After over a year of US airstrikes against ISIS targets officials have admitted to only a handful of civilian deaths, though reports from independent sources have suggested that hundreds have been killed. Today, the Pentagon’s Central Command (Centcom) admitted to another four civilians killed, including a child, in a strike against Hatra, Iraq.
The strike attacked an ISIS checkpoint on the outskirts of town, destroying two civilian vehicles that were waiting to cross the checkpoint, and killing the passengers within. Centcom insists that the attack was perfectly legal under international law.
This attack was carried out by an A-10, basically a cargo plane full of guns with very little targeting capability. An A-10 was similarly behind the recent US attack on a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Afghanistan, and Centcom is once again insisting they had no way of knowing civilians were present.
“If we knew there were civilians we would not have conducted a strike,” Patrick Ryder, the Centcom spokesman, insisted. He also said the fact that the vehicles waited at the checkpoint led the Pentagon to conclude they were “ISIS and therefore lawful targets.”
The A-10 is a fighter jet used for ground support it has excellent targeting ability and carries guided bombs, missiles, rockets, and has the giant 30mm cannon It is drastically different from the C-130 gunship used on the hospital in Afghanistan.
The name of the plane is ac-130, the armed version of the c-130 cargo plane,
not the a-10 ground attack jet.
"The strike attacked an ISIS checkpoint on the outskirts of town, destroying two civilian vehicles that were waiting to cross the checkpoint, and killing the passengers within. "
"…the fact that the vehicles waited at the checkpoint led the Pentagon to conclude they were “ISIS "
what? those silly willies in isis only stop their own military vehicles? civilians and rival "moderate"
rebels are free to pass unhindered?
This is very true!
If you can't make out a civilian from a terrorist how sure are you about
Your target and by the way, ISIS have no uniform they dress like any one
In the vicinity so every time you bomb a target your chances of not killing
Civilians are nil and your actions aren't lawful.
Nov 20, 2015 The One Thing You Need to Know About ISIS
Americans: please wake up!
https://youtu.be/vkxFT_hJCdQ
As Mao said, guerillas move within the population like fish in the sea. One of the features of a guerilla war, and one of the reasons why such wars are unwinnable, is that there is a lot of collateral damage. The rage people feel when they fall victim to an attack aimed at a group they have nothing to do with is directed against the state party carrying out the raid, which effectively drives the population into the arms of the guerillas. Thus, every time you kill a guerilla, the guy whose brother you killed by accident steps into the guerilla shoes. If US forces are making these kinds of mistakes, you can bet that the Russians are doing likewise, although we hear nothing about it.
…and the British, and the French, and the Israelis etc. That's the nature of that type of warfare, and that's why it will never work. For every terrorist you kill, you create ten more.
OMG Pentagon Offers Rare Admission Airstrike Killed Civilians in Iraq
The Pope is a Roman Catholic! Hitler was the Geman dictator! The Earth goes round the sun!
Does it really matter how civilians are killed,or type of missiles or planes a-10 or ac -13 ?The U.S. was so pleased with itself killing 500000 innocent Iraqi children using no planes or missiles nor drones.
November 6, 2015 Mass migration pre-planned as a soft power weapon in 2000 U.S. intelligence report
A December 2000 U.S. National Intelligence Council (NIC) report, written by the council’s Strategic Futures Group, outlines the use of coerced migrants as a U.S. soft power option. The present migrant crisis in Europe is a direct result of the implementation of mass migration as a U.S. soft weapon arising from American support for the Islamist destabilization of Syria, Libya, Iraq, and other countries of the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia.
http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/16759#stha…