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Canadian airplanes drop bombs near Fallujah in their first anti-Isis mission

Kuwait City, Kuwait - Ottawa’s government contribution to the international coalition includes six fighters, two maritime patrol aircraft and one tanker

Defence ministry Rob Nicholson declared that Canadian airplanes did their first anti-Isis mission in Iraq on Sunday November 2. The ministry did not say which objectives were hit and added the military will release no further information about the mission until Tuesday November 4. The details disclosed so far say two CF-18 dropped GBU12 500-lb laser-guided bombs near Fallujah. The town, west of...

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Rome, Italy, 11/03/2014 19:37
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