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Report: US-led strikes against Islamic State in Iraq, Syria have killed at least 459 civilians
US News & World Report ^ | August 3, 2015 | By VIVIAN SALAMA and ZEINA KARAM

Posted on 08/03/2015 1:35:28 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

BAGHDAD -- U.S.-led airstrikes targeting the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria have likely killed at least 459 civilians over the past year, a report by an independent monitoring group said Monday.

The report by Airwars, a project aimed at tracking the international airstrikes targeting the extremists, said it believed 57 specific strikes killed civilians and caused 48 suspected "friendly fire" deaths. It said the strikes have killed more than 15,000 Islamic State militants.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: arabspring; iran; iraq; israel; leadingfrombehind; lebanon; syria; waronterror

1 posted on 08/03/2015 1:35:28 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Obviously Bush’s fault, not the Peace Prize winner’s.


2 posted on 08/03/2015 1:39:08 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Biden, the only potential presidential candidate Roger Rabbit would look like an intellectual compared to.


3 posted on 08/03/2015 1:45:34 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Moving day: June 16th, 2015. LEFT >>>HOPE and CHANGE>>> RIGHT / [DOPE and STRANGE stay home].)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Obama sez...

“But I was pretty certain and continue to be pretty certain that there are going to be bumps in the road because, you know, in a lot of these places, the one organizing principle has been Islam...”


4 posted on 08/03/2015 1:47:17 PM PDT by moovova
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Define these civilians.


5 posted on 08/03/2015 1:50:25 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Telepathic Intruder

You won’t see mass protests. 0 is democrat.


6 posted on 08/03/2015 1:50:48 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

U.S.-led airstrikes targeting the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria have likely killed at least 459 civilians over the past year....

Well that’s pretty good considering they’re in a war.


7 posted on 08/03/2015 1:52:27 PM PDT by caww
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To: Telepathic Intruder

The use of such a specific number coupled with no error bar info speaks of math illiteracy...e.g. ...liberal buffoon alert.


8 posted on 08/03/2015 1:52:44 PM PDT by Da Coyote (Di)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The airstrikes have killed over 15,000 Islamic State militants.

459 civilians killed by airstrikes is plausible.
15,000 militants = complete Biden.


9 posted on 08/03/2015 1:57:48 PM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Obama the COWBOY - shootin' from the hip - killin' civilians.

Next thing we know is he'll be torturin' women and chilren, cuttin; off ears in the manner of Jenjis Kahn.

10 posted on 08/03/2015 2:04:04 PM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (Hunga Tonga-Hunga.)
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To: EEGator

All muzzies, more than likely. And while we don’t like killing civilians, this is WAR - a religious war. We’ll have to kill a lot more people before we prevail.

I am looking for a presidential candidate that understands how serious this war is and WHAT this war is really all about. It’s East vs. West. Islam vs. Christendom.

The time will come soon when the CHRISTIAN forces of our CHRISTIAN republic will be called to do battle with the enemy in the East. We will win only if we go to war IN THE NAME OF JESUS. The sign of the cross must be a prominent part of the way we fight that war — put it on the rifles, the tanks, the planes, the artillery pieces. Let them know that we understand this is a holy war.

When the time comes to do that, we won’t want atheists on the battlefield complaining about it and calling their lawyers on cell phones! We need to keep all liberals OUT of the fight. They cannot be counted on to be on our side.


11 posted on 08/03/2015 2:10:59 PM PDT by GodAndCountryFirst
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