Posted on 03/24/2017 8:16:52 PM PDT by PotatoHeadMick
The United Nations has raised grave concerns about reports of high civilian casualties in the Iraqi city of Mosul.
A senior UN official in Iraq said she was stunned by accounts of "terrible loss of life", after claims that at least 200 people had been killed in an air strike by the US-led coalition.
US warplanes are supporting the Iraqi Army's mission to retake Mosul from the Islamic State (IS).
US media reports say an investigation is under way.
It is not known exactly when the deaths are alleged to have happened.
However, reporters in western Mosul's Jadideh neighbourhood said they saw 50 bodies being pulled out of buildings on Friday, after they were razed in air attacks earlier in March.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
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Gary Johnson “What is Aleppo”?
Yep. ‘Civilians’ my old can. How many of ‘em were dancing in the streets as the Towers came down? Nice shooting fellas.....keep stackin’ ‘em up.
If it wasn’t a US led airstrike, the BCC CONCERNS WOULD DISAPPEAR.
BBC - British Backstabbers for Communism.
I believe a good rule of thumb for anyone interested in judging the value of a story posted on FR is to begin with the source. In this case we have the BBC — which is presently about as trustworthy as MSNBC. Then we have its source, a UN official. Again, about as trustworthy as NBC. Then we have the reporting time frame — days after the so-called event. Finally, barring quotes, or names of individuals involved, one is dependent on hearsay. In the final analysis, did this event transpire as advertised? Who knows.
No doubt! With that chain of story tellers it has the credibility of a DC comic book as it currently stands.
Indeed they were but ‘war is hell’ and people die and buildings are destroyed, women are raped and the list goes on........it tears my heart to realize that’s what a battlefield is like.
If someone wants to get angry with the USA for doing it, I’ll accept that people are upset. The USA as in McCain, Obama and the list goes on took potshots as the Russians for their bombing activities in Aleppo.
So I guess its payback time in this area.
They all dance and celebrate like fudge-striped crease-wipes when Americans get killed. Eff them and their kids. I only wish it had been napalm.
We need a bomb that can only kill bad guys. /sarc
BBC = British Brainwashing Corporation
Maybe you should have waited a week before posting this because I notice freepers don’t have much patience with muslims and their running dogs these days...I mean, if the comments are anything to go by.
ISIS kills that many on a good weekend for sport.
If these folks had been around 75 years ago, we would all have the choice of learning either German or Japanese so we could perform as proper slave labor.
Are members of ISIS aa official “state-sponsored” army? If not, would t that make them ALL “civilians”?
Just wondering.
If the casualties were “incidental” and there “was not intent”, then the UN should not be alarmed. I’m using a Comey parallel on this.
Dead mussie salute
When ISIS command and control positions are intentionally placed in, on or next to hospitals, schools, and residences it is next to impossible to NOT have high civilian casualties trying to take out those positions.
You can be sure if taking out those positions by street-by-street physical assaults by soldiers, that ISIS would be standing up those 200 civilians in the doors and windows of the positions they hold, using them as human shields. The stupid U.N. report, as this one, would IGNORE how and why the civilians enter into the line of fire, and will always blame the “attacker” regardless of how much the “attacker” is attempting to defeat the criminal.
Dead men tell no tales. And so the BBC can pretend the “50 dead bodies pulled from rubble” were innocent, when he all know damn well they weren’t.
I never hear the UN belly aching about dead civilians in the wake of ISIS.
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