The Pentagon has once again offered a new statement on the civilian casualties which have resulted from the US-led coalition air war against ISIS territory in Iraq and Syria, adding 15 more “unintentional civilian deaths” in the month of November, bringing the official death toll overall to 188.
As has been true throughout the war, the official US figures are dramatically lower than the estimates from monitor groups, and indeed far lower than what has been documented by the media, with most of the incidents not even being fully investigated by the US, but just deemed “non-credible.”
Exactly how much larger the death toll is remains a matter of some speculation, but monitors like Air Wars have suggested the toll at about 2,100 civilians killed overall, and even more conservative estimates put the figure around 1,000 reflective of just how absurdly low the official figure is.
This huge discrepancy is reflective not just of the Pentagon systematically dismissing a large portion of incidents as “non-credible,” but of lowering the death tolls in even the incidents they do admit to. The Manbij killlings, for instance, were 56 killed at the low end, with locals saying it could be as many as 200 at the high end. When the US finally got around to including the figure in their report, they would admit only to “up to 24” killed.
This new report only goes through November, and does not include multiple documented incidents in December, including two incidents in which US warplanes hit hospitals in Mosul.
You want to down play the story when US. bombs a hospital But if Russia or Israel answer a attack You call it murder of women and children
Israel answers sporadic inaccurate rudimentary rockets with F-16s and mortars. They aren’t killing terrorists either, but Gazans who are on that Israeli-imposed “starvation diet”, as one Israeli leader called it. The Gazans are more like the persecuted who rightfully rose during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. To compare the Gazans with ISIS is really bad.
Israel’s slaughter of innocents is at the pleasure of the American people. Keep that in mind at least.
It is clear now more than ever that this country is run by the military-industrial-complex …
What is also clear is that the Republican party in the US now stands completely unrestricted.
Some of us may equate that to the rise of the 3rd. Reich. Dawg help us get through the next 4 years with a mad psychopath at the wheel!
3rd Reich? Are you perhaps referring to the genocidal maniacs that run the USA (zionists)?
What is this? Proactive propaganda suggesting 15 civilian deaths to cover up hundreds? Were the half million civilian deaths in Iraq reported 15 at a time? LOL
luv from Canada.
Firing inaccurate rudimentary rockets is terrorism . And being Muslim you can be sure they fire these from hospitals and schools .So they can claim to be victims rather than terrorists . Look at all the countries around Israel All Islamic counties do any of those countries look safer to you . Seems to me Muslims don’t behave very well unless some one forces them .