This ISIS fighter just didn’t want to miss out on the hottest
thing around. Little did he know that humble-bragging online to get some RTs on
Twitter would get subtweeted along with 3 JDAM bombs.
Military.com gives us an ISIS selfie story that went
horribly wrong:
Air Force Gen. Hawk
Carlisle, head of Air Combat Command, described Monday how airmen at Hurlburt
Field, Florida, with the 361st Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance
Group, recognized a comment on social media and turned that into an airstrike
that resulted in three Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) missiles destroying
am [sic] Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) headquarters building.
“It was a post on
social media to bombs on target in less than 24 hours,” Carlisle told
Military.com. “Incredible work when you think about [it].”
The post was careful not to reveal any secrets that could
jeopardize any other ISIS “morons” revealing their locales via social media.
“The guys that were
working down out of Hurlburt, they’re combing through social media and they see
some moron standing at this command,” Carlisle said. “And in some social media,
open forum, bragging about the command and control capabilities for Daesh,
ISIL. And these guys go: ‘We got an in.’ So they do some work, long story
short, about 22 hours later through that very building, three [Joint Direct
Attack Munitions] take that entire building out.”
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