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Four Belgian F-16 and two French mirage fighter jets have carried out a bombing raid on Iraq yesterday. They have tried to target specifically production facilities for IEDs ("Improvised Explosives Devices"). The article is just local news in France and Belgium, I guess (link in Dutch).
As you know, IEDs render the use of tanks and armoured vehicles hazardous, and are in fact, ineffective. These IEDs have proven to be a very effective tool to combat occupation troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Since the French and the Belgian bombers thought that they knew what exactly to bomb, they clearly have quite a few intelligence operatives in the territory of the insurgency. There is no way that they could know what to bomb just by looking at things from the air.
Apparently, the fighter jets took off from airstrips in Jordan. This implicates the Jordanian elite quite a bit. I wonder how destabilizing this is going to work on Jordan on the long run? It is also clear that the insurgency must be looking for ways to infiltrate into Jordan and render these airstrips ineffective. Furthermore, the longer they use fighter jets, the more likely the insurgents will adapt to them, and render them ineffective too, or even find ways to knock them out of the air. Still, the fighter jet seems to be pretty much the last weapon still standing at the moment.
Since the IS has used previous bombing raids as a justification for their bombings in Paris and Brussels, I wonder if the intelligence services in France and Belgium believe that they can prevent new boomerang bombings? There is no information about their views in the article. Counter-intelligence certainly did not work last time.
This war is obviously all about infiltration and counter-intelligence to combat infiltration ...
As you know, IEDs render the use of tanks and armoured vehicles hazardous, and are in fact, ineffective. These IEDs have proven to be a very effective tool to combat occupation troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Since the French and the Belgian bombers thought that they knew what exactly to bomb, they clearly have quite a few intelligence operatives in the territory of the insurgency. There is no way that they could know what to bomb just by looking at things from the air.
Apparently, the fighter jets took off from airstrips in Jordan. This implicates the Jordanian elite quite a bit. I wonder how destabilizing this is going to work on Jordan on the long run? It is also clear that the insurgency must be looking for ways to infiltrate into Jordan and render these airstrips ineffective. Furthermore, the longer they use fighter jets, the more likely the insurgents will adapt to them, and render them ineffective too, or even find ways to knock them out of the air. Still, the fighter jet seems to be pretty much the last weapon still standing at the moment.
Since the IS has used previous bombing raids as a justification for their bombings in Paris and Brussels, I wonder if the intelligence services in France and Belgium believe that they can prevent new boomerang bombings? There is no information about their views in the article. Counter-intelligence certainly did not work last time.
This war is obviously all about infiltration and counter-intelligence to combat infiltration ...
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