Who carried out the aristrikes in Mosul?

[morningfog]

BAGHDAD — Warplanes carried out multiple bombing raids in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Sunday, a day after the leader of a powerful al-Qaeda-inspired militant group appeared online in a video from the city’s main mosque.

Residents of the city, reached by phone, said airstrikes shook the city at least three times Sunday, starting at dawn. It remains unclear what force carried out the airstrikes. The U.S. Defense Department said that it had no knowledge of the airstrikes and that U.S. forces were not involved. An Iraqi government official in Baghdad said he had no information about any airstrikes near Mosul.

On Friday, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State, which declared a revival of the medieval Islamic caliphate in Iraq and Syria last week, delivered a sermon to worshipers from Mosul’s Great Mosque.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/in-iraq-airstrikes-slam-into-mosul-city-held-by-al-qaeda-inspired-militants/2014/07/06/432e7d52-0515-11e4-a0dd-f2b22a257353_story.html

[Adsos Letter]

1. Good question.

Iraq just recently received some surplus MiGs from Russia, but I don't know if their pilots are up to speed on them yet.

[morningfog]

2. Syria has struck just over its border and Iran is flying, too.

They're going to need some serious air traffic control.

[Adsos Letter]

3. Yeah, I thought of the recent Syrian strikes also.

Does ISIS have any air capacity beyond helicopters? If not, crowded skies could provide a field day for the guys with the shoulder-launched systems.

Wonder if anyone has an AWACS in the area...

[delrem]

4. ISIS is well equipped, that's for sure - and it has solid suppliers.

It would be astounding, if one were too stupid to connect the dots.