U.S.-led forces strike Syrian troops, Russia calls emergency U.N. meeting

Reuters ^ | September 17, 2016 | Angus McDowall and Andrew Osborn

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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.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

It is hardly an excuse to say that today Russian propaganda is more pro-America than American propaganda. It is a reason why it is more acceptable to patriotic Americans (in the understanding of that term pre-Barrack Obama).

[1rudeboy]

In other words, if the propaganda matches one’s bias it’s not propaganda anymore, but something else. And the notion that Russian propaganda is not anti-American simply is laughable.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

It's not as anti-American as what you get on CNN or MSNBC or from Barack Obama on any given day. And yes, it's propaganda ( I've been calling it propaganda all along). It's just nowhere near as harmful as what the the U.S. Media and our government spew out about us. And sometimes it even is better for real American interests than what comes from our own political elite.

[1rudeboy]

I know we're getting into semantics, here. So there's no point in wasting our time over it . . . I would argue that Russian propaganda is just as anti-American as the others. The only difference being that it is tailored toward people who know the others have an anti-American bias.

One difference between the two forms of propaganda is that the Russian version actually is good (in the sense that they know what buttons to push).

[apoliticalone]

“Pullback a curtain or two and I’d bet Victoria is very much involved with Syria.”

A traitorous queen indeed working for someone, but not average Americans.

[apoliticalone]

Their concern is stripping the legacy white USA culture that made America great and replacing it with Somalis, Syrians, etc. The libs and their cuck media are a threat indeed and they have been able to convince us sheep that to complain is racist and bigoted.

[apoliticalone]

Their concern is stripping the legacy white USA culture that made America great and replacing it with Somalis, Syrians, etc. The libs and their cuck media are a threat indeed and they have been able to convince us sheep that to complain is racist and bigoted.

[gsm31]

[Eleutheria5]

Just an oil rig exploding, but I’m just practicing.