Syrian barrel bomb strikes hit six different districts in the northern city of Aleppo, killing at least 37 people, including at least 16 children. Large numbers of people were also wounded.
As Syria’s civil war has dragged on, Syria’s military is relying more and more on barrel bombs to hit entrenched rebel targets. The makeshift munitions are just oil barrels full of explosives rolled out of the back of a helicopter.
The bombs are powerful, but extremely inaccurate, and tend to careen off target quite often, which in densely populated territory is a recipe for high civilian casualties.
This is the second major round of barrel bomb strikes in metro Aleppo this month, with a previous round targeted at a rebel headquarters likewise missing, hitting a nearby market and killing around 50 people.
You are relying on: "The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) " for information and you re passing it as factual? I would think by now that you should know better. This group was formed to propagate disinformation to discredit Syria and promote Western intervention. Just ask Raimondo.
And please Jason, don't feign indignation later when this story is discredited like so many congressmen did after the Iraq invasion when they knew damn well the pretext was fabricated!
Pardon me for not believing this story. Why would the Syrian government roll barrels of explosives out of its military helicopters? Why should I believe that the Syrian military would resort to the use of such obviously inaccurate and stupid means of delivering munitions against specific targets? For more than the last half-century, all militaries throughout the world have had attack helicopters armed with machine guns and rocket launchers which are obviously superior to rolling barrels out of the door of a helicopter. As a Korean War veteran, this story would not have passed the laugh test in 1953, much less in 2013.
running low on supplies and time.
Ditz in his most Orwellian mode.
As usual, when reporting on his beloved head-chopping, cannibal and now mostly foreign "freedom fighters" (mercenaries) and the army of the legitimate government of Syria, Ditz rely 100% on "media" from the regimes supplying and training the former and is proven to spew outright lies, propaganda and falsifications on the latter. Hence, no report on "barrel bombs" from SAA are to be found in any media but from those in war with Syria. Not even from independent sources and known such reporters on the ground, nada. Ditz and Bandar-Bush´s "freedom fighters" are resorting to revenge attacks for loosing the war, not on SAA and the Syrian armies but on civilians from every town and scene they are ousted.
What is the point with "Antiwar" if it allows no other sources of information but the same ones the western regimes supporting the merc´s are offering?
"What is the point with 'Antiwar,' if, in my imagination, it allows no other sources of information but the same ones supporting a propaganda line that runs counter to the propaganda line I prefer?"
There, fixed that for ya.
Why no independent source of this information?
Obviously it was created in the minds of well-paid US psych-ops working on war propaganda?
The Syrian Army has bombs, grenades and anything required, so why should they use such primitive stuff?
The Syrian army is advised not to attack terrorists when civilians are in danger – without this rule, the US-PROXY-terrorists would be killed to 90 percent within a few days in whole Syria. The Syrian army has 2 millions of solders, against some ten-thousands of intruders who hide in civil cloths and use civilians as shields, they have no problem. But the can destroy the country and also kill children to blame the government.
This whole guerrilla wars (sold as civil war) have been planned by USA and UK many years before. Also such "sources" do belong to this plan and conducting this war – including the fake versions for media in NATO-countries.
Anything is proofed: http://08oo.wordpress.com/2012/05/30/key-reasons-….
Would USA let Al Qaeda occupy the capitol and withe house without bombing them?
According to those US-Hired stupid killers, they will come to USA when they have finished Assad 😀
May be we see at least some examples.
BBC, Ditz? Really?
How about going there yourself? Al-Qaeda wouldn´t mind having such a hard-core fan doing their PR for them..
USA's official policy, literally: Keep the war going for as long as possible.