British watchdog group Airwars has been collecting information about air and artillery strikes in and around the major northern Iraqi city of Mosul, and has found a substantial number of civilian casualties caused by US strikes since the Iraqi invasion began a month ago.
The group believes that the US has killed between 84 and 87 civilians in the strikes, and has injured over 160 others. The US has not offered any real comments on their casualties in Mosul strikes, but generally speaking dramatically under-reports the number killed.
Centcom didn’t respond directly to the new casualty figures, but did say that they are very careful about the attacks, saying they’re conducting “extensive checks” to avoid civilian casualties. They also bragged of hitting large numbers of ISIS targets.
Either way, the official report on casualties from the Pentagon probably won’t be out for at least six months, or longer, as there tends to be a substantial lag between the time of an incident and when it gets included in the final report. By the time of the report, major incidents that were well documented to begin with tend to be forgotten, and many are never mentioned again.
Its amazing how this site on one hand points out the ‘fake news’ and the propaganda of the neocon-leaning, owned by a CIA business partner, very pro-war, death and destruction Washington Post..
Then it turns around and cites them as a credible news source and always has a few links every day to steer internet traffic their way.
This number sounds like a signficant undercount.
What does the Washington Post have to do with this story? The attribution is for the British group Airwars.
Again, where is big mouth Samantha Powers? She rips on Assad and Russia for this. She said she is documenting what they are doing for future war crimes but don’t worry Sammy, we are documenting your war crimes as well and Obama is the biggest war criminal on the planet.
You know… This absolutely sickens me. To know that my tax dollars fund this this suffering this death and destruction upon both the innocent and the guilty upon people who never hurt me. People who have husbands and wives and children and parents. People who hate us for the destruction we have wrought upon their country. People who ask God WHY? People who bow their heads and cover their children in fear.
I wish I had the words to describe how fucking awful this truly is, but I don’t, I’m sorry.
The US military are terrorists, no different than any other terrorist group. Everybody involved in this crime needs to be held accountable.
Over and over and over again.
Wait a minute! The media didn’t confirm this with the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights!