The truth is : These disgusting Jihadist scum commonly use civilian populations as human shields in the vain hope that their miserable lives will be spared from justice by hiding behind the burkha of women . The other truth is that most of the time to muslim civilian populations more-or-less willingly give themselves over to this role , do not resist and/ or stay in place , to be used as humans shields . Even though they know . or should know by now , that the day will come when the bombs will fall . They have no one to blame for themselves and the greatest blame is that they are adherents to the world's largest insane death cult . I do not pity them in the least . They love theirs swords , just the things to part the kefirs from their bodies with : Live by the sword , die by the sword . Or in this case bombs .
Far better to obliterate these people from the air , like going after cockroaches with a can of Raid . They are truly not worth suffering ground combat casualties over .
they would have raped and beheaded the innocent anyway.
No such thing as a mooselimb civilian. They are all combatants.
No mention of whether the “civilians” were good guys or bad guys.
US forces did what was necessary.
I’m glad there were no western news cameras there.
I don’t believe the news needs verification.
Yes, they use civilians, non-combatants as human shields, and when considering such utter disregard for human life, such deprivation of heart and mind, such a societal seared conscience . . . we have read plenty now to see this all through Mohammedan history . . . this must not be allowed to propagate any further in the United States.
Nits make lice. Didn’t kill enough.
There are no innocent muslims.
These numbers are useless.
We are fighting a uniformless enemy.
Every fighter becomes a “civilian” when dead.
Perhaps we should carve a moon on each of their foreheads.
The only innocents in Raqaa were the sex slaves kept against their will by their murderous fanatic masters. Civilians my @$$.
That is actually a pretty excellent record of minimizing civilian collateral deaths in an operation that size - and that is even given the fact that ISIS systematically used civilians as human shields.
No context is given on how the coalition took lots of time, effort, and even sacrificed some of their own lives to preserve the civilians, while ISIS deliberately endangered and even deliberately targeted them, in violation of the laws of war.
Who knows how many of these “civilians” were actually participating with ISIS? They used women and children as killers, as well as bomb makers, scouts and enforcers.
1,600 is still a low number, given the intensity and scale of that battle.
War is hell snowflakes. Lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way.
Yep, just women and children minding their own business. LIKE HELL.
Only 1600? Maybe we could unleash the Lancers again and let them carpet bomb the surrounding neighborhoods with cluster munitions and napalm.
It’s a one gig image, so zoom in to the river, about center, 2/3 down. Zoom in to the two islands in the river and the north side river bank. That’s where the ISIS fighters made their last stand. Several compounds with multiple JDAM craters. Trapped between the bluffs and the river.
Find the bastards, and pile on!
https://www.intelligence-airbusds.com/en/5751-image-gallery-details?img=53077#.XMIKWehKgdV
Welcome to war. Just like the fire bombing of Nazi cities which killed thousands of civilians, being a Muslim doesn’t make you exempt from being a casualty of war.
I have no doubt plenty of civilians were blown to bits in coalition air strikes. Firstly, that is inevitable in war. Secondly, Goat effer State deliberately used civilians as human shields, did not wear uniforms, etc.
It seems to me that if you don’t wish to be subject to the tender mercies of 7th century goat fornicators and then risk getting blown to pieces when the civilized world hits back to stop the infection right there, you should fight like hell to keep them out in the first place.
Do not assume the 1600 figure is anywhere close to accurate, even if you believe it justified if the correct figure actually is 1600.
the women who were transported out of Raqqa to camps have set up their own ‘morality police’ to harass and discipline the other women and children in the camps. They are also preaching jihad amongst themselves even as some plead with home countries to let them return as innocents. “Civilians” seems to be a stretch of reality.
Had the US, and it’s allies not financed regime change in Syria, Raqqa wouldn’t have happened. The legitimate gov’t of Syria, under Bashar Assad, and Syria’s invited allies were perfectly capable of taking out the trash.
Secular, westernized Syria posed no threat to the United States.
Karma is going to bite the US in the butt one of these days.