It’s not often that Pentagon airstrikes on what they themselves admit are civilian targets in residential areas, but they found one with a Sunday morning strike in the ISIS city of Mosul, where they destroyed a “cash collection and distribution point,” destroying what they believe was millions of dollars in cash.
Pentagon officials say they got dependable intelligence on the location of a giant pile of money, and spent several days conducting surveillance flights over the site to figure out when “the fewest number of civilians” would be in the area.
There appears to have been no question on the Pentagon’s part that civilians were going to die, and officials went so far as to say commanders were willing to tolerate “up to 50 civilians” killed in the attack because of how important the pile of money is.
Formally, the Pentagon wouldn’t admit to any deaths in the strikes, but privately they say initial assessments put the death toll at somewhere between five and seven civilians hit in the strike, well within their tolerance for killings.
ISIS is the most cash-flush terrorist organization in the world, and makes over $10 million monthly on an operating basis, which means this incident, while damaging, is far from crippling for the group. Pentagon officials, however, are eager to hype the attack as among their most significant yet.
It’s disgusting that the U.S. does not care about civilian deaths.
They probably think ISIS kills far more civilians than the U.S. which is false. They justify murdering civilians based on this myth.
The truth is that ISIS does not ethically cleanse Christians contrary to the sensationalist media.
It is reported that ISIS killed only 2000 civilians, many of the victims are probably killed in terrorist attacks on foreign nations, many are alleged spies, many are killed while attempting to flee from ISIS (it’s illegal to flee from ISIS unless you pay).
Both reports on how many people are killed in strikes on ISIS, and how many people are killed by ISIS, are probably heavily understated. ISIS doesn’t allow journalists and aid workers to operate, so there is really nobody counting. This is different from in Yemen where there are a lots of reports of the death and destruction taking place in Saudi airstrikes.
A ton of terrorists coming and going to get their weekly pay, yet the pay master keeps the place stationary and operates it like your neighborhood bank? Unbelievable.
In all of our wars, the goal being expansion by terrorizing the people into submission, making baby parts being our highest value targets, now all of a sudden we care about collateral blown apart civilians? Unbelievable.
Jan 12, 2016 A Deeper Look at Islamophobia in the U.S. Empire
2015 wrapped up as the most dangerous year for Muslims in America, setting records for hate crimes against them. There have been dozens of attacks on mosques, including firebombings, and physical assaults like stabbings, shootings and beatings against Muslims–and perceived Muslims–grew to the highest numbers ever recorded.
https://youtu.be/4A3DQODh-oc
Hey that’s more cash than they take off Mexican narco terrorists. And what kind of money might it be? Some of the missing billions that disappeared in Iraq? Guess it’s really untraceable now.
If Obama or Samantha Powers stopped colluding with Turkey in smuggling and selling oil for ISIS over the Turkey border, ISIS money would dry up immediately.