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| Pentagon shifts blame to ISIS for 100 civilians killed during US airstrike in Mosul |
| 2017-05-26 |
| [RT] More than 100 non-combatants were killed when a US ...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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... fighters began shooting at Iraqi forces. The probe found that the March 17 ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... 's al-Jadida neighborhood triggered secondary kabooms from devices planted by Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIS) fighters. Those secondary blasts, according to the military, caused the concrete building to collapse, leading to more than 100 civilian casualties, which likely represents the largest single incident of civilian deaths since the US air campaign against IS began in 2014. Air Force Brig. Gen. Matthew Isler, the lead investigator of the probe, said 101 civilians in the building were killed and that another four died in a nearby building. He says 36 civilians remain unaccounted for. Although the investigation acknowledges the civilian deaths caused, it appears to assign blame to Islamic State, with the probe noting that the episode began when two IS snipers began firing at troops from Iraq's Counterterrorism Service. The Pentagon said military Sherlocks led by Isler visited the site of the deadly |
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