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cali

(114,904 posts) Sat May 2, 2015, 11:03 AM May 2015

Civilian death toll from today's U.S. strike on Syria rises to 52, including 7 children

he death toll from an air strike by U.S.-led forces on the northern Syrian province of Aleppo has risen to 52 including seven children, a group monitoring the conflict said on Saturday.

Rami Abdulrahman, who runs the British-based Observatory for Human Rights, said the death toll from Friday's strike was the highest civilian loss in a single attack by U.S. and Arab forces since they started air raids against hardline Islamist militant groups in Syria such as Islamic State.

U.S.-led forces are also targeting the group in Iraq.

The Britain-based Observatory said the raid had mistakenly struck civilians in a village on the eastern banks of the Euphrates River in Aleppo province, killing members of at least six families.

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http://in.reuters.com/article/2015/05/02/syria-strike-idINKBN0NN08I20150502

The gift that never stops giving- A war on terror that exponentially creates more terrorists.

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Civilian death toll from today's U.S. strike on Syria rises to 52, including 7 children (Original Post) cali May 2015 OP

K&R woo me with science May 2015 #1

And Assad is responsible for a quarter-million civilian deaths, but who's counting? Blue_Tires May 2015 #2

I'm counting, and your numbers are way off. Comrade Grumpy May 2015 #3

No Man Is An Island - Poem by John Donne Tierra_y_Libertad May 2015 #4

woo me with science

(32,139 posts)

1. K&R

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Sat May 2, 2015, 11:36 AM

May 2015

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)

2. And Assad is responsible for a quarter-million civilian deaths, but who's counting?

Reply to cali (Original post)

Sun May 3, 2015, 03:53 PM

May 2015

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2015/may/07/syria-death-assads-chlorine/

Holy fuck you're over 100,000 posts! Congrats!! HUGE milestone!

Comrade Grumpy

(13,184 posts)

3. I'm counting, and your numbers are way off.

Reply to Blue_Tires (Reply #2)

Sun May 3, 2015, 04:30 PM

May 2015

The total number of dead in the Syrian civil war is around 250,000.

Regime forces and rebels have died in about equal numbers.

Fewer civilians have died. Although probably tens of thousands.

It's probably something like 100,000 dead Syrian soldiers and 100,000 dead rebels and 50,000 dead civilians.

Of the dead civilians, regime forces have killed most, but various rebels have also killed plenty.

If you want to lay blame, there's plenty of that to go around, including some that can be laid at the feet of US policy. We seem to have a bloody-minded policy of prolonging the civil war in a bid to gain leverage against Assad. That only gives more breathing space to ISIS, Al Nusra, and those other jihadists.

Tierra_y_Libertad

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4. No Man Is An Island - Poem by John Donne

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Sun May 3, 2015, 04:37 PM

May 2015

No Man Is An Island - Poem by John Donne

No man is an island,
Entire of itself,
Every man is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thy friend's
Or of thine own were:
Any man's death diminishes me,
Because I am involved in mankind,
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee.
John Donne

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