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Report: US-led strikes in Iraq, Syria killed 15,000+ IS Lions of Islam, 459 civilians
2015-08-05
Yes, dear Reader, you are expected to be horrified that the error rate is about 3%, an unknown number of which were human shields.
[AlAhram] US-led Arclight airstrikes targeting the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 group in Iraq and Syria have likely killed at least 459 civilians over the past year, a report by an independent monitoring group said Monday.

The report by Airwars, a project aimed at tracking the international Arclight airstrikes targeting the holy warriors, said it believed 57 specific strikes killed civilians and caused 48 suspected "friendly fire" deaths. It said the strikes have killed more than 15,000 Islamic State holy warriors.
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  And how many innocent civilians would those 15,000 have killed had they been left in place? Or are they getting paid to do nothing?
Posted by: gorb   2015-08-05 12:21  

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