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2022-01-22 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

NYT frisson: Risking thousands, in 2017 US targeted massive Syria dam it claimed was on ‘no strike’ list

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Posted by trailing wife 2022-01-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [20 views ] Top
File under: Islamic State

Posted by Raj 2022-01-22 00:39|| 2022-01-22 00:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Lt. Gen. Stephen J. Townsend emphatically denied the accusation, saying that "the Tabqa Dam is not a coalition target."

Oh look, another lying general. How unusual.

the US military covered up a covert army cell that repeatedly killed Syrian civilians during the campaign against Islamic State.

I thought it was common knowledge that the US government allied with not only mass murderers, but Al-Qaeda in Syria. People don't know that?

The strikes in Baghuz, in Syria’s east, targeted a group of women and kiddies huddled by a river, who had been identified as such by Air Force personnel monitoring the area.

These ROE have been in effect for a long time. Any gathering of military-aged males is a target. Oh, they made an oopsie! Doh! Innocent women and children died? LOL, boy, their face is sure red! Just call them fumble-fingers!

Posted by Sheter the Lesser9291 2022-01-22 02:09|| 2022-01-22 02:09|| Front Page Top

Posted by Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 2022-01-22 03:45|| 2022-01-22 03:45|| Front Page Top

#4 Standard lies by half-truths. First statement implies they targeted civilians, second statement makes it clear it was collateral damage -- against war criminals who routinely use civilian shields.

All anonymous sources as well.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-01-22 10:58|| 2022-01-22 10:58|| Front Page Top

#5 Who thinks any infrastructure will be spared if CONUS is ever attacked by a peer opponent?

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-01-22 11:09|| 2022-01-22 11:09|| Front Page Top

#6 All anonymous sources as well.

"Anonymous sources" means either hard-hitting, in-depth reporting OR that someone somewhere decided RIGHT NOW was a good time to leak this particular story to the media.

Posted by SteveS 2022-01-22 11:12|| 2022-01-22 11:12|| Front Page Top

#7 In March 2017, ISIL warned of the dam's imminent collapse[37] after the towers attached to the dam were bombed by US Special Operations during a joint US/SDF operation to capture it on March 26, 2017

I remember the news of the 'imminent failure' of the dam. You'd think somebody would've said why it was in danger back in 2017.

Posted by Bobby 2022-01-22 14:46|| 2022-01-22 14:46|| Front Page Top

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