De
grootste terreurentiteit op onze kleine aarde, de VS, heeft niet
alleen West-Mosul in Irak zo goed als platgebombardeerd, wat bij Angelina Jolie de uitspraak ontlokte dat ze nimmer een dergelijke
vernietiging zag*, maar ook het Syrische Raqqa werd voor een heel groot deel door VS bombardementen vernietigd…….
In
beide gevallen smeekte de VN en een paar landen die wel menselijke
regeringen hebben, de VS te stoppen met die bombardementen, daar
vooral de burgers van die steden werden getroffen…. De VS deed
niets op die smeekbedes en ging gewoon door met willens en wetens vermoorden van vooral burgers……
In West-Mosul is
een enorm aantal burgers vermoord met die bombardementen van vooral
de VS…. Hun aantal was zo groot dat de terreurregering van Irak
besloot de slachtoffers niet te bergen, maar hen te bulldozeren
onder het puin van de huizenblokken, dit om het ‘officiële’ aantal dodelijke burgerslachtoffers
zo laag mogelijk te houden…….
Volgens deskundigen zijn in West-Mosul meer dan 20.000 burgers vermoord, echter dit natrekken is zoals je begrijpt onmogelijk, het werkelijke aantal vermoorde burgers zullen we dan ook nooit weten……
Vreemd
genoeg mochten destijds tijdens die bombardementen IS strijders de
stad verlaten, waarna ze onder begeleiding van de Irak coalitie naar
de grens met Syrië werden gebracht…… (om in dat land tegen Assad te vechten) Ofwel men bombardeerde een stad met het doel terroristen uit te schakelen, laat vervolgens een groot deel van hen
vertrekken en bombardeert vervolgens vrolijk door tot de stad geheel
in handen was van die moorddadige Irak coalitie (onder regie van vooral de VS)………
Hetzelfde
heeft zich afgespeeld in Raqqa, waar men eerder sprak over honderden
IS strijders en hun familie die mochten vertrekken, blijkt het na onderzoek om
duizenden te gaan…… Ook daar ging de VS door met bombardementen
op de stad, terwijl het overgrote deel van de strijders al was
vertrokken, ofwel de VS bombardeerde vooral de bewoners die niets te
maken hadden met IS of andere terreurgroepen……
Gelukkig
haalt de schrijver van het hieronder opgenomen artikel, Darius
Shahtahmasebi, Aleppo aan en dan m.n. de bevrijding van Oost-Aleppo. Het
Syrische leger en de Russen hebben destijds besloten, 2 maanden voor
de uiteindelijke bevrijding, te stoppen met bombardementen, juist om
zoveel mogelijk burgerslachtoffers te voorkomen…..
De reguliere
westerse media en het grootste deel van de westerse politici
schreeuwden destijds echter moord en brand over de bevrijding va, die men in het westen liefkozend ‘gematigde rebellen’ noemt…… De hysterische reacties van die media en politici waren vooral gebaseerd op berichtgeving die door
de terreurgroepen naar buiten werd gebracht, ofwel een dik pak
leugens, veelal ‘geserveerd’ door het SOHR (Syrische Observatorium voor
Mensenrechten), geleid door een gevluchte Syrische misdadiger die
met de leugen dat hij een politiek vluchteling was, asiel verkreeg in
Groot-Brittannië….
Zoals
bij alle steden die het reguliere Syrische leger bevrijdde van
islam-terreur, was de bevolking van Oost-Aleppo dolblij met hun
bevrijders, na deze bevrijding keerde een groot deel van de gevluchte burgers
terug naar hun stad…… Het voorgaande volkomen in tegenstelling tot West-Mosul en Raqqa, daar er niets is om naar terug te keren……..
The
US Annihilated Raqqa While Allowing Thousands of Terrorists to Escape
— Why?
June
20, 2018 at 9:28 pm
Written by Darius
Shahtahmasebi
(ET) — Amnesty
International released an explosive report last
week, which described the US-led coalition’s disproportionate and
indiscriminate war in Raqqa as the US-led “war of annihilation”.
The
report confirmed what some people have suspected for a while but few
have dared to even talk about. Namely, that the United States and its
allies have completely
destroyed a
Syrian city, and left almost nothing but death and destruction in
their wake.
In
coming to its conclusion, Amnesty researchers visited 42 coalition
air strike sites across the city and interviewed 112 civilian
residents who had survived the ordeal. The results of their
investigation shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone who has been paying
attention, as approximately a year ago, Reuters described the
plight of one resident in Raqqa who found several of his neighbours
lying dead on the street, with cats eating the corpses.
The
report even details four cases of civilian families who, between
them, lost 90 relatives and neighbours. One family lost 39 in total,
all of them allegedly killed by coalition air strikes. This would
also not be a surprise to anyone who cared enough to follow this
story closely, particularly with the Intercept’s
shocking article last year titled,
‘Entire families are being killed by US airstrikes in Raqqa,
Syria’.
To
be fair, US President Donald Trump did once
say he
would “take out” the families of Islamic
State (IS)
fighters. He also once
asked the
CIA why they delayed an air strike on a terrorist target so as to
avoid hitting the house with his family inside it. In other words,
the Commander-in-Chief of the world’s military superpower doesn’t
have a clue how international humanitarian law works.
“When
so many civilians are killed in attack after attack, something is
clearly wrong, and to make this tragedy worse, so many months later
the incidents have not been investigated. The victims deserve
justice. The Coalition’s claims that its precision air campaign
allowed it to bomb IS out of Raqqa while causing very few civilian
casualties do not stand up to scrutiny. On the ground in Raqqa, we
witnessed a level of destruction comparable to anything we’ve seen
in decades of covering the impact of wars,” said Donatella
Rovera, Senior Crisis Response Adviser at Amnesty International.
Most credible
estimates of
the assessment of the damage done to Raqqa are that a whopping 80% of
Raqqa was uninhabitable after the US had supposedly “liberated”
its population. This isn’t something the American media even took
on with a conscience, or even felt the need to apologise for; this
was something they actively bragged about.
“Looking
at photographs of the ruined, desolate streets of what was once the
Islamic State’s capital of Raqqa is a reminder of the overwhelming,
pitilessly effective military power of the United
States,” bragged the Washington
Post’s David Ignatius in an op-ed last year. “The heaps
of rubble in Raqqa that once housed terrorists and torturers convey a
bedrock lesson, as valid now as in 1945: It’s a mistake to
provoke the United States. It may take the country a while to
respond to a threat, but once the machine of US power is engaged,
it’s relentless – so long as the political will exists to sustain
it,”Ignatius
continued.
For
all of Bashar al Assad’s flaws, and despite all of the mounting
allegations of war crimes against him, after Russia and Syria retook
the city of Aleppo in 2016, hundreds of thousands of
refugees returned back
to live in the city. An Aleppo cathedral even reopened last
year with a classical concert (the US-backed rebels occupying Aleppo
previously were not big on religious diversity). I don’t know about
you, but I haven’t heard of any concerts taking place in Raqqa thus
far.
But
here is where things get even more disturbing. On November 13, 2017,
the BBC dropped
a bombshell report exposing
how the US cut a secret deal with “hundreds” of IS fighters and
their families to leave the Syrian city of Raqqa under the “gaze of
the US and British-led coalition and Kurdish-led forces who control
the city”. The
US even
allegedly allowed the escape of some of IS’ “most notorious”
members, as well as its foreign fighters and tonnes of weapons and
ammunition.
Almost
a month later, Reuters took
the story even further and reported that
a high-level defector from the Kurdish-led forces in Syria had
revealed that the number of IS fighters given safe passage was
actually in the thousands, not hundreds. This account was then
seconded by a security official in Turkey.
So,
on the one hand, you have the US exacting all of its military might
and power to completely raze Raqqa to the ground, while on the other,
they were doing all of this while allowing their alleged targets to
escape safely. This ultimately begs the question: who were they
trying to kill that entire time? What crime did the residents of
Raqqa commit that they had to suffer and endure this criminal
behaviour?
It
also cannot be overlooked that the US did all of this without
any discernible
legal basis.
For those of you who need this spelt out: the US does not have any
legal mandate to conduct military operations in Syria. This is not
some secret or mere mistake or accident, the US government’s own
lawyers have been advising them of this, even under the Obama
administration.
But
don’t take my word for it. Speaking to Syrian opposition members at
a meeting that took place at the Dutch mission to the United Nations
(UN), then Secretary of State John Kerry stated,
“The
problem is that the Russians don’t care about international law,
but we do. And we don’t have the basis – our lawyers tell us –
unless we have the UN Security Council Resolution, which the Russians
can veto, and the
Chinese,
or unless we are under attack from the folks there, or unless we are
invited in. Russia is
invited in by the legitimate regime – well it’s illegitimate in
our mind – but by the regime. And so they were invited in and we
are not invited in.
We’re
flying in an airspace there where they can turn on the air defences
and we would have a very different scene. The only reason they are
letting us fly is because we are going after IS. If we were going
after Assad, those air defences, we would have to take out all the
air defences, and we don’t have the legal justification, frankly,
unless we stretch it way beyond the law.”
Despite
having this knowledge, it didn’t stop the US from doing what it
does best – accounting for at least 90% of the strikes on Raqqa.
Ignatius is wrong: it is not a mistake to provoke the United States.
Raqqa never provoked anyone. Just like Vietnam, Libya,
Korea, Iraq and
everywhere else before it, it joins a long list of territories forced
to pay the highest price for reasons that cannot and will not ever be
justified, let alone investigated by the United States.
By Darius
Shahtahmasebi / Republished
with permission / Express
Tribune / Report
a typo
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* Zie:
Tot slot dient nogmaals opgemerkt te worden dat de VS illegaal aanwezig is op Syrische bodem, daarnaast zonder enige VN resolutie Syrisch grondgebied bombardeert en zich schuldig maakt aan enorme oorlogsmisdaden, zoals je hierboven kon lezen…….
Zie ook: ‘Voorbeeld BBC en AD propaganda inzake Idlib (Syrië)‘
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