US-led airstrike "unintentionally" hit Syrian forces instead of ISIS, 62 Syrian troops killed

[enhanced_deficit]

US-led airstrike "unintentionally" hit Syrian forces instead of ISIS, 62 Syrian troops killed

For how many more years neocons and their puppets supported freedom spreading/bloodbath in Syria will go on?
Will many US jobs really be lost as CNN's Wolf Blitzers implied if US stopped supporting violent Jihadi groups and dictators in mideast?

US-led airstrike may have unintentionally hit Syrian forces
Fox News

The Latest: Russia Calls for UN Meet Over US Strike in Syria
New York Times


Trending:US-led coalition aircraft strike Syrian army positions, kill 62 soldiers – military


Opinion:Syrian army says US-led coalition jets bombed it in support of Islamic State




In related questions, did Nobel peace prize play any role in worldwide wars/civil wars instigation by neocons funded current leader or it was mostly for entertainment value?

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Poll: Will Neocons-Al Qaeda alliance end well?

 

[Influenza]

Yes, just as this was an accident:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...he-islamic-state-by-airdrop-militants-allege/

The Islamic State has released a new video in which it brags that it recovered weapons and supplies that the U.S. military intended to deliver to Kurdish fighters, who are locked in a fight with the militants over control of the Syrian border town of Kobane.
The SITE Intelligence Group, which tracks jihadist social media accounts, drew attention to the videoTuesday. At one point, it appears to show a masked militant raking his hands through a crate filled with hand grenades.

 

[libertyjam]

http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archive...rikes-syrian-forces-allowing-isis-to-advance/

written by daniel mcadams
saturday september 17, 2016

Breaking: US Military Strikes Syrian Forces, Allowing ISIS to Advance


The Associated Press is reporting that the US military has struck Syrian government positions in the eastern province of Deir el-Zour today, as the Syrian military was involved in a battle with ISIS forces. According to the report, the US attack on Syrian troops "enabled an [ISIS] advance on the hill overlooking the air base." There has not yet been a US confirmation of the attack, but it it is confirmed it will be the second time US forces have directly targeted Syrian government troops inside Syria. It would be the first time such an attack produced a battlefield advantage to ISIS.

According to a Tweet by AP, the Russian government says the US attack has killed 62 Syrian government troops.

Earlier today it was reported that the Syrian government had sent some 1,000 members of the elite Republican Guard into the Deir el-Zour province, as battles with ISIS in the area increase. There is no word yet on whether the Syrian troops hit by the United States were members of this Republican Guard.

This dramatic development comes as the latest ceasefire begins to crumble. Russia has condemned Washington's refusal to implement a key component of the agreement, to press US-backed rebels to cease fighting alongside al-Qaeda; and the main US-backed "moderate" Islamist group, Ahrar al-Sham, has refused to take part in the ceasefire at all.

Is today's attack a turning point in the war, where the US will begin to strike Syrian government forces more frequently? If so, how will Russia and Iran react to this overt shift in US strategy?
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[jkr]

Oops I did it again
and again


and again

 

[twomp]

US Bombs Syrian Army Base in Deir Ezzor, Killing 83 Troops

In what could prove to be the single biggest blunder of the entire US war in Syria, US warplanes today attacked a Syrian army base in the Jebel Tharda area on Deir Ezzor Province, in the ISIS-dominated eastern portion of the country, killing at least 83 Syrian soldiers and wounding 120 others.

Pentagon officials claimed they thought the site was “an ISIS tank position,” and admitted to not giving Russia a precise location before the attacks. Russian officials slammed the US over that, saying it underscored the Pentagon’s “stubborn refusal” to coordinate actions properly.

US warplanes killing 83 Syrian troops during a ceasefire may not be the worst of the story, incredibly enough. Those troops had been defending the area from ISIS, who quickly overran what was left of the base’s defenses, and are now even closer to the Deir Ezzor airport.

The airport has been one of the last major government holdouts in the Deir Ezzor capital, and at times the Syrian warplanes flying out of the airport were the only thing keeping ISIS from overrunning the entire eastern half of the country. The US airstrikes seriously softened up the defenses in the area, and might finally do what years of ISIS offensives couldn’t, put ISIS in control of the airport.

US officials expressed “regret” over the killing of the Syrian troops, but condemned Russia for requesting an emergency UN Security Council meeting, saying that the Russians “had blood on their hands” from the war themselves and wasn’t in a position to criticize the US botches.

According to Centcom, the Syrian troops were all “out in the open” at the base, and they also destroyed six military APCs and one tank. They reported they were “watching” the Syrian Army base for days before the attacks, figuring everyone there was ISIS.

http://news.antiwar.com/2016/09/17/us-bombs-syrian-army-base-in-deir-ezzor-killing-83-troops/

 

[twomp]

This is the Syrians fault. Why did they have to live in the country that we want to bomb?

 

[wizardwatson]

Oops, sorry. Meant to illegally bomb a different thing in your country.

 

[TER]

The fact is that in every major conflict which the US has engaged in for the past twenty years, starting with Kosovo, they have supplied arms and monetary support to the side which attacks and murders innocent Christians whose families have lived peacefully there for centuries. Think about that.

 

[TER]

In the last century, the most persecuted people in the world by volume have been Christians. Many lived as second class citizens and under constant threat of violence, in countries such as ones with Islamic majorities and in communist USSR. No group of like minded believers have martyred with their blood their religious faith than those who confess Christ is risen.

This century, I fear, will be no different. Especially if Americans continue to turn a blind eye to the policies of the status quo, which is what Hillary Clinton represents. She must not become President. Don't think she won't institute policies which lead to persecution of Christians. She has already been doing those for years!

 

[TER]

They were watching the base for days but didn't know it was Syrian forces? They didn't know from which direction the vehicles were coming and going from?

This is either extreme ineptitude, or a nefarious plot to aid ISIS and maybe hope for a Russian overreaction so close to Election Day.

I bet the latter.

 

[AngryCanadian]

They were watching the base for days but didn't know it was Syrian forces? They didn't know from which direction the vehicles were coming and going from?

This is either extreme ineptitude, or a nefarious plot to aid ISIS and maybe hope for a Russian overreaction so close to Election Day.

I bet the latter.

This is either extreme ineptitude, or a nefarious plot to aid ISIS and maybe hope for a Russian overreaction so close to Election Day.

The Russian response would mean more assistance from Ru to SAA forces.

 

[Danke]

The fact is that in every major conflict which the US has engaged in for the past twenty years, starting with Kosovo, they have supplied arms and monetary support to the side which attacks and murders innocent Christians whose families have lived peacefully there for centuries. Think about that.

Now you're sounding like Alex Jones. He always talks about a conspiracy to eliminate Christianity.

 

[oyarde]

Now you're sounding like Alex Jones. He always talks about a conspiracy to eliminate Christianity.

It is the goal of all evil socialist/communist/fascist/totalitarians . You may worship only the state.

 

[goldenequity]

Today, 08:52 PM
US Bombs Syrian Army Base in Deir Ezzor, Killing 83 Troops in World News & Affairs

I was gone all day & appreciate your updates TER/EnhcDef.
This is an absolute catastrophe in the making.
Deir Ezzor is/was the 5th largest city in Syria along the banks of the Euphrates.
There are at LEAST tens of thousands of civilians who have been trapped/surrounded by ISIS since 2015... all supplies/food is air dropped.
They're protected only by the SAA in the middle of nowhere.

The BIGGEST question is: WHY, after YEARS of DOING NOTHING to help the Syrian Army
SUDDENLY
The Pentagon decides to 'help'??

Nobody believes it. Nobody.
It's a lie & complete treachery.
It is the NWQ DARING Russia to 'react'. Just like Ukraine.

Russia: Why did US want to help Syrian Army against ISIS after years of nothing

Vitaly Ivanovich Churkin, Russia's Permanent Representative to the United Nations,
has questioned why the United States suddenly wants to "help" the Syrian Army
with airstrikes against ISIS after years of doing nothing.

He then went onto suggest that it was actually in regards to the ceasefire situation in Syria.

"US Airstrike was intended to disrupt the cease fire process and to drive the situation out of control," Churkin said.

He then went onto suggest that the ceasefire deal is in jeopardy.

"This could be the end of the deal between the United States and Russia," he warned.

He then went onto state "who is in charge in Washington? Is it the White House or the Pentagon?"

"Russia believes the United States attack on the Syrian Army was not a mistake," he continued.

In responding to Russia's emergency United Nations Security Council meeting,
the United States United Nations envoy claimed that the meeting is "a stunt",
undermining the severity of U.S. airstrikes that killed over 80 Syrian Army soldiers.

Continuing with his scathing attack on the United States,
Churkin questioned why they did nothing when ISIS took Palmyra.

We live behind the neocon curtain.
Treachery is utterly afoot.
Got iodine?

 

[Origanalist]

Oops I did it again
and again


and again

Ooops. Right. God Bless America.

 

[Influenza]

The fact is that in every major conflict which the US has engaged in for the past twenty years, starting with Kosovo, they have supplied arms and monetary support to the side which attacks and murders innocent Christians whose families have lived peacefully there for centuries. Think about that.

Yes, although millions of non-Christians have been killed as a result of U.S foreign policy in the last decades, the few thousand Christians that have also died make evident the concerted effort to kill Christians of the U.S government.

 

[goldenequity]

Russian airstrikes propel the Syrian Army to recapture lost points in Deir Ezzor

DEIR EZZOR, SYRIA (3:00 A.M.) -
The Syrian Arab Army's 137th Artillery Brigade of the 17th Reserve Division, backed by the Qassem Units (Special Forces),
launched a counter-attack tonight to recapture the points they lost to the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS) in western Deir Ezzor
after the U.S. bombed the government's positions at Jabal Thardeh.

According to a military source from the Qassem Units,
the Syrian Armed Forces managed to recapture almost every point lost to the Islamic State militants at Jabal Thardeh tonight.

 

[goldenequity]

VIDEO: Churkin's full statement at the UNSC
Timing & other aspects of US strike on Syrian army suggest intentional provocation – Churkin

“The beginning of work of the Joint Implementation Group
was supposed to be September 19.
So
if the US wanted to conduct an effective strike on Al-Nusra or ISIS, in Deir ez-Zor or anywhere else,
they could wait two more days and coordinate with our military
and be sure that they are striking the right people.”

“Instead they chose to conduct this reckless operation,” Churkin said.

He also noted that the US has been voicing its concern over the humanitarian situation in Syria,
claiming that because of it,
“there are no conditions to start implementing the arrangements of the Joint Implementation Group.”

But the Syrian government cleared all obstacles for the humanitarian aid it be delivered,
leaving the US with “no serious ground” to halt or postpone the start date of the JIG’s work.

“So it may well be, one has to conclude,
that the airstrike has been conducted in order to distrust the operation [Sabotage]
of the Joint Implementation Group
and actually not to allow it to be set in motion,” Churkin said.

“It may well be that the United States is trying to hide the fact
that they are actually not in control of the situation,
that they allowed the situation to get out of control.”

Vitaly Churkin spoke to journalists after briefly leaving the closed-door UN Security Council meeting,
which was convened by Moscow to give Washington a chance
to offer an explanation for the actions of its military.

However, instead of discussing the issue,
US ambassador Samantha Power immediately left the room
to address the press and accuse Russia of hypocrisy.
(What a complete witch.)
The US envoy to the UN spent some 30 seconds expressing “regret”
over the unfortunate coalition airstrike that resulted in the loss of the lives of Syrian soldiers,
and insisting that even if the ongoing investigation
proves the US military is indeed to blame,
it had never been their “intention” to strike Syrian military.

After that,
Power spent the next 15 minutes slamming Moscow’s
“uniquely hypocritical and cynical” attempt to make Washington
explain itself at an urgent UNSC meeting.

“Why are we having this meeting tonight?
It is a diversion from what is happening on the ground.
If you don't like what is happening on the ground then you distract.
It is a magician's trick… we encourage the Russian Federation
to have emergency meetings with the Assad regime
and deliver them to this deal,” said Samantha Power.

"What Russia is alleging tonight is that somehow
the United States is undermining the fighting against ISIL. (gee ya think? It's BEEN going on for 3 YEARS!!!)

The Russian spokesperson even said
that the United States might be complicit in this attack …
this is not a game," she added,
before going into details of how Assad government is to blame
for the dire situation in Syria.

►The poison being spewed by the global war machine is feverish.... frenzied.
Never seen anything like it. It is 'foaming at the mouth'.

"In All My 40 years of experience/International life... I've never seen such heavy-handedness."





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Here was this morning's New York Times headline:
NYT: His Grip Still Secure, Bashar al-Assad Smiles as Syria Burns
(Sounds like something Goebbels would have authorized or Hillary would have shrieked.. what are we in grade school??)

 

[Origanalist]

Yes, although millions of non-Christians have been killed as a result of U.S foreign policy in the last decades, the few thousand Christians that have also died make evident the concerted effort to kill Christians of the U.S government.

To be fair, Christian communities that co-existed for centuries as a minority are completely wiped out now.

 

[TER]

Yes, although millions of non-Christians have been killed as a result of U.S foreign policy in the last decades, the few thousand Christians that have also died make evident the concerted effort to kill Christians of the U.S government.

No one is denying that millions of non-Christians have been killed as a result of US foreign policy. No one is downplaying that horror.

I am making the observation that in every major military conflict the US government has been in, they so happen to side every time on the side which is anti-Christian. The regimes which have been relatively friendly to Christians (ex: Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Libya, etc) they have destabilized or attacked. The regimes which persecute and murder innocent Christians (ex: Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, ISIS, Al Qeida, Bosnians) they support and arm.