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LittleBlue

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10. Their most effective attack (and why they can't be stopped by Arab armies) are dump truck bombs

Reply to uppityperson (Original post)

Sat Nov 7, 2015, 05:01 PM

Nov 2015

They armor large vehicles and fill them with unexploded bombs. These bombs are used to make Arab armies with low morale flee. It's so powerful that it stuns their enemies. Then they send in fighters to mop up whoever is left.

I read that in taking one city, they used 14 of these.

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Would you tell me about ISIS/ISIL because my knowledge is not up to date, thank you. [View all] uppityperson Nov 2015 OP

Pretending HassleCat Nov 2015 #1

Toyota's No. 1 Customer for Pickup Trucks. nt CJCRANE Nov 2015 #2

More like our Dept of Defense OxQQme Nov 2015 #3

Call them Daesh, instead Electric Monk Nov 2015 #4

That is interesting, thanks for the links. I will refer to them as Daesh uppityperson Nov 2015 #6

Maybe you should start back in January 2014 - you have a lot of catching up to do muriel_volestrangler Nov 2015 #5

Thank you, I'll go read them. I have been busy elsewhere this yr uppityperson Nov 2015 #7

bombing them won't help. its a cultural movement, killing a bunch isn't going to kill the movement. KG Nov 2015 #8

Fighting over land is 1 thing, over ideology is another. Now it seems they have both. uppityperson Nov 2015 #9

Their most effective attack (and why they can't be stopped by Arab armies) are dump truck bombs LittleBlue Nov 2015 #10