Hundreds poisoned in US-led coalition’s strike on IS depot in Deir ez-Zor

[BHarwana]

Hundreds poisoned in US-led coalition’s strike on IS depot in Deir ez-Zor

© AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, archive
BEIRUT, April 13. /TASS/. Hundreds of people died from poisoning after an air strike by the US-led coalition on the headquarters and the depots of the Islamic State terrorist organization (outlawed in Russia) near Deir ez-Zor, the Syrian army command said in a statement circulated by SANA news agency.

The US-led coalition struck the terrorists’ positions at 5:30 p.m. local time on Wednesday. The air strike killed a large number of terrorists, including mercenaries, the statement said.

"However, a yellow smoke rose over the depot after the bombing. This is evidence that the depot stored chemical agents," according to the document.

"As a result, hundreds of people, including civilians, died as a result of poisoning," the statement reads.


http://tass.com/world/941173

 

[Talwar e Pakistan]

So basically, the same thing happened what happened to the Syrian Regime when they claimed they bombed a missile factory which they did not know had chemicals stored.

 

[BHarwana]

The Syrian army has claimed that a US-led air strike hit poison gas supplies belonging to jihadists, releasing a toxic substance that killed 'hundreds including many civilians'.

The bombing in the eastern Deir al-Zor province late on Wednesday proved that ISIS and al Qaeda-linked militants 'possess chemical weapons', a statement by the army flashed on Thursday by Syrian state TV said.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-airstrike-killed-hundreds.html#ixzz4e85miHFF

The Syrian General Staff said that the US-led coalition struck a Daesh depot storing chemical weapons in Deir ez-Zor on Wednesday.
The Syrian military said that this fact proves that terrorists possess chemical weapons.

"The jets of the so-called US-led coalition launched a strike at about 17:30-17:50 [local time, 14:30-14:50 GMT] on a Daesh warehouse where many foreign fighters were present. First a white cloud and then a yellow one appeared at the site of the strike, which points at the presence of a large number of poisonous substances. A fire at the site continued until 22:30 [19:30 GMT]," the Syrian army's command statement obtained by Sputnik said.

According to the Syrian General Staff, the US-led coalition's strike killed several hundred people, including civilians. Hundreds were poisoned as a result of the strike on Daesh's headquarters and depot with chemical weapons.

"This confirms that Daesh and al-Nusra terrorists possess chemical weapons and are capable of using, obtaining and transporting it," the document said.

The Syrian army yet again denied possessing chemical weapons.

The news comes as Washington and its allies are blaming the Syrian government for a suspected chemical attack in the Syrian Idlib province on April 4.

Syrian opposition claimed on April 4 forces loyal to President Bashar Assad had used a chemical gas on people in the northwestern province, killing nearly 80 and injuring 200. Assad argued his government has no chemical weapons after agreeing to have them destroyed in 2013. He also ruled out having used chemicals against own people.

The Russian Defense Ministry said next day that the airstrike near Khan Shaykhun was carried out by Syrian aircraft, which struck a terrorist warehouse that stored chemical weapons slated for delivery to Iraq.
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201704131052598995-coalition-daesh-chemical-weapons-syria/

 

[TaiShang]

Now which US city should be hit because of a chemical attack on civilians? Should Chemical Trump be condemned by international community? When would Russia and China submit a joint resolution, condemning the US for using chemical weapons on ISIS held city?

Where are White Helmets?

 

[Aramagedon]

Hundreds of civilians killed in US-led air strikes on Isis targets – report

Airwars project details ‘credible reports’ of at least 459 non-combatant deaths, including 100 children, in 52 air strikes

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A US-led air strike in October in Kobani, Syria, during fighting between Syrian Kurds and Islamic State. Chris Woods, of Airwars, said: ‘You can’t have an air war of this intensity without civilians getting killed or injured.’ Photograph: Gokhan Sahin/Getty Image

Monday 3 August 2015 12.03 BSTLast modified on Saturday 8 April 2017 00.04 BST

The air campaign against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has killed more than 450 civilians, according to a new report, even though the US-led coalition has so far acknowledged just two non-combatant deaths.

More than 5,700 air strikes have been launched in the campaign, which nears its first anniversary this Saturday, with its impact on civilians largely unknown.

Now Airwars, a project by a team of independent journalists, is publishing details of 52 strikes with what it believes are credible reports of at least 459 non-combatant deaths, including those of more than 100 children.

It says there is a “worrying gulf between public and coalition positions” on the campaign’s toll on civilians.

Read full:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...targets-killed-more-than-450-civilians-report


Yeah Assad is killing civilians u filthy terrorist yankees!!!!

 

[Jacob Martin]

So now is the US guilty of using WMDs? Oh, I forget! These people are just "collateral damage".

And what was ISIS doing with these chemicals?

 

[ShadowCrisp]

More death of muslims....

Now its feels like allah (swt) is punishing us....

Maybe its right time Both Saudi Arabia and Iran should stop barking at each other and do something to prevent Europeans from invading Muslim lands over and over again.

May allah (swt) have mercy on us and all those Non Muslims who are dying thanks to Invasions.

 

[Aramagedon]

America dropped 26,171 bombs in 2016. What a bloody end to Obama's reign
Medea Benjamin
According to new figures, the US dropped nearly three bombs every hour, 24 hours a day. Dare we think how Donald Trump will continue this legacy?

‘One bombing technique that President Obama championed is drone strikes.’ Photograph: Yahya Arhab/EPA
Monday 9 January 2017 07.30 ESTLast modified on Tuesday 31 January 2017 10.36 EST

Most Americans would probably be astounded to realize that the president who has been painted by Washington pundits as a reluctant warrior has actually been a hawk. The Iran nuclear deal, a herculean achievement, and the opening of diplomatic relations with Cuba unfortunately stand alone as President Obama’s successful uses of diplomacy over hostility.

While candidate Obama came to office pledging to end George W Bush’s wars, he leaves office having been at war longer than any president in US history. He is also the only president to serve two complete terms with the nation at war.

President Obama did reduce the number of US soldiers fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq, but he dramatically expanded the air wars and the use of special operations forces around the globe. In 2016, US special operators could be found in 70% of the world’s nations, 138 countries – a staggering jump of 130% since the days of the Bush administration.

Obama has handed a surveillance state and war machine to a maniac | Trevor Timm

Looking back at President Obama’s legacy, the Council on Foreign Relation’s Micah Zenko added up the defense department’s data on airstrikes and made a startling revelation: in 2016 alone, the Obama administration dropped at least 26,171 bombs. This means that every day last year, the US military blasted combatants or civilians overseas with 72 bombs; that’s three bombs every hour, 24 hours a day.



While most of these air attacks were in Syria and Iraq, US bombs also rained down on people in Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan. That’s seven majority-Muslim countries.

One bombing technique that President Obama championed is drone strikes. As drone-warrior-in-chief, he spread the use of drones outside the declared battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq, mainly to Pakistan and Yemen. Obama authorized over 10 times more drone strikes than George W Bush, and automatically painted all males of military age in these regions as combatants, making them fair game for remote controlled killing.

President Obama has claimed that his overseas military adventures are legal under the 2001 and 2003 authorizations for the use of military force passed by Congress to go after al-Qaida. But today’s wars have little or nothing to do with those who attacked the United States on September 11, 2001.

Think Trump's scary now? Obama is leaving him with broad war powers | Trevor Timm

The twisted legal architecture the Obama administration has constructed to justify its interventions, especially extrajudicial drone killings with no geographic restrictions, will now be transferred into the erratic hands of Donald Trump.

What does the administration have to show for eight years of fighting on so many fronts? Terrorism has spread, no wars have been “won” and the Middle East is consumed by more chaos and divisions than when candidate Barack Obama declared his opposition to the invasion of Iraq.

While the switch from US troops on the ground to airstrikes and special forces has saved US lives, untold numbers of foreign lives have been snuffed out. We have no idea how many civilians have been killed in the massive bombings in Iraq and Syria, where the US military is often pursuing Isis in the middle of urban neighborhoods. We only sporadically hear about civilian killings in Afghanistan, such as the tragic bombing of the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz that left 42 dead and 37 wounded.

Pushed to release information about civilian deaths in drone strikes, in July 2016 the US government made the absurd claim it had killed, at most, 116 civilians in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and Libya between 2009 and 2015. Journalists and human rights advocates said the numbers were ridiculously low and unverifiable, given that no names, dates, locations or others details were released. The London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism, which has tracked drone strikes for years, said the true figure was six times higher.

Given that drones account for only a small portion of the munitions dropped in the past eight years, the numbers of civilians killed by Obama’s bombs could be in the thousands. But we can’t know for sure as the administration, and the mainstream media, has been virtually silent about the civilian toll of the administration’s failed interventions.

Victim of Obama's first drone strike: 'I am the living example of what drones are'

In May 2013, I interrupted President Obama during his foreign policy address at the National Defense University. I had just returned from visiting the families of innocent people killed by US drone attacks in Yemen and Pakistan, including the Rehman children who saw their grandmother blown to bits while in the field picking okra.

Speaking out on behalf of grieving families whose losses have never been acknowledged by the US government, I asked President Obama to apologize to them. As I was being dragged out, President Obama said: “The voice of that woman is worth paying attention to.”

Too bad he never did.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/09/america-dropped-26171-bombs-2016-obama-legacy

 

[BHarwana]

So where are the people who were talking about UN resolution against Assad just yesterday. USA has used the same chemical weapons.

People never forget the WMDs of Iraq were they ever there?

 

[Aramagedon]

So where are the people who were talking about UN resolution against Assad just yesterday. USA has used the same chemical weapons.

People never forget the WMDs of Iraq were they ever there?

US kills millions peoples(since 1990's) but since it is the US then it is okay ! US pet israel can kill hundreds of Palestinians but since it is America pet then it is just okay ! Saudi regime with bombs and jets of Americans kill '15,000' Yemenis but since it is American ally (minion) then it is just okay !

 

[500]

That's 100% fake.

It only proves again that Assad used chemical weapons. Thats why he invents this crap to cover up his crimes.

 

[mohsen]

So now is the US guilty of using WMDs? Oh, I forget! These people are just "collateral damage".

And what was ISIS doing with these chemicals?

A better question is why did U.S/Turkey give these chemical weapons to terrorists (ISIS,Al-Qaeda or whatever name they have).

 

[Jacob Martin]

A better question is why did U.S/Turkey give these chemical weapons to terrorists (ISIS,Al-Qaeda or whatever name they have).

Whatever double/triple game that US/Turkey are playing has already destabilized the region yet they never learn. Atleast with Iran/Russia one knows what their goals are, even if they are not agreeable. With NATO and Turkey it is difficult to figure out what exactly they want, apart from causing further misery to the Syrian people.

 

[SOHEIL]

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