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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To make sure that the United States is locked into a war, even if Trump gets elected.
Yeah, how’d that get by the editors aka commissars at the dnc? /s
Teamobama helping team caliphate still.
The US paid for and trained Syrian Free Army ran US soldiers out of an area yesterday, on purpose. Another quagmire.
Unfortunately
See my post 26.
Even with our gee-whiz high tech Buck Rodgers gizmos, this is what happens when you apply tactical air power relying on technology and third parties with their own agendas and standards for intelligence.
This is the risk of our “no boots on the ground” policy. If you are going to drop US bombs with no US pink squishies on the ground collecting intel on targets, you have to live with the larger margin of error.
Obama has been playing with fire to score political points and he just rolled craps. Now we get to see who pays and how much.
Election day can’t come soon enough.
And it looks like the Russians are about to suppo0rt a Syrian request that occur.
That’s why I read FR. To get the latest, unbiased, Russian propaganda.
I guess the polital appointee, homo, tranny, leftist, loser, kiss-up’s who are in charge in the military aren’t up to the task. What a complete shock! Who wou8lda thunk it???
Because Trump will get elected, Obama’s starting a war with Russia. He’s taking out more than letters from keyboards.
“A U.S. military official said he was “pretty sure” targets mistakenly hit in the coalition strikes were Syrian forces.”....
....And, the Russians are “pretty sure” the globalist are desperate to stay in power....including moving up the schedule to provoke a war with Russia....Trump is a reasonable man, Hillary is a ultra-dangerous neo-con
What else do you expect from the Mullah in the White Mosque to perform so efficiently to drive the USA into a war in the Middle East. Come on now the guy has weakened th US Military, the queers demand equality and the Islamists are emboldened by America’s effeminate weak response. Islamist Obama who has sided with his Shia brothers from Iran, Pakistan and Syria are just developing the underpinings of the War of the World, whereby the Shia will rise up to defend their crazed prophet - Shia Islam’s prophet, Christian and Jews anti Christ.
“We are reaching a really terrifying conclusion for the whole world: That the White House is defending Islamic State.....”
HOW MANY VOTERS ARE AWARE THAT THIS IS TRUE?!
The US has become the EVIL EMPIRE under the O’traitor Abomistration
Money shot: no mistake.
The kind of cops that Killed Jesus are with our current government. I trust Russia more than our islamist in charge.
Do John Kerry, Susan Rice, Samantha Powers John McCain and Valerie Jarrett really think they can carry out this charade that this was an “ooops”
This band of mental misfits and war hawks is determined to bring down Assad and whatever is left of any organized government in Syria, and take us up to the edge with Russia with an undeclared illegal war in Syria
WHERE IS THE GOP CONGRESS
any guess on whether he wants war with Russia/Syria before he leaves, thus extending his stay?
is it more than to protect ISIS?
will this lead to a WHOLLY unnecessary world war.
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