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   From: burfordTjustice@tues.uk   
      
   On Fri, 26 May 2017 11:15:50 +0100   
   Vidcapper  wrote:   
      
   > It's the first I've heard of it...   
      
   of course it is..   
      
      
   as a Jihad apologist you should know the facts!   
      
   ISIS Tricked US Into Bombing Building Where 100 Innocents Held Captive   
      
   The Islamic State lured U.S.-led forces into conducting an airstrike in March   
   that killed more than 100 civilians in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, a top   
   American military official said Thursday.   
      
   An investigation into the March bombing found that the terror group rigged a   
   house with more than 1,000 pounds of explosives, put civilians in the   
   basement, and employed two ISIS snipers on the roof to bait the U.S.-led   
   coalition to attack.   
      
   U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Matthew Isler, the investigating officer for U.S.   
   Central Command, told Pentagon reporters that the bomb used by the American   
   jet, a GBU-38 (500-pound bomb), would not have caused the type of damage   
   associated with the    
   destruction of the building.   
      
   The probe found that the U.S. bomb triggered secondary explosions from devices   
   clandestinely planted in the lower floors of the concrete building, Isler   
   said. He said neither the Iraqi troops nor the Americans who authorized and   
   conducted the airstrike    
   knew civilians were in the building or that the explosive materials were   
   present.   
      
   Isler added that the home's 30-inch concrete walls were "completely   
   pulverized," but the GBU-38, which has a 192-pound warhead, could not have   
   caused such destruction. The GBU-38 is designed to take out enemy combatants   
   on roof tops, not collapse entire    
   structures.   
      
   The American bomb "wouldn't even dent any of the surrounding walls," he added.   
      
   How ISIS managed to smuggle in half a ton of explosives remains in question,   
   but Isler said bad weather over two days prior to the airstrike hampered the   
   U.S. military's ability to conduct drone reconnaissance over the target area   
   in Mosul and that the    
   weather combined with intense fighting led to "multiple opportunities" for   
   ISIS to smuggle in both the explosives and the civilians into the building.   
      
   "We don't know when it was moved to the residence," Isler said. "No one saw   
   ISIS move explosives into that area."   
      
   Isler said Iraqi forces suffered casualties hours after the strike as they   
   attempted to recover Iraqi civilians killed in the strike and rescue others   
   wounded and trapped under the rubble. Some 101 civilians in the building were   
   killed, and another four    
   died in a nearby building, while 36 civilians remain unaccounted for.   
      
   The airstrike was likely the largest single incident of civilian deaths   
   since the U.S. air campaign against ISIS began in 2014. The deaths   
   represent about a quarter of all civilian deaths associated with U.S.   
   airstrikes since the air campaign began in 2014.   
      
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