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Musicmystery -> RE: Strike mistakenly kils 18 Syrian rebels allied with the U.S. (4/13/2017 1:44:31 PM)
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/13/world/middleeast/syrian-fighters-airstrike-american-military.html?emc=edit_na_20170413&nl=breaking-news&nlid=69606674&ref=cta
WASHINGTON — An airstrike by the American-led coalition fighting the Islamic State killed 18 Syrian fighters allied with the United States, the military said on Thursday.
The strike, on Tuesday in Tabqah, Syria, was the third time in a month that American-led airstrikes may have killed civilians or allies, and it comes even as the Pentagon is investigating two previous airstrikes that killed or wounded scores of civilians in a mosque complex in Syria and in a building in the west of Mosul, Iraq.
Tuesday’s strike was requested by coalition allies who were on the ground near Tabqah, the United States Central Command, which oversees combat operations in the Middle East, said in a statement. The fighters had called in the airstrikes and “identified the target location as an ISIS fighting position,” it said, using another name for the Islamic State.
The Central Command statement said that the target location turned out to be a “fighting position” for the Syrian Democratic Forces, who have been fighting the Islamic State alongside the United States.
It was unclear whether the strike came from an American warplane or one from the other coalition partners.
“The coalition’s deepest condolences go out to the members of the S.D.F. and their families,” Central Command said in the statement, calling the episode “tragic.” Military officials said the cause is being investigated.
How is this either political or religious
You want to know how conflicts between Syria and ISIS are political or religious? Seriously?
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This may not be a suitable forum for you.
It is "newsworthy" for you and the New York Slimes because mindless leftist trash like you feel that you can use it
But it has nothing to do with this forum. It isn't political, and it isn't religious
No one even knows for sure whose error it was, though the Slimes makes a typical heavy handed attempt to blame the Americans who are fighting ISIS (now that a Republican is in the White House, of course)
Despite your creaming your pants over these deaths it is propaganda, nothing more
Nothing political about it, nothing at all religious
OK, I'll play along for a minute.
1) It's a battle among states and entities claiming to be states. That's political.
2) The heart of that battle is disagreements over how Islam should be implemented at the state leve. That's religious and political.
Next, want to know why the sun has to do with thermodynamics and astrophysics?
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