- (Oh-and bombers) Life Among the Rubble: Mosul 18 Months after “Liberation” Archived Message
- Britian - first pirates, now looters - walter July 4, 2019, 4:01 pm
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Life Among the Rubble: Mosul 18 Months after “Liberation” "....In 2016, the US-led coalition dropped 30,743 bombs on Iraq and Syria. In 2017, it dropped 39,577. In 2018, the coalition dropped over 6,800 bombs. In February 2018, Pehr Lodhammar of the UN Mine Action Service reported that the “liberation” of Mosul had left 11 million tonnes of debris, burying two-thirds of the unexploded bombs (UXB). The anti-mine, anti-UXB operations will take the UN a decade to complete; assuming that their budget isn’t reduced. It took the agency 12 months to remove 25,000 explosive remnants in Mosul alone. The BBC reported that UK Ministry of Defence bombs “malfunctioned and strayed off target” sometimes by “hundreds of metres,” adding to the civilian death toll which reached up to 10,000; 11,000, according to the same Forces.Net source noted above. Mosul resident and civilian, Abdel Rahman Ali, lost five children to the blitz. “Nobody destroyed us except the coalition,” he told the BBC." https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/07/04/life-among-the-rubble-mosul-18-months-after-liberation/ The linked BBC report: RAF strikes on IS in Iraq 'may have killed civilians', https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43965032 Apparently this 'may have' means 'impossible not to have', in BBC-speak |
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