The Pentagon Is Spending Up To $2.2B on Soviet-Style Arms for Syrian Rebels

Re:The Pentagon Is Spending Up To $2.2B on Soviet-Style Arms... by liopleurodon on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @11:40AM (#15239331)

"Russia has been targeting civilian population centers (with both conventional and chemical weapons)"

citation needed

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Re:The Pentagon Is Spending Up To $2.2B on Soviet-Style Arms... by tudorw on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @11:59AM (#15239552)

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/10/27/499578650/...

"This year, UNICEF "said it has verified at least 38 attacks on schools around Syria, whether in government-held areas or rebel-controlled territory. Before Wednesday's attack, 32 children were killed in 2016 in attacks on schools," as the group's regional chief of communication, Juliette Touma, told The Associated Press.

"A total of 60 attacks were recorded on schools in 2015," she told the AP, adding that 1 in 3 schools in the country have been rendered unusable by the conflict."

"At least 96 children have been killed and 223 injured in eastern Aleppo in the past week, UNICEF said Thursday, with some left to die on the floor of hospitals due to lack of medical supplies. Syrian and Russian forces have been bombarding rebel-held areas of the city for five straight days in what has been described as the most intense bombing campaign to hit the city since the war in Syria started six years ago."

https://news.vice.com/article/un-slams-russia-syria-for-kill...

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Re:The Pentagon Is Spending Up To $2.2B on Soviet-Style Arms... by timeu on Thursday September 14, 2017 @05:00AM (#15246117)

The reporting about Aleppo was a bit ridiculous (Aleppo must have more hospitals than any other city) compared to how our Media reports about Mossul and Raqqa. Go look up the numbers of how many civilians were killed by the anti-IS Coalition forces (btw it dramatically increased since Trump is in power). Only because the media is not reporting it in the same extent as in case of Aleppo doesn't mean it doesn't happen. War sucks. Plain and simple.

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Re:The Pentagon Is Spending Up To $2.2B on Soviet-Style Arms... by travmatt on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @01:27PM (#15240505)

Also of note is the attacks on hospitals, al-Assad's very deliberate strategy of gassing civilian populations, Russia's use of non discriminatory weaponry such as barrel bombs, and especially their advocacy of political instability in Europe, including planting false stories of rape and genocide by muslims, and their cooperation with Erdogan in promoting said instability.

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