Keeping ISIS corralled with airstrikes

An Islamic State (IS) convoy coming from Syria in an area they held, was stopped in its tracks by U.S.-led airstrikes last week. 

The goal of the airstrikes was to halt the evacuation of about 300 scumquats and their families from the Lebanon-Syria border toward an IS-controlled area near Iraq.

US officials warned of a strike beforehand but they must have thought we were kidding.

Col. Ryan Dillan, a spokesman for the U.S.-led alliance against IS, said that the airstrike hit vehicles that belonged to IS and were traveling toward the convoy of jihadis and their lovely families. 

Coalition jets also bombed a small bridge and wiped out a road the convoy was to take.

A Hezbollah-negotiated deal that involved the evacuation of IS militants in exchange for the scumquats to hand over the bodies of fighters linked to Hezbollah killed in Syria was what prompted the evacuation.

But Hezbollah was widely criticized for striking such an insane deal. Their leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, defended the group's role in the exchange.

He said the deal was agreed upon by Syrian leadership, and added that the fighters were few in number and were being moved from one Hezbollah-controlled front to another.

Kind of like the devil making a deal with himself in the mirror.

The US-led coalition said it wasn't party to any deals and just might unleash shock and awe on those awful jihadis.

The Hezbollah deal got a sharp response from Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi (aka "Haidar the Horrible"). He called the deal "unacceptable."

"We want to end terrorism, not move them from an area to another," he said.


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