While the western media and public obsess with the nasty terrorist attack in London they completely ignore a tragedy 50 times greater caused by US and coalition bombing of civilians in Mosul. But that’s ok because they were ‘our bombs’.. racist hypocrisy as usual, even more blatant when compared to the daily outcry when Assad’s airforce bombed Aleppo with connivance by the ”evil” Russians.
That’s an enormous toll, of course, but is reported from several sources telling largely the same story, including that a single US airstrike against a large building full of civilians in Mosul killed over 130 people, while the other 100 or so were killed in the surrounding area.
Central Command said that they were “aware of the loss of life” and were carrying out “further investigation,” while insisting that all of their strikes against Mosul overnight “comply with the Law of Armed Conflict.” Centcom’s official report for the overnight strikes claimed they’d hit “11 fighting positions” and didn’t mention killing hundreds of civilians.
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Britain’s Daily Telegraph reported that the civilian death toll was mostly women and children, saying that the bulk of the bodies were pulled from just three adjoining residences in the Jadida neighborhood. They speculated the civilians were “human shields” for ISIS snipers in the area.
If the toll is ultimately confirmed by Centcom, which is a huge “if” given how often well documented incidents never end up on their official reports, it would roughly double the number of civilians the US has admitted to killing in Iraq and Syria over the ISIS war. NGOs have suggested the US strikes have killed well over 2,000 civilians already, and that’s not including last night’s massive toll.
By Jason Ditz / Republished with permission / AntiWar.com / Report a typo JOIN THE DISCUSSION
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