Sunday night into Monday, US airstrikes attacked sites along the Syrian border with Iraq. The attacks killed an estimated four fighters, and at least one civilian. They also attacked several commercial and residential sites near the Qaim border crossing.
These sites were, by all indications, commercial depots, mostly responsible for food transport in the area. The Pentagon, however, claimed that they were weapons handling depots. They didn’t offer evidence for that.
There are a lot of militias around Iraq and Syria, and a lot of them probably are storing weapons in places. That does not mean, however, that the sites targeted really were weapons storage.
The US assumed the targeted Iraqi militia amounted to an Iranian proxy, and the food depots amounted to weapons storage, but it is every bit as possible that they are hitting civilian targets, and militias that are only enemies because the US keeps attacking them and calling them Iran.
What else is news? US has been burning down crops and stealing oil with their opportunistic nomad allies the Kurds for over two years already. For no other reason than that they’re sore @ss loosers having lost their 10 year long gang rape on Syria. With its powerful friends Syria will find a way get over it and start paying reparations for these illegal wars.
Agreed. However, I am not confident we all will survive to see the day. Why do you think NATO is threatening Russia to the brink of nuclear holocaust?
Yes, but, …Jason Ditz, even after all we’ve seen only just in the last 20 yrs, is still not cynical enough.
…and the history of what the Kurds have done in their pursuit of Rajava, despite Assad and Russia attempting (and even bringing Kurdish leaders to Moscow) to have a good and fair compromise with the Kurds for autonomy in an area of northern Syria in the early parts of Obama’s war on Syria, is disgusting. The stealing of Syria’s oil (so desperately needed in Syria to rebuild their economy) by the Kurds and then selling that oil to the Israelis makes me sick to my stomach. It has completely changed my view of the Kurds as they are nothing but backstabbers (from what i read, it was Assad’s father who originally let the Kurds come into northern Syria and settle to escape the Turks. So this is how they repay the country that helped them — by taking over 1/3 of Syria (land east of the Euphrates), stealing Syria’s oil and selling it to the Israelis). Nothing but backstabbers.
There is no such thing as “the Kurds” or “Syria” “the Israelis” in the way you’re using the terms.
I’m waiting for the pentagon to tell us the Syrians were using “food shields” to protect their weapons.
Got me laughing with that one! With a full mouth of cereal.
Bad visual! I can see the wet cereal flying everywhere.