US military officials issued a statement denying reports of a US drone strike against an Iraqi militia’s truck in eastern Syria. The military claims it is an attempt to spread disinformation and discredit the US.
The attack was reported Sunday by both Syria’s state media and the militia Ketaib Sayyid al-Shuhada. They reported that a US drone attacked and destroyed the truck, which was hauling food at the time. They also reported that there were no casualties.
The story tracked, because the militia, nominally a “pro-Iran militia,” was one of the Iraqi factions the US had attacked recently to “deter Iran.” The US hadn’t commented on the attack, which was unusual, and now they say it didn’t happen.
This may suggest a misunderstanding of what happened, or may simply reflect the US trying to control the narrative and avoid any backlash for hitting a truck full of food.
“This may suggest a misunderstanding of what happened, or may simply
reflect the US trying to control the narrative and avoid any backlash
for hitting a truck full of food.”
For me, the latter is more likely.
Agreed. I was waiting for them to copy and paste the explanation from the previous narrative, “message to Iran.” I guess they decided to mix it up a bit by denying it happened as if it gives them anymore credibility whatsoever.
My first thoughts too. But normally they’d just deny the truck was full of food or say that’s how the “terrorists” transfer weapons. Maybe the US is innocent and it was a false flag attack trying to blame the US. Ok, that was a joke. But usually US military officials just lie about the circumstances and not whether they did it or not.
Never believe anything until its been officially denied.