Video of Islamic State Capabilities Impresses Military Experts
By McClatchy News
April 23, 2015 "Information
Clearing House" - "McClatchy
News" - IRBIL, Iraq — The video opens with
high-definition footage shot from a drone flying over an oil refinery in central
Iraq, but this video isn’t from a multi-million-dollar American drone. It’s from
a drone operated by the Islamic State that likely cost a few thousand dollars.
And the refinery – Iraq’s largest – is held by government forces, who have been
besieged by the militants for the better part of a year.
The video, called “Defiant Attack on the Apostates at the Refinery,” began
appearing on jihadist-linked websites and Twitter accounts last week. It
heralded an Islamic State assault on the oil refinery at Baiji, where Iraqi
government soldiers have held out since last summer against surrounding Islamic
State troops. In the end, the government kept hold of the refinery, the
country’s largest, with the help of 47 airstrikes by the United States and a
massive influx of Iraqi reinforcements.
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