Posted on 02/19/2017 1:30:52 AM PST by GonzoII
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – The global anti-ISIS coalition has destroyed a major ISIS administration facility housed in a medical building in west Mosul on Friday, stating that the building was no longer being used for civilian purposes.
The five-storey building was being used as an “ISIS command and control headquarters and propaganda facility,” reads a statement released by the coalition on Saturday.
The Bab Sinjar facility “was located in the Al Jumhuri medical community complex,” the statement detailed.
The coalition stated that they had confirmed the building was being used as a military command only and “civilians were no longer accessing the site” before conducting the airstrike. The statement said the airstrike was carried out with the approval of the Iraqi government.
ISIS regularly uses protected sites such as hospitals, schools, and religious centres in attempts to shield themselves from airstrikes.
In October, the Mosul Eye told Rudaw English that ISIS was holding Yezidi women and girls captive in the city’s hospitals, including al-Jumhuri. The historian and blogger from Mosul also reported that doctors in the hospital were being held hostage under threat of execution.
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Bill Clinton hid behind Janet Reno’s skirt. What’s the difference?
It’s about time. ISIS loves to hide behind the women and children and hospitals.
And they use ambulances to transport arms, explosives, terrorists, etc.
LOL!! Almost sounds "official".
Of course. Then the west is being made out to be the bad guys for destroying civilian targets.
Glad Iraq did this for one thing, and glad that the truth about what ISIS is using comes out.
It’s the Iraqi Kurdish perspective, and it’s true that many nations in the world have provided and are providing support today in Iraq. It’s not just a US effort.
“Coalition destroys ISIS headquarters in west Mosul hospital”
If the government of Syria had done EXACTLY the same, the headline would read (and has read):
“Syrian government forces attack hospital and kill multiple civilians”
Hopefully Trump’s people will clue him in to just how much the media is manipulating us on what’s going on there.
Perfidy -one of the big Law of War no-no’s. They deserved everything they got.
The enemy adapts to our rules of engagement.
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