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malaise

(269,054 posts)
Thu May 25, 2017, 09:11 PM May 2017

By the way -US admits Mosul airstrikes killed over 100 civilians during battle with Isis

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/25/us-mosul-airstrikes-deadliest-attack-iraq-2003
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The Pentagon has admitted that airstrikes it carried out on a house in western Mosul killed at least 105 civilians in one of the deadliest attacks anywhere in Iraq since the 2003 invasion to oust Saddam Hussein.
Mosul's children were shouting beneath the rubble. Nobody came
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The final toll could be as high as 141, an investigation into the 17 March attack has found, with 36 people still unaccounted for. Nearly all those killed had taken shelter in a house as a battle raged between Islamic State (Isis) forces who were in the area and Iraqi military special force units.

Searing images of bodies being dug from the pancaked ruins of the house were broadcast around the world amid allegations that the fight for Mosul’s densely packed neighborhoods was too often being ceded to high-flying jets to avoid ground clashes with Isis.

A Pentagon investigation released on Thursday found that Isis fighters had planted explosives in the house, causing secondary explosions that caused the house to collapse.


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No flowers or candles for them - indeed there has been very little coverage
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By the way -US admits Mosul airstrikes killed over 100 civilians during battle with Isis (Original Post) malaise May 2017 OP
Trump covered his ass! atreides1 May 2017 #1
He is still commander malaise May 2017 #2
Like in Viet Nam--they are destroying the city to "save it." tblue37 May 2017 #3
Suffer Little Children... AngryAmish May 2017 #4
This is the strike that was planned in the dining room in Mar a Lago? yardwork May 2017 #5
Not sure malaise May 2017 #6

atreides1

(16,079 posts)
1. Trump covered his ass!
Thu May 25, 2017, 09:15 PM
May 2017

By giving the generals on the ground the authority to do what they felt was necessary, Trump has dumped this and every other attack that kills civilians right in the laps of the commanders!

Collateral damage, remember that term because the Pentagon will be using it for the next few years!!!

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