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   From: Jack@nowhere.com   
      
   burfordTjustice  posted   
   >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."   
   >   
      
   Are we seriously expected to believe that pile of self-serving shite?   
      
   --   
   Jack   
      
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