Civilian casualties in Iraq and Afghan wars:
Civilian casualties in Iraq and Afghan wars:
Civilian
casualties in Iraq and Afghan wars After years of legal proceedings and months of
investigation, the New York Times has concluded that the number of civilian
casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan is far higher than the United States has
acknowledged.
Civilian casualties in Iraq and Afghan wars:
Summarizing its efforts to investigate US wars
in the Middle East, the newspaper wrote: "This reflects deaths and
inadequate accountability.
The
newspaper gained access to Pentagon documents in March 2017 through a lawsuit
filed against the US Department of Defense and Central Command and a request
for freedom of information.
New York
Times correspondents also visited more than 100 victims and interviewed
survivors, as well as former and current U.S. service personnel.
The study,
published in a two-part report this week, found that US air warfare was
"extremely poor" and that hundreds of civilian casualties were
"extremely low."
The document
disproves the Pentagon's claim that drone technology has made it possible for
part of a house to be destroyed by enemy fighters while the rest of the structure
remains intact.
A New York
Times report reveals that in five years, US forces have carried out more than
50,000 airstrikes in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria.
Noting that
the military must go through extensive protocols for estimating and reducing
civilian casualties before launching airstrikes, the report acknowledges that
often available intelligence can be "misleading." This can be
short-lived or can sometimes lead to catastrophic mistakes. "
The
newspaper pointed out that sometimes aerial videos do not show people under
plants in buildings or tarpaulins or aluminum walls.
"Available
data can be misinterpreted, such as when people flee the site of a recent
bombing and are considered militants rather than rescuers," the report
added.
"Sometimes
motorcyclists attack in a certain way when they are just motorcyclists,"
the report said.
The New York
Times cited three specific reports to substantiate its claim.
One of them
was the July 19, 2016 incident when US Special Forces bombed three hideouts of
ISIS terrorists in the northern Syrian region, killing 85 militants and 120
farmers and other villagers, according to initial reports. Were
Another
example was the November 2015 attack in the Ramadi region of Iraq, in which a
man was seen dragging a heavy object into an ISIS stronghold, while a survey
revealed that the object There was, in fact, a child who was killed in an airstrike.
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