According to multiple reports coming out of Iraq today, US warplanes attacked the town of Hit in Anbar Province, a town recently taken over by ISIS. But the airstrikes hit a crowded marketplace and nearby apartment buildings, killing 22 civilians and wounding 43 others.
The target appears to have been an error, with reports that an ISIS meeting was going on in a building just down the street from the one attacked. It is the first major civilian death toll in Iraq from US strikes in the new war.
Security sources in Anbar Provinces also reported an increase in civilian displacement from Hit, with hundreds of families fleeing because of the “intensification of the bombing of airplanes” as well as mortar strikes on the town.
The lack of decent intelligence on what the US is actually hitting in airstrikes is likely to give way to more such incidents in the weeks, months, and years to come, as officials continue to ratchet up the air war.
Oboomer should have enough sense to know that if he bombed
an open market, innocent civilians would be killed. This
current USG atrocity is proof that this man cares nothing
about a human life.
"…It is the first major civilian death toll in Iraq from US strikes…"
It won't be the last. And it probably wasn't an error despite protestations to the contrary.
“target appears to have been an error”
Not in my humble opinion, for surely our military can well afford to hire a mercenary forward observer to stand next to the target, their goal being to create maximum death, destruction and confusion.
For a
US created Shia government is at War with a
US created Islamic State, with both sides using
US made war materials, goal being to forever trade
US killing machines for Middle-East oil.
There is no distinction between the mentality of ISIS and the National Security State of the U.S. Govt. led by Democrat/Republican Democracy crusaders in that one kills with a sword and the other with a hell fire missile.
What are they doing? Targeting buildings in a crowded city to disrupt a — meeting? What is going on? ISIS has ammunition storage — it has to. Then, there are hundreds if not thousands of gleaming Toyotas, that are roaming in the open spaces. How about taking them out. It seems ISIS is protected like a sacred cow. And how about telecommunications? Food supplies. Fsind money bags that cross over from Jordan or Saudi Arabia to bankroll the enterprise. If they keep on bombing more markets, deserts or rocks — that will start looking mighty fishy. And by the way, we hear moaning about how long will this last. They promise a delightfully long, long war. Perhaps just in case that the end of quantitative easing brings more pain then ordinary "little people" who just want "jobs, jobs, jobs" can really appreciate.