Pentagon spokesman Rear Admiral John Kirby offered new details today on the US airstrikes against ISIS around the Syrian Kurdish border town on Kobani (Ayn al-Arab in Arabic), claiming the US believes it has killed “hundreds” of ISIS fighters in the region.
The Pentagon has escalated the number of strikes in and around Kobani repeatedly over the past week, despite officials maintaining that the town itself is “not a priority.”
Kirby not only claimed the hundreds killed overall in US strikes in the area, but 39 killed in the past two days, though other officials appeared to concede that the town is still expected to fall as ISIS keeps pouring more and more reinforcements into the area.
Kobani is valuable to ISIS both as another border crossing into neighboring Turkey, and as the last holding of the Kurds west of ISIS territory. The rest of Syrian Kurdish territory is in the far northeast of Syria.
Riiight…
The Pentagon: Well, we killed a bunch of people, and they were in that area, so let's call them ISIS fighters. How's that sound?
First of all Kirby works for a regime that constantly lies and/or grossly exaggerates what they claim. So, in this case, how does he now hundreds died? Since there are no boots on the ground or proxy's in the area bombed how does he know? Also, ISIS had been taking a lot of casualties in their assault against the kurds within the city so maybe for glorification purposes Mr Kirby is including these deaths as a result of their heoric bombing just to appease the home audience?
…as another border crossing into neighbouring Turkey…
…as another border crossing into neighbouring Turkey…
ISIS = border crossing, Kurds = border not crossing. A nice NATO member
Without reliable sources on the ground it could be all civilians.
Obama and his handlers really are clueless and stupid when it comes to this sort of thing.
Can't open up a can of worms fast enough, can't win any of the wars you start, chaos is the order of the day.
To add another point, during our occupation of Iraq the many airstrikes we did had killed many civilians but our Pentagon spokespersons would lie and say all were insurgents. For example, there was an airstrike in Western Al Anbar in the late evening where it killed 45 people but our lying spokesperson General said they were all terrorists. After investigating, it turned out that it was a wedding party, but our lying General said who the heck has weddings in the middle of the desert so it couldn't be civilians not knowing his racist attitude prevented him from knowing anything about bedouins in the desert.