| Civilian human shields, camp followers and hard boys out of uniform, oh my! And all are credited to the terror group that chose not to keep them out of harms way, according to the Geneva Conventions that ISIS is not signatory to, not to the American coalition that struck them down while going after the bad guys. |
s 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
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
group in Iraq and Syria, according to a Pentagon report released Thursday.
Five more strikes, all in Syria, were investigated over the past month and found to have resulted in 15 civilian additional civilian deaths, the report stated.
However,
if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning...
monitoring groups say the number of civilian casualties from coalition airstrikes in the fight against IS group is far higher than the Pentagon acknowledges.
Since August 2014, more than 5,000 civilians have been killed as a result of coalition airstrikes in Iraq and Syria, according to the London-based Airwars organization that tracks civilian deaths in the anti-IS group operation.
The majority of civilian casualty allegations are currently from coalition airstrikes in Syria. The Pentagon says they are still assessing 695 reports of civilian casualties, more than 400 of which are from strikes carried out in Syria.
US-backed Syrian forces retook the city of Raqqa from IS groupncontrol in October and pushed IS fighters out of a swath of territory along the Euphrates river valley in the following weeks.
Each investigation that found an allegation credible determined it was "more likely than not" that a coalition strike resulted in a civilian casualty, the report stated.
"Although all feasible precautions were taken and the decision to strike complied with the law of armed conflict, unintended civilian casualties unfortunately occurred," the Pentagon added.