Sunday, November 14, 2021

Today, for the first time, the New York Times published a report about a devastating air strike in Syria by the U.S. in 2019 in which 60 women and children were killed. It is something that the U.S. Military actively tried to conceal, so says the Times. 

The Baghuz strike was one of the largest civilian casualty incidents of the war against the Islamic State, but it has never been publicly acknowledged by the U.S. military. The details, reported here for the first time, show that the death toll was almost immediately apparent to military officials. A legal officer flagged the strike as a possible war crime that required an investigation. But at nearly every step, the military made moves that concealed the catastrophic strike. The death toll was downplayed. Reports were delayed, sanitized and classified. U.S.-led coalition forces bulldozed the blast site. And top leaders were not notified.

https://www.firstpost.com/world/how-the-us-hid-an-airstrike-that-killed-dozens-of-civilians-in-syria-10136341.html




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