How the U.S. Hid an Airstrike That Killed Dozens of Civilians in Syria

[George II]

Source: NY Times

Nov. 13, 2021
Updated 1:33 p.m. ET

In the last days of the battle against the Islamic State in Syria, when members of the once-fierce caliphate were cornered in a dirt field next to a town called Baghuz, a U.S. military drone circled high overhead, hunting for military targets. But it saw only a large crowd of women and children huddled against a river bank.

Without warning, an American F-15E attack jet streaked across the drone’s high-definition field of vision and dropped a 500-pound bomb on the crowd, swallowing it in a shuddering blast. As the smoke cleared, a few people stumbled away in search of cover. Then a jet tracking them dropped one 2,000-pound bomb, then another, killing most of the survivors.

It was March 18, 2019. At the U.S. military’s busy Combined Air Operations Center at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, uniformed personnel watching the live drone footage looked on in stunned disbelief, according to one officer who was there.

“Who dropped that?” a confused analyst typed on a secure chat system being used by those monitoring the drone, two people who reviewed the chat log recalled. Another responded, “We just dropped on 50 women and children.”



Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/13/us/us-airstrikes-civilian-deaths.html

[Budi]

1. Heck of a job Trump!

Trump killed more people in his 4 short years as America's Dictator, & he did it with zero remorse.

[Budi]

2. Didn't Tulsi Gabbard back him on this too?

She has a history of supporting both Putin & Assad, especially in this military bombing of Syrian people.


I had forgotten she was once DNC vice chair, back in 2015.
Yikes!

[JohnSJ]

3. I don't recall the media going through the same thing that they went through with Biden

on Afghanistan on this

[Budi]

4. They cleaned it up for him, gave it a news spot & never mentioned it again.

[JohnSJ]

6. Yup

[MustLoveBeagles]

7. This

[PerceptionManagement]

5. "They hate us, for our freedoms"

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4379586/user-clip-hate-freedoms

[hay rick]

8. This is not about Trump.

It's about military culture and media complicity The media's obsessive coverage of the Kabul airport attack presents a revealing contrast with the thunderous snoring on the Baghuz atrocity. Of course, since this is new reporting, other outlets now have the opportunity to follow up on the story...

[ancianita]

14. This is about the right wing Republican bias that exempts a Republican president from CiC criticisms

that any and every Democratic president and their secretaries of state have been run through the wringer about. It's the same bias that suddenly slows or is all about "fair and deliberative process" in the arenas of law enforcement and the judicial system.

No media have yet amplified to the level of Biden's Afghanistan coverage the Trump withdrawal from Syria. A few have stated that 19 bases were left, two of them airbases, but as for abandoned Kurds, allies, translators, journalists, or military weapons and field tanks and aircraft, very little.

There's a reason for the difference, and it's to get to the corporate goal of controlling this nation, information, government, elections, everything.

[hay rick]

15. The annual defense budget snoozefest comes to mind.

[monkeyman1]

9. this is totally about TFG ! he has put war in forefront again ! no more war's !

[childfreebychoice]

10. Rest assured, this and many similar

Incidents r well-known thru out the ME. We have no moral standings, n many parts of the sane world

[jaxexpat]

12. I remember in 2015 trying to explain that to my company's owner one day at his prayer-Nazi lunch.

He was lamenting the disarray of policies in Syria and blaming Obama for starting it. I told him we'd acted in bad faith so many times over the last 100 years in the ME that they pretty much ALL hated us no matter what we tried to do. He looked at me like I was from Mars and told me I'd be better off if I quit listening to the liberal media.

It was such a rewarding experience when, a year after we'd jointly decided that my services weren't needed any more, I got a call from him. He told me they'd had no one who could use their estimating software since I'd left and he'd pay me whatever I wanted to come in and coach some people on it. I politely declined. Social Security allows one the luxury to say things like that to gift horses upon occasion.

[bucolic_frolic]

11. That occupation would keep me up at night

Bombing Chat Room Monitor

[twodogsbarking]

13. We're still the good guys aren't we?

Aren't we?