"It gives what he is about to bomb, which is considered terrorist ground; it also gives that a human face.
"I found myself in this bifurcated situation where the place that my grandparents ran to was about to bomb the place they came from," he said.
Roberts said the army had withdrawn ahead of the raid, after being told the Nigerian air force was about to bomb the rebels.
Certainly no presumptive nominee has ever suggested, as Trump did a few days ago, that a Mexican plane might be about to bomb him.
In 1986, Prime Minister Bettino Craxi saved Colonel Qaddafi's life by warning him that the United States was about to bomb Tripoli in retaliation for the German disco bombing, Mr. Craxi's son, Bobo Craxi, said in an interview.
It still confuses many Americans that, in a world full of vicious slimeballs, we're about to bomb one that didn't attack us on 9/11 (like Osama); that isn't intercepting our planes (like North Korea); that isn't financing Al Qaeda (like Saudi Arabia); that isn't home to Osama and his lieutenants (like Pakistan); that isn't a host body for terrorists (like Iran, Lebanon and Syria).
The Iraqis who loved us, even though we were from the U.S., a country that was about to bomb them: "We are Iraqi you are Americans, we are not Saddam and you are not Bush.
Uneasy Truces and UnderstandingsAt one point, the circling coalition jet flew away and Ahmed alerted us that the Syrian Arab Air Force was about to bomb IS, to prevent a desperate push into regime territory from al-Zuhor.
While the coalition denies any military coordination with the regime, the YPG commanders on the ground knew who was about to bomb, and where, in advance, and the US jet, fortuitously or not, managed to avoid sharing airspace with Assad's air force.
