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US-led coalition says it killed 1,319 civilians in anti-IS war
[Rudaw] The US-led coalition said Thursday it had unintentionally killed at least 1,319 civilians in strikes during its fight against the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 group in Iraq and Syria since 2014.
In five years? Five goes into 13 twice, carry the three... that’s 263 plus someone not completely dead each year — pretty good for an active war in two countries with millions of people wandering through the battlefields...
How many did the Islamic State kill?
The figure is far lower than the corpse counts given by groups that have monitored the conflict in the two countries.

"The coalition conducted 34,514 strikes between August 2014 and the end of May 2019," it said in a statement.
...or four hundredths of a person per airstrike. There must be lots of civilians wandering around missing a big toe or their left earlobe after our lot came thundering overhead.
During this period, it "assesses at least 1,319 civilians have been unintentionally killed by coalition strikes."

The coalition, which has repeatedly insisted it does all it can to avoid civilian deaths, said it was still assessing 159 additional reports of civilian casualties.

Airwars, an NGO that monitors civilian casualties from air strikes worldwide, estimates more than 8,000 civilians have been killed in coalition raids.

In a report released in late April, Amnesia Amnesty International and Airwars found that coalition air and artillery strikes killed more than 1,600 civilians just in the four-months blitz to oust IS from the Syrian city of Raqqa.
Posted by: trailing wife 2019-06-29
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