Al Qaida allies in Aleppo singing while watching US war planes in the sky about to bomb Islamic state Muslim soldiers.
Posted on 06/06/2015 3:37:02 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
The UN Security Council expressed outrage on Friday over a recent wave of barrel-bomb attacks in Syria's northern Aleppo province that have left scores dead, AFP reports.
Russia, Syria's ally which has vetoed past resolutions against the Bashar Al-Assad regime, joined in a statement from the 15-member council condemning "all violence against civilians, and civilian infrastructure, including medical facilities."
The statement was issued following a behind-closed-doors report on Thursday by senior UN aid official John Ging, who said the attacks on Aleppo were continuing.
Ging estimated that some 3,600 people have been killed by barrel bombs in Aleppo alone since the beginning of the war, now in its fifth year, according to diplomats who attended the briefing.
The official reported that seven children were among 14 people who were killed in an attack on the day that he gave his report to the Security Council, according to AFP.
Council members "expressed outrage at all attacks against civilians, as well as indiscriminate attacks, including those involving shelling and aerial bombardment such as the use of barrel bombs, which have reportedly been extensively used in recent days," the statement said.
The United States, Britain and France have accused Assad's forces of using barrel bombs -- crude weapons made of containers packed with explosives that are dropped from helicopters.
The three countries argue that only the Damascus regime has helicopters.
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Yo, UN. What are your thoughts on children being beheaded and being burned alive? Good thing? Bad thing? A little of both?
They’re off their high horse.
They'll get back to you on that. First, of course, are the necessary meetings (catered by the host city's finest, naturally), followed by endless other meetings, then small work sessions (again catered), and endless sessions (all catered), dinners, etc., after which a study will be published - blaming Israel.
When are they going to condemn police killings here in the US of A?
Killings of police, or by police?
I was wondering when they’d get around to that.
But they’re really really quiet when Hamas shoots rockets indiscriminately into Israel ..... for a month ... and when Israel retaliates, well then here they come with their outrage!
Damn Joos. I knew it! They’re the Pamela Geller of the Middle East. They probably enjoy being the target of lone wolf idealogical zealots.
3600 people out of 200,000? Probably 90% of the dead being ISIS.
Outrage: that’s about all the U.N.produces.
Whether emanating from our media or the U.N. I am always a bit bemused about the hysteria over “barrel bombs”.
If Syria had a functioning arms industry that built nice sleek bomb casings like those made in the U.S., Russia, Sweden, or any other developed nation with a large arms industry, the dead would be just as dead, the maimed just as maimed, those bereft of the their loved ones just as grieved. But somehow, because they are in desperate straights and are obliged to use old oil drum as bomb casings, we’re supposed to be horrified of the results because they’re using “barrel bombs”.
This is the same level of moral reasoning that fancies “gun crime” is a morally meaningful category.
Exactly right.
Indiscriminate bombardments are OK unless there is a unique twist to them I guess.
Al Qaida allies in Aleppo singing while watching US war planes in the sky about to bomb Islamic state Muslim soldiers.
What would be a proper way to blow people up? Homocide bombers like Hammas? Randomly launched rockets like Hammas?
Or is it because the bombs are cheap? Would a million dollar laser guided missile work better?
AT what point is it won? Which party winning would make it a victory for the US? If everyone’s a bad guy, why not use a barrel bomb? Whomever you kill, it’s a good thing.
“They probably enjoy being the target of lone wolf idealogical zealots.”
Yup. Our favorite pastime, since the Maccabees didn’t win the world cup.
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