24, 2014
By Benjamin Weiser

NEW YORK — A Kuwaiti-born (click here) cleric who sat with Osama bin Laden in an Afghan cave hours after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and later became a fiery spokesman for the Al Qaeda leader, was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday by a federal judge in Manhattan.

The defendant, Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, 48, who was the most senior adviser to bin Laden to be tried in a civilian court in the United States since the attacks, was accused of giving voice to bin Laden’s recruitment drive for new young suicide bombers....

The War of 9/11 is OVER. The country needs to end the AUMF.