The United Nations has announced it is suspending all humanitarian aid convoys into Syria, after one of the convoys suffered an attack near Aleppo yesterday, a strike which destroyed a number of trucks and killed at least 14 aid workers.
The UN said they can’t confirm that the incident was an airstrike, though that appears likely to be the case. Both Syria and Russia, however, have denied conducting such a strike in the area or deliberately targeting the convoy, which has led to some speculation it was a rocket artillery attack.
UN officials warned that attack would likely amount to a war crime, and condemned whoever carried it out as “cowards.” The strikes came not long after the Syrian government withdrew from the ceasefire, and were to deliver supplies to the Nusra Front-held half of Aleppo.
The aid included wheat flour, medical supplies, and clothing. The spokesman for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said that a hospital was also destroyed in the strike, which was where the medicine was being delivered.
The Russians are pointing out that the pictures from the site show burning trucks, but no sign of any heavy explosions as the large ordinance of an airstrike would cause. No craters from explosions. No signs of blast wave effects from large explosions. Nothing like that at all in the pics.
And I wouldn’t believe the BBC if they said the sun was going to set in the west tonight.
But you’ll believe the Russians when they say America bombed Syrian regime positions.MY point exactly you really wanna know why we’re an exceptional country because we own up to our mistakes we don’t lie to the world and expect people to believe it.I bet you don’t believe the Russians are arming the rebels that shot that passenger jet out of the sky over Ukraine either huh???Pathetic
I believe it, every matter, fact and thing in it, which is why I run for daylight and fly with eagles. So, why are you so stuck in darkness, does it have anything to do with excessive wealth?
Jason Ditz fiction
“they can’t confirm that the incident was an airstrike,
though that appears likely to be the case.
Now if Russian media shows pictures giving absolute proof that the aid trucks suffered fire damage but no explosions, if the UN admits that they have no evidence of any explosions and if only Western mainstream media is pushing the propaganda of explosions, is not Jason Ditz always staying on the safe side by feeding us a Western media slant a most disgusting stab in the back?
In short, I want his job, how about it?
“In short, I want his job, how about it?”
Highly unlikely. The job requires more than pontificating and bellyaching.
Parroting the Western media narrative, this is a job that requires a childlike mind that absorbed all the Empire brainwash fed to it by public school as a child, absorbed all the exceptionalism fed to it by an Empire college, a mind that has a willingness to please the rich, by burning up our emotional capital so that as they please may our wars of plunder be executed by the rich.
I think the rebels probably staged a false flag operation to give the Russians and Assad a black eye. It is widely speculated the rebels were responsible for the gas attack that killed Syrians a few years back.
The rebels would also benefit if the starving masses were not fed or given medicine while they watch the civilians die one by one.
Our track record in the region is one of creating chaos…Iraq, Libya, Lebanon and Syria…follows the Israeli policy of eliminating the strong man dictator so that infighting will lessen the ability of Israel’s neighbors to support Palestinians.
And I guess you believe 911 was staged also any PROOF of anything you’re saying???No I didn’t think so just another attempt to DEFEND a bunch of savages bombing hospitals and babies yuck
Is Putin the problem in Syria? “At some point there’s going to be a terrorist diaspora out of Syria like we’ve never seen before,” FBI Director Comey said.
Just ask, Who were the instigators of the Syrian genocide? It should be obvious to anyone who pays it attention and thought that the Syrian “rebels,” with their extensive supplies of weaponry, such as anti-tank missiles, and a complete command structure, had state supporters. The state supporters include NATO members, U.S., Britain, and Turkey, and Saudi Arabia. The plan was to topple Arab dictators in the Arab Spring, including Libya, Egypt and then Syria. Hillary proclaimed herself the she liberator of Libya when she said of Gaddafi, “We came, we saw, he died.” The Benghazi episode was about weapons trafficking of the Libyan military arsenal through Turkey into Syria, with the eventual help of Egypt’s replacement leader, the Muslim Brotherhood’s Morsi. But in December 2011 before the Benghazi episode, Sibel Edmonds reported that Islamist fighters were trained by the U.S. and Turkey back in May 2011 a few months before NATO overthrew Gaddafi.
What was the U.S. role? Sibel Edmonds says the U.S. was the director and producer of the play. Remember Obama and NATO member Britain overthrew Gaddafi, and Obama wouldn’t wait for the scheduled elections in Egypt. He insisted Mubarak step down immediately and elections immediately, with the expected result that the Muslim Brotherhood’s Morsi would win election. When Obama spoke in Cairo, he had insisted that members of the Muslim Brotherhood, outlawed in Egypt after the assassination of Anwar Sadat, be given front row seats. There he identified himself as a Christian, yet included a curious parenthetical in his description of the story of Isra: “when Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed (peace be upon them) joined in prayer.” He referred to America as having a partnership with Islam (not Egypt), and at the UN Obama said, “The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.”
The Obama administration admitted in congressional testimony that it funneled over 600 tons of weapons to Islamist fighters in Syria. From one article (WSJ): “The utter failure of Western policy in both Libya and Syria has to be seen for what it is: not just a political blunder but a humanitarian crime.”
US and NATO troops train on the Syrian border, May 2011 a few months before NATO overthrew Gaddafi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNzSmIdr3JY