Nothing like murdering a sheep herder father of ten to win the people over. You gotta break a few eggs to steal Syrian oil.
Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com,
Pentagon Walks Back Claim It Killed Al-Qaeda Leader In Syria
US military officials are walking back claims that a drone strike Central Command (CENTCOM) launched on May 3 in northwest Syria killed a senior al-Qaeda leader after evidence emerged that a civilian was killed.
When the strike was first launched in Syria’s northwest Idlib province, reports immediately emerged that the strike killed a sheep herder with no ties to any militant groups. The Associated Press spoke with family members and neighbors of the victim, Lotfi Hassan Misto, who insisted he was innocent.
According to The Washington Post, Misto was a 56-year-old father of 10, and the paper spoke with terrorism experts who said it was unlikely he was affiliated with al-Qaeda.
The operation was overseen by U.S. Central Command, which claimed hours after the strike, without citing evidence or naming a suspect, that the Predator drone strike had targeted a “senior Al Qaeda leader.” But now there is doubt inside the Pentagon about who was killed, two U.S. defense officials told The Washington Post.
“We are no longer confident we killed a senior AQ official,” an unnamed military official told the Post. Another official claimed the person they killed was al-Qaeda but offered no evidence.
“Though we believe the strike did not kill the original target, we believe the person to be al-Qaeda,” the official said.
CENTCOM’s initial press release on the strike did not name the person they killed. Since then, the command has refused to share any details of the operation or say why they could have targeted the wrong person.
The US military is notorious for undercounting civilian casualties or lying about them. The Pentagon is also known for investigating itself and finding no wrongdoing, even in instances of significant civilian deaths, such as the August 2021 Kabul drone strike that killed 10 civilians, including seven children.
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Hey, DoD/ feds/ MIC, nice job, as usual. If/when people like you and your families are droned to death by foreign adversaries, in retaliation for decades of your murders, do you really expect any of your countrymen to give a damn?
Mindless cowards. They all go home and “play call of duty” after a hard day of killing people at 32000 feet from their ivory towers at CENTCOM.
Not in my name you don’t. Bastards!
The US has illegally and immorally murdered about 4.5 million people since 9/11.
[Instrumental Intro]
[Verse 1]
You have a natural tendency to squeeze off a shot
You’re good fun at parties, you wear the right masks
You’re old but you still like a laugh in the locker room
You can’t abide change, you’re at home on the range
You opened the suitcase, behind the old workings
To show off the magnum, you deafened the canyon
A comfort a friend, only upstaged in the end
By the Uzi machine gun, does the recoil remind you
Remind you of sex
[Chorus 1]
Old man what the hell you gonna kill next, yeah-yeah
Old timer who you gonna kill next
[Verse 2]
I looked over Jordan and what did I see
Saw a U.S. Marine in a pile of debris
I swam in your pools and lay under your palm trees
I looked in the eyes of the Indian
Who lay on the Federal Building steps
And through the range finder over the hill
I saw the frontline boys popping their pills
Sick of the mess they find on their desert stage
And the bravery of being out of range
Yeah the question is vexed
[Chorus 1]
Old man what the hell you gonna kill next, yeah-yeah
Old timer who you gonna kill next
[Guitar Solo]
[Verse 3]
Hey bartender over here
Two more shots and two more beers
Sir, turn up the TV sound
The war has started on the ground
Just love those laser guided bombs
They’re really great for righting wrongs
You hit the target and win the game
From bars 3,000 miles away
3,000 miles away
[Chorus 2]
We play the game
With the bravery of being out of range
We zap and maim
With the bravery of being out of range
We strafe the train
With the bravery of being out of range
We gained terrain
With the bravery of being out of range
[Outro]
We play the game
With the bravery of being out of range
Al Qaeda?
I thought it was Isis? When they first targeted Assad, it was Isis and definitely Not AlQaeda in Iraq just given a new name by intel & media.
Totally different they said.
No one remembers. New day new claims. Whatever they said yesterday is a conspiracy theory today.
Goldfish attention spans. Fuck it. Who cares.
Auntie stands with Syria and the Syrian people against the invaders and their aggression:
To win the heart, pierce the bag of tissue in which it resides, or pierce the heart itself. To win the mind, pierce the skull and that bag, or pierce the brain itself. If one pierces the brain at the spot represented by that exterior point just between the eyes the winning will be instantaneous.
That is as close as anyone can come to ‘winning’ a heart or mind.
LOL, sure how many times did these same retards claim the killed Ayman al-Zawahiri , I remember 3 different occasions. And they’ll keep lying, in al-Zawahiri’s case they never rolled it back and said oops. Sure, war on terror, whatever. They also made claims of shit like the Syrians using chemical weapons, also proven to be lies… White Helmets, more LOLz. OK, they killed some guy… like that America kid at a coffee shop who’s dad they killed before for being some kind of firebrand Muslim. These chickens are coming home to roost.