Posted on 09/17/2016 3:09:51 PM PDT by Pinkbell
U.S.-led coalition air strikes killed dozens of Syrian soldiers on Saturday, Russia and a monitoring group said, putting a U.S.-Russian brokered ceasefire in jeopardy and prompting Moscow to seek an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting.
The United States military said the coalition stopped the air strike against what it had believed to be Islamic State positions in northeast Syria after Russia informed it that Syrian military personnel and vehicles may have been hit.
A U.S. military official said he was "pretty sure" targets mistakenly hit in the coalition strikes were Syrian forces.
Russia called for an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council after the air strikes, which allowed Islamic State militants to briefly overrun a Syrian army position near Deir al-Zor airport.
"We are reaching a really terrifying conclusion for the whole world: That the White House is defending Islamic State. Now there can be no doubts about that," the RIA Novosti news agency quoted Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova as saying.
She said the strikes threatened to undermine the ceasefire in Syria brokered by Russia, which has been aiding Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in the civil war, and the United States, which has backed some rebel groups.
The Russian Defence Ministry said U.S. jets had killed more than 60 Syrian soldiers in four air strikes by two F-16s and two A-10s coming from the direction of Iraq.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitoring group with contacts across the country, cited a military source at Deir al-Zor airport as saying that at least 80 Syrian soldiers had been killed.
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The officials running our military are dangerous and inept. That, or they are islamist.
Obama is and is and is.
Obozo a policy of backing IS may yet be fully exposed
So... the US breaks the ceasefire agreement... way to diminish our credibility on the world stage.
And the election is still close, between an idiot who was completely complicit in the current mess in the Middle East, and a businessman who thinks the best use of the military is for deterrence. Of course I trust the businessman to pursue peace—war is not good for resort and golf course business.
Liberals only give lip service to peace, but could not care less about it when it gets in the way of their agenda.
Obama & the Pentagon are on a campaign to get every Syrian Christian killed. Their campaign is going well.
They can say "oops" afterwords but in the mean time the air-strikes helped the same people the US arms so who believes it was a mistake ?
Notice that this US attack on the Syrian army today is being reported in the UK/French media, but not the US media.
Friendly fire or an Obama trick?
Obama, Ash Carter, and the cabal of clowns.
And we broke our own cease fire in the process.
Quagmire.
'Al Reuters' PRINTED that? Anyone checked the temperature in Hell, today?
Quagmire hell, this is a damn near apocalypse.
BHO is not going to extricate us.
I did check Google news, and I see the U.S. outlets have picked up on it.
What it is is treason, and what it is is making the likely election results moot.
Why is it that when U.S. targets ISIS there is extensive analysis and tight ROE??
BS story Pentagon is pushing. Pilgrims, face it, your government and military is on the side of jihadis, once again. Better enjoy the last vestiges of Western Christian civilization while you have it.
So what’s their goal?
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