An early dawn US air raid against the Syrian city of Shadadi ended with airstrikes hitting the city’s bakery, and killing 15 civilians who were lining up outside to buy bread just before the bakery opened, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Shadadi is considered a strategically important city for ISIS, as it is along the Iraq-Syria border and is used as a logistics hub for ISIS forces operating between the two fronts. There were reportedly strikes around the outskirts of Shadadi, but the only casualties reported were the civilians at the bakery.
It was unclear why the bakery was attacked, and the US isn’t commenting yet, though historically when the US attacks ISIS-held towns they focus on places with a lot of people, assuming they’re “command” structures. In this case, it was a purely civilian target.
This is the latest in a growing number of civilian deaths in attacks on ISIS-held towns, as the US-led coalition as well as the Russian military both pick up their air war against northern Syria. Though the US regularly faults Russia over the civilians killed in their strikes, they rarely touch on the substantial civilian toll of their own strikes.
“…rarely touch on the substantial civilian toll of their own strikes…”
Have to keep the “war is good” meme alive and well so there is no shortage of cannon fodder for the war parties of the America is Exceptional believers.
November 13th, 2015 NY Times Rally—Friday the 13th; Drone Papers Coverup
In June of 1971, the New York Times had the courage to initiate the publishing of Daniel Ellsburg’s “Pentagon Papers.” This brave action against the will of a criminal executive branch, combined with the principled decision by then-Senator Mike Gravel (AK) to release 4,100 pages of the Pentagon Papers into the Senate Record, helped spark a fight that led to the end of the criminal presidency of Richard NIxon and was instrumental in bringing the Indochina War to an end. The Papers documented that the war was being lost, not won, and that McNamara’s “body count” metric was fraudulent and criminal.
http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2015/11/13/title-290#more40743
July 23, 2012 Children of the Drone
We’re told that predator drones armed to the teeth are keeping us safe by killing dangerous terroristson the other side of the globe, but is that really the case? Allow me introduce you to, ‘The Children of the Drone’s’!
http://www.hangthebankers.com/children-of-the-drone/
Jan 31, 2012 The girl killed by Barack Obama – she never saw it coming
So, I wonder if the little punk spokesman Kirby is going to blame Russia for this