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-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff via Marxism
Subject: [Marxism] US coalition finally strikes Assad forces -- by
mistake of course!
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Syria Solidarity Campaign on this US Friendly Fire incident:
September 18 at 2:24pm ·
https://www.facebook.com/SyriaSolidarityCampaign/posts/343217749354749
On the 19th of July 2016, between 100-200 civilians were estimated to
have been "accidentally" massacred by the US airforce in Manbij, North
Syria [1].
Then there was no apology, no explanation, no compensation. Just
*silence*
Since 2014, up to 200 anti-Assad, anti-ISIS rebels have been estimated
to have been killed in airstrikes by the US airforce [2].
Then there were no apologies, no explanations, no compensations. Just
*silence*
And now, for the first time in 5 years, the US airforce have
accidentally struck the forces of the Assad regime in Deir al-Zor whilst
it was trying to help them (as has been taking place since 2014 [3]).
Yet this time the US issues an apology and offers compensation.
Media reports do not focus on the horrific revelation that the US was
trying to help the forces of a genocidal regime - which is on record
having killed approximately 100 times more people than ISIS - but
instead promotes sympathetic narratives to the regime's "victims".
Indeed, an American airstrike against rebels in Aleppo on the same day
does not make media mention [4]. Syrians on Facebook see 46,000 people
talking about this airstrike "trending", whilst the dozens of daily
airstrikes by the Assad regime, Russia and the US that have displaced
them in the name of "fighting terror" rarely "trend" on Facebook.
The only Syrians the United States cares about are the soldiers of the
genocidal, fascist Assad regime. Unfortunately, much of Western media,
spanning both mainstream and alternative platforms, seems to think so as
well.
#AssadLivesMatter
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/…/us-airstrike-allegedly-kills-…
[2] http://www.aljazeera.com/…/hundreds-killed-russian-air-stri…
For a full list of US targeting of rebels, see:
https://mkaradjis.wordpress.com/…/who-has-the-us-bombed-fo…/
[3] Full list on US support for the Assad regime in Deir al-Zor, see:
https://mkaradjis.wordpress.com/…/who-has-the-us-bombed-fo…/
[4]
https://www.facebook.com/SyriaSolidarityCampaign/posts/343013486041842
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