
A U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle has delivered leaflets over ISIS insurgents in Syria.
On Mar. 16, a U.S. F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jet deployed in the Gulf region has conducted an unusual mission: it has dropped some 60,000 leaflets over Raqqa region, the ISIS stronghold in Syria.
The leaflet depicts a gruesome drawing, showing 7 men being lined up for a meat grinder (labelled “Daesh”) by a “Daesh Recruiting Office” (Daesh is the Arabic acronym for ISIS).
The leaflets were released by means of a PDU-5B leaflet canister.
#الرقة_تذبح_بصمت #Raqqa #Syria #ISIS # Pamphlets dropped in Raqqa by International Coalition airplanes pic.twitter.com/GgqHCXRjBJ
— Abu Ibrahim Raqqawi (@raqqa_mcr) 26 Marzo 2015
The purpose of the leaflet is to support PSYOPS (Psychological Operations) in Syria. The message of the leaflet is clear: those recruited by ISIS will find themselves in a meat grinder.
Image credit: U.S. DoD
During 2011 Air War in Libya, U.S. Air Force EC-130s broadcast radio messages to the Libyan military, to persuade them to return to their families before it was too late, whereas Italian C-130J aircraft dropped leaflets over Tripoli to counter Gaddafi’s regime propaganda in Libya’s capital city.
Air drop of leaflets in support of Information Operations have been conducted by the U.S. Army above Helmand province, Afghanistan, using U.S. Marine Corps MV-22B Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft to deliver information to areas of Helmand province unreachable by conventional communication.
Leaflets have been also air dropped by Syrian Arab Air Force Mil Mi-8 helicopters over Aleppo in August 2012 to urge rebels to surrender to the Syrian Army.
Israeli A-4 dropped leaflets over Gaza in the past as well.
Could someone please translate what is written on the sign hanging from the ceiling, on the grinder, and on the monitor on the right wall?
http://www.aljazeera.com/blogs/middleeast/2015/03/drops-gruesome-anti-isil-leaflet-syria-150326220931884.html
“Two ISIL recruiters, one of whom appears more monster than man, feed young men into a meat grinder with “Daesh” written in blood on its side. A sign in the upper-right corner reads “Now Serving Number 6,001″.”
Sign: “Daesh Employment Office”
Grinder: “Daesh”
Monitor: “Now Serving Number 6,001”.
the sign on the top says “Daesh (ISIS) employment office”
the grinder has the word “Daesh”, the arabic acronym for ISIS (they don’t like being called by it)
finally the top right screen says “now serving #6001” using indian drawing of numbers and a syrian accent in the wording, maybe for localization.
I wouldn’t say they told the syrians anything they didn’t know about isis, but the syrian’s choices are limited and i don’t think these pamphlets will be any help, hope i’m wrong though.
Sorry, but I tried to come up with a psyops claim that might actually carry weight with these ISIS recruits and drew a complete blank.
In WWII, SS troops dying for “the Fatherland” typically did not believe in an afterlife. Hitler bragged about that. They got nothing themselves from their sacrifice.
These ISIS guys think they’ve got 72 virgins ready and waiting for them (or perhaps tied to a bed ready to be raped), after they pass through that meat grinder. That’s a totally different kind of madness.
It is. THAT is why religion is so scary in society.
Translation: “McDonalds. Over 100 Billion Served.”