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| Monitor Says Russian Syria Strikes Kill More Than 2,100 |
| 2015-12-23 |
| [AnNahar] The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Tuesday that Russian air strikes have killed 2,132 people in Syria, a third of them civilians, since they began on September 30. Of those killed, 598 were fighters from the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group and another 824 from al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front, the Syrian affiliate of al-Qaeda, and other rebel groups. There were a further 710 civilians killed, of whom 161 were children and 104 women. The Britannia-based Observatory has an extensive network of informants inside Syria. It bases its tallies on Russian-caused casualties by the type of aircraft flown and the munitions used. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #7 "Monitor Says Russian Syria Strikes Kill More Than 2,100" It's a start . . . . |
| Posted by: Barbara 2015-12-23 19:33 |
| #6 No REALLY loud wailing from HRW, but then you don't bite the hand that feeds you. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2015-12-23 13:54 |
| #5 John, especially given ISIS's proclivity for embedding themselves among the civilian population, including hospitals, schools, etc. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2015-12-23 12:58 |
| #4 2/3 were Islamic fighters; only 1/3 civilians? Seems like that is successful. One can't really fight sanitary, hygienic wars and expect to bring about a conclusion to the war. There's got to be a price to pay. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2015-12-23 12:54 |
| #3 In other words they are using informants, some or most of which could be ISIS plants, and just plain ole wild ass guessing... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2015-12-23 08:06 |
| #2 I wonder how many the dead Daesh-bags would have killed by now had they not been stopped. |
| Posted by: gorb 2015-12-23 03:17 |
| #1 Somebody's doing something right. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2015-12-23 01:47 |