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| U.S. says strike in Iraq ‘likely’ killed four civilians |
| 2015-11-21 |
| The incident took place last March 13th Four civilians, including possibly a child, were “likely” killed in a U.S. air strike against an Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group checkpoint in Iraq in March, an investigation released Friday found. It marks only the second such concession since the start of a coalition air campaign in Iraq and Syria - the U.S. military in November 2014 admitted accidentally killing two children during a strike in Syria. The U.S. military, which for more than a year has led the coalition bombing ISIS extremists’ positions in the two countries, investigated the Iraq incident after a woman said her car had been destroyed with five civilians in it. “The preponderance of the evidence gathered during the investigation indicates that the air (strike) likely resulted in the deaths of four non-combatants,” the U.S. military’s Central Command said in a statement. “One of the non-combatants may have been a child.” More at the link |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #3 War is supposed to be bad, and very, very, messy. That is one of the primary reasons people avoid it. Wailing and bawling about every innocent killed, due to the enemy's actions of hiding among the civilians only encourages them to do more of it. See Al-Quaeda, Taliban, Iran, Hezbollah, HamAss, and now ISIS. All were and still are encouraged to kill more civilians either directly or indirectly by hiding behind them because we allowed ourselves to get so upset about each and every one. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2015-11-21 23:11 |
| #2 "...may have been a child.” To the Progs, this means it was. Every war has left in its wake the bodies of innocents. Ugly, but inevitable. |
| Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 2015-11-21 16:30 |
| #1 how much time, $, and effort went into this hand-wringing investigation? should've just marked it up to "shit happens" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2015-11-21 14:05 |