The U.S. killed over 120 civilians in one airstrike in Mosul just the other day. Women and children, mostly.
Link?
US air strike on IS killed 105 civilians in Iraq's Mosul - BBC News
While the world focuses on London terror, America has admitted killing 200 civilians in air strike in Iraq
View: https://www.democracynow.org/2017/3/27/more_than_1_000_civilians_killed
Mosul, Iraq: civilians killed by coalition airstrikes after being told not to flee
Hold up
First paragraph says the strike detonated explosives that were rigged up in the building.
Place was booby trapped by the snipers. If they were going they wanted to take the whole thing down.
I kept reading and it says the explosives rigged around the building were at least 4 times as powerful as the weapon used in the strike
Reminds me of demolition Man.
The bad guys knew they were fucked so made sure everyone dies
The bad guys knew they were fucked so made sure everyone dies
The U.S. are claiming it was an ammo cache, not a rigged building. Regardless, thousands of civilians have been killed by these bombing campaigns, it's disingenuous to claim that no Muslims are being killed in retaliation.
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Well what do you propose they do different? Leave ISIS in charge of the city to kill everyone? What's the alternative here is my question. You see people executing civilians daily and the world said you know what fuck this these guys need to get taken out.
Should they have just left them to it?
I didn't suggest that. I said it was disingenuous to claim they are the only ones killing civilians. Our hands are tied with regards to ISIS, they need to be removed, however, we can stop the drone assassination campaign in various countries. We can change our foreign policy to stop interfering in the Middle East, stop backing Saudi Arabia, and generally not give terrorists the ammunition they need to recruit more suicide bombers.
It won't happen overnight, it will be a long process, and it will mean we will get bombed occasionally without a means of direct action, but just like with the IRA it won't stop through use of force alone. We need to combat the root causes, and one of them is blowing up civilians in air strikes.
That strike was ordered on 2 snipers in a building. How many good guys should lose thier lives by not using a strike? 1? 2? 50?
A small munition was used that unfortunately triggered a booby trap