The Pentagon is apparently following Assads, Israels and Irans tactic of dismissing entire populations as terrorists as a method of denying any civilian death toll... U.S. Won’t Admit to Killing a Single Civilian in the ISIS War 24-01-2015: Civilian deaths, a keystone metric of the last war in Iraq, has now become the statistic no one wants to talk about. Five months and 1,800-plus strikes into the U.S. air campaign against ISIS, and not a single civilian has been killed, officially. But Pentagon officials concede that they really have no way of telling for sure who has died in their attacks‚—and admit that no one will ever know how many have been slain. “It’s impossible for us to know definitively if civilians are killed in a strike. We do everything we can to investigate. We don’t do strikes if we think civilians could be there. But we can’t have a perfect picture on what’s going on,” one Pentagon official explained to The Daily Beast. Stuart Jones, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, told al Arabiya that U.S. and coalition strikes in Iraq and Syria have killed 6,000 ISIS fighters. That no civilians could be among that figure strikes observers and even military officials as all but impossible. Yet neither the Iraqi and Syrian governments nor the Congress are pushing U.S. military for answers. And with no American ground troops to assess the damage of the air campaign, human rights groups and Pentagon officials alike admit that one casualty of the war itself is an accurate breakdown of who has been killed in it.
Posted on: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 13:22:57 +0000
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