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Coalition air strikes against Isis aid Bashar al-Assad, Syrian rebels
claim
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/09/syria-isis-bashar-al-assad-coalition-air-strikes
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“Syrian warplanes used to shell us two or three times a week but now
they target us every day thanks to the coalition forces,” Faris Samir,
from Harm in the northern Idlib region, complained on Thursday.
“We are losing martyrs and many get injured but no one pays any
attention. Now the Syrian army is taking areas bombed by the coalition
forces after the Islamic factions withdraw. I have to say that the
coalition military campaign is in the interest of the Syrian regime and
against the Syrian people.”
No coalition strikes have been made to help or relieve rebel forces
where they were facing either Isis or government troops.
Coalition hits on grain silos and a gas plant in Manbij and Deir al-Zor
drew warnings of a humanitarian disaster – and the risk of playing into
Isis’s hands, as shortages during the winter will be blamed on the
international community.
Civilian deaths caused by coalition attacks clearly risk a backlash. “We
had 10 martyrs when they targeted Al-Riqa,” said Zeid Al-Jabli, a
student from Zawiya in the Idlib area. “There had been a base for Jabhat
al-Nusra but they pulled out a long time ago and the civilians were
killed instead. Shelling by the regime has intensified because of the
coalition. We have martyrs and wounded every day.”
Mustafa Ahmed, also from the Idlib region, agreed :”I believe that the
coalition’s intervention is in support of the regime. Now we have new
displaced people created by the coalition.”
Full:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/09/syria-isis-bashar-al-assad-coalition-air-strikes
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