U.S. Gave Islamic State Oil Tankers A 45-Minute Warning Before They Were Destroyed By U.S. Warplanes

PJ Media: ISIS Oil Tankers Hit for First Time – With 45-Minute Warning

The spokesman for Operation Inherent Resolve said coalition airstrikes targeted ISIS' oil tankers for the first time -- with a warning from the sky first.

Briefing via teleconference from Baghdad to the Pentagon this morning, Col. Steve Warren told reporters that since Saturday "France has conducted numerous strikes against targets in Raqqa" -- the capital of the Islamic State.

"Those targets include ISIL headquarters, training camps and storage depots. The French have been a robust partner and a robust member of Operation Inherent Resolve. They were the first -- they were our first NATO partner to strike Iraq in September of '14 and they've conducted about 12 percent of all of the non-U.S. strikes in Iraq and Syria so far. There are approximately 240 French troops here in Iraq training, advising and assisting the ISF," Warren said.

WNU Editor: Russian war-planes do not give any warnings .... they destroy these targets with occupants or not .... Islamic State Oil Facilities Are Now Priority Targets For Russian War Planes (Video). As for the U.S. policy, Colonel Steve Warren's explanation just made me laugh (see video below). If these facilities were so important, why did it take Russian bombers in action to force the U.S. to finally respond.