The New York Times conducted the investigation with a recently obtained set of confidential documents.
Pentagon documents show that the air wars carried out by the United States in the Middle East were marked by a “Profoundly deficient intelligence” and have resulted in thousands of civilian deaths, including many children, reported The New York Times Saturday.
The newspaper stated that a recently obtained set of confidential documents, covering more than 1,300 reports of civilian casualties, belies the government’s description of a war fought with precision bombs.
Promises of transparency and accountability are regularly they fell short, he indicated.
None of the minutes evaluated includes a record of infraction or disciplinary actions.
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In addition, it adds that reported civilian deaths are very “undervalued,” the newspaper said in this first part of two installments.
Among the three cases cited is the bombing of 19 July 2016 by US special forces against what were believed to be three concentration zones of the Islamic State group in northern Syria. The initial report recorded the death of 85 fighters, when the dead turned out to be 120 peasants and villagers.
According to the report, poor or inadequate surveillance footage they regularly contributed to deadly blunders.
More recently, the United States had to admit your mistake after claiming that a vehicle destroyed by a drone in Kabul in August contained bombs. The victims of the attack were 10 members of a family.
Many civilian survivors of the US attacks they were left with disabilities requiring expensive treatment, but fewer than a dozen compensation payments were recorded.
Asked by the newspaper, Captain Bill Urban, spokesman for the Central Command, said that “even with the best technology in the world Errors occur, either based on incomplete information or misinterpretation of available information. And we try to learn from those mistakes. “
We work diligently to avoid causing this type of damage. We investigate every credible case. And we mourn the loss of every innocent life.
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The United States Air Campaign in the Middle East grew up in recent years of the mandate of the former president Barack Obama, as public support for a war on the ground waned.
Obama said that the use of remotely controlled aircrafts favored “the most accurate air campaign ever”Capable of minimizing civilian deaths.
But in five years, the United States Air Force executed more than 50,000 air strikes in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, according to the Times report. (I)
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