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'YOU CAN RUN BUT CAN'T HIDE!'
US military taunts ISIS in dramatic video showing airstrikes blitzing jihadi getaway car as it speeds along road
Footage filmed near northern town of Qayyarah as Iraqi army and Kurds close in on Mosul
THE US military has taunted ISIS after releasing a video showing one of the group’s trucks being destroyed by an airstrike.
The footage, filmed in Qayyarah in Iraq, comes with the message: “YOU CAN RUN, BUT YOU CAN'T HIDE!”
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The video is shot from an aircraft and shows a vehicle speeding down a motorway near the northern city, located 36 miles to the south of Mosul.
With a target sign hovering over the doomed truck, a missile – a tiny speck on the screen – hurtles towards it.
The projectile slams into the moving target with pinpoint accuracy and it explodes in a dramatic fireball.
The flaming vehicle then rolls off the road before coming to a halt, as black smoke pours into the sky.
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At the moment the missile strikes, the chilling message appears in large capital letters at the bottom of the screen – a warning to the jihadis that they are being watched.
The video was filmed on 21 August and was released by the military command fighting ISIS in Iraq – the Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve.
Qayyarah is on the front line of the fight between the terror group and a coalition of Kurdish and Iraqi government forces trying to retake Mosul – Iraq’s second largest city.
Last week, jihadi fighters left a trail of destruction as they fled from the Iraqi army in the area.
They set fire to nearby oil fields – sending black smoke billowing into the air and flooding the streets with oil.
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Speaking to Reuters, one local resident, Abdel Aziz Saleh, 25, said: “They are suffocating us.
“The birds, the animals are black, the people are black. Gas rains down on us at night.
“Now the gas has reached the residential areas.”
The UN’s food relief agency yesterday said it had delivered aid to more than 30,000 desperate people that had been cut off for more than two years.
The country director of the UN World Food Programme, Sally Haydock, said: “The people of Qayyarah had been living under siege for two years and are suffering extreme hunger with scarce access to food supplies.
“Reaching them with life-saving food assistance is a very positive step forward.”
But she warned more needed to be done to help people suffering from the extreme violence the region has witnessed.
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