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US: Anti-IS strikes have killed 603 civilians in war against ISIS
2017-07-08
...also known as human shields, making ISIS responsible for putting them in danger according to the Geneva Conventions...
[Ynet] The Pentagon says US-led coalition Arclight airstrikes have killed a total of 603 civilians since the air campaign against 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group was launched in 2014.

The report released on Friday says coalition strikes between April 19 and May 23 that were assessed during the month of May killed 119 civilians.

The report says nearly half of all those civilian deaths occurred in or near djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, but did not further specify locations. The coalition defines a credible casualty assessment as one that "more likely than not" resulted in civilian deaths.

The report added that in each case "all feasible precautions were taken and the decision to strike complied with the law of armed conflict."

Allegations of civilian casualties have spiked in Iraq and Syria in recent months as military operations against IS in Iraq's Mosul and also Syria have accelerated.
Posted by:trailing wife

#2  Number of Frenchmen, women and children killed from '42-'45 in the liberation? Thousands.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2017-07-08 16:06  

#1  Yea, well, too bad
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-07-08 09:31  

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