Posted on 10/27/2015 12:21:44 PM PDT by marvel5
The Russian Ministry of Defense has summoned military attaches of NATO countries and Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, asking the officials to clarify their countries' allegations that Russian airstrikes in Syria have hit civilian targets.
"Today we invited military attaches from the US, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the NATO bloc to ask them to give official validation to their statements, or make a rebuttal," Defense Ministry deputy head Anatoly Antonov said on Tuesday. It particularly touches upon Western media's "outrageous accusations" that the Russian Air Force has allegedly bombed hospitals in Syria, the military official said.
Information attacks on Moscow's anti-terror efforts in the region have intensified recently, Antonov said, adding that the Russian military is "blamed not only for conducting airstrikes on the 'moderate opposition,' but also on civilian buildings, such as hospitals, mosques and schools."
The MoD official stressed that such blame is put upon Russia not only by the media, but also officials and politicians from a number of Western states, including US Secretary of State John Kerry, US Department of Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, NATO’s Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, the UK's Defense Secretary Michael Fallon and France's Minister of Defense Jean-Yves Le Drian.
Allegations will be considered "stove-piping" should Russia not receive proof in the next following days, Antonov said, adding that the Defense Ministry "closely monitors and analyzes such statements."
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I have to agree with Moscow in this case.
I guess Putin just told the UN to F#CK OFF.
More countries need to do this, Israel for starters.
When you are not fighting a defined military, with uniforms, you don’t know who is or isn’t in the opposition except by their actions. If they shoot at you, then go home for lunch, that house becomes a target. If they shoot at you, then go into a school, that becomes a target. Islam hides amongst the civilians. If the civilians don’t want to be targets they need to get rid of the fighters themselves. But they don’t because they support the fighters; whether they support 10% or 100% doesn’t matter. That association makes them legitimate targets. Russia knows how to win a war. We don’t.
The Russians tend to be somewhat indiscriminate when it comes to laying down a little fire.
Let God (or Allah) sort them out.
Non-combatants have (mostly) already fled the scene, or been murdered by the jihadists. The few remaining probably had not that great an expectancy of either mercy or a reprieve.
Dumbama made a mistake. Your midget hero bombs civilians intentionally.
Neither statement rings 100% true and neither Obama or Putin qualifies as a hero, or even as a decent human being.
The problem with irregular warfare is that last night's guerrilla fighter is this morning's poor civilian.
We learned a lot about irregular warfare the hard way in Vietnam.
But that knowledge and experience seems to have all been forgotten or overlooked by the idiots in Washington , DC.
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