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Last Wednesday, President Biden stayed up past his bedtime to watch American troops launch a dead of night operation at a home in Syria’s Idlib province that resulted in the death of a U.S. terror target and 12 others, including six children.
John Kirby, the Pentagon press secretary, said there were no U.S. casualties and called the raid “successful.” Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, the target, took over ISIS after Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed by U.S. forces. NPR reported that al-Qurayshi had been tasked with leading the group’s “remnants as they regrouped following the downfall of their caliphate and shifted underground to wage an insurgency in Iraq and Syria.”
“He was responsible for the recent brutal attack on a prison in northeast Syria … He was the driving force behind the genocide of the Yazidi people,” Biden said. “We all remember the gut-wrenching stories, mass slaughters that wiped out entire villages, thousands of women and young girls sold into slavery, rape used as a weapon of war.”
Biden said al-Qurayshi, who was killed about nine miles from al-Baghdadi, blew himself up on the third floor of the home and killed his own family members. The raid lasted for two hours and had been in the works for months. Kirby said there are “strong, strong indications” that the civilians who died in the raid were not caused by the U.S. forces, but the Pentagon said it is willing to review the operation.
The so-called leaks from the Pentagon appeared to be working overtime after news reports, citing human rights groups, started to emerge that civilians had been killed. (See: “SYRIA: U.S. BACKTRACKS ON PULLOUT.”)
Jamil el-Deddo, a resident at a refugee camp nearby, told the Associated Press that the first moments of the raid were “terrifying.”
“We were worried it could be Syrian aircraft, which brought back memories of barrel bombs that used to be dropped on us,” el-Deddo said.
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The Pentagon hopes to avoid any comparisons to the August U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan that resulted in the deaths of 10 civilians, including seven children. The New York Times reported that the U.S. said earlier that the strike was necessary to prevent an Islamic State attack on troops that were still in the country.
Despite these murderous crimes, Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III decided not to punish anyone involved in the strike.
“What we saw here was a breakdown in process, and execution in procedural events, not the result of negligence, not the result of misconduct, not the result of poor leadership,” Kirby said. “So I do not anticipate there being issues of personal accountability to be had with respect to the Aug. 29 airstrike.”
Steven Kwon, the founder and president of Nutrition & Education International, told The Times that the decision not to fault anyone was “shocking.”
“How can our military wrongly take the lives of 10 precious Afghan people and hold no one accountable in any way?” he said.
PUBLISHER’S NOTE: The U.S. invaded and occupied a sovereign nation that has done nothing to threaten America. The War on Terror has now been waged for two decades, and there have been no attacks on U.S. soil despite the United States spending trillions and killing millions since it launched the Afghan War in 2001.
Instead, they justify the war launched by President Obama in 2011, which has killed some 600,000 Syrians and displaced over 10 million, because “Assad has to go” and now justify it under the guise of not only “protecting our Kurdish allies” but to “defeat ISIS.”
And the media sells it, the public buys it… and other than the Universal Church of Freedom, Peace and Justice, there is no call to stop these killings from any religious orders that we have heard from.