Pentagon Blames Russia for Its Airstrikes on Syria’s Military
By Stephen Lendman | December 8, 2015
A previous article explained Syria’s Foreign Ministry reported US-led warplanes bombed its army camp in Deir ez Zor province – killing three soldiers, injuring 13 others, as well as destroying three armored vehicles, four military vehicles, an arms and ammunition depot, along with 23mm and 14.5mm machine guns.
The Pentagon denied being caught red-handed in its latest attempt to push back on Russia’s effective intervention against ISIS and other terrorists groups in Syria.
It blamed Moscow for its provocative aggression. An unnamed Pentagon spokesman lied, claiming it’s “certain” a Russian warplane carried out the attack. “We’ve got a radar track showing a Backfire bomber flying directly over the town that the Syrians named a few minutes before the first claims that we killed some Syrian troops.”
Who knows what Washington has or doesn’t have. It’s “certain” it bore full responsibility for the incident. Russian airstrikes are directed solely against ISIS and other terrorist groups with pinpoint accuracy, shown by photographic evidence each time.
A US-led anti-Assad coalition statement claiming attacks were conducted “against oil well heads” about 35 miles from the Syrian base was a bald-faced lie – compounded by saying its warplanes struck no “personnel targets…We have no indication any Syrian soldiers were near our strikes.”
The dead, injured and destruction tell another tale. Even the pro-Western, London-based, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights surprisingly reported US-led airstrikes attacked a Syrian military post near Ayyash in western Deir al-Zour on Sunday.
It bears repeating, the Pentagon was caught red-handed. Russia so far hasn’t commented on the incident or false accusations claiming its warplanes were responsible.
US, UK, French and other coalition partners continue bombing Syrian infrastructure and government targets. Sunday’s attack was the first known attack directed at Assad’s military – suggesting more provocative actions to come.
So far, they’ve included a Turkish warplane downing a Russia Su-24 bomber in Syrian airspace – OK’d by Washington, Ankara obstructing Russian sea traffic through the Bosphorus Strait and Dardanelles in either direction, international waterways in northwest Turkey connecting the Black Sea to the Mediterranean.
Erdogan is involved in stealing, smuggling, transporting, refining and black market selling industrial scale quantities of Iraqi and Syrian oil.
He’s illegally bombing Kurdish fighters in northern Syria and Iraq – on the phony pretext of combating ISIS. His troops operate illegally in northern Iraq, violating its sovereign territory – perhaps to keep oil smuggling routes open and aiming to expand Turkish borders, incorporating parts of northern Iraq and Syria.
Washington is sending more specials forces to Syria on top of thousands already there, along with additional numbers illegally to Syria, perhaps many more to follow.
Fars News reported “US experts” intend turning a “desolate airport… controlled by Kurdish forces in Syria’s Hasaka region… into a (US) military base.”
Runways are being constructed to accommodate US warplanes – the operation entirely illegal, uninvited on foreign soil.
Washington is upping the stakes, escalating things dangerously toward direct confrontation with Russia, a reckless act – complicit with Turkey, Britain and other coalition partners.
Obama earlier promising he’ll “not put American boots on the ground” proved false – one of his many Big Lies. Will full-scale US invasion follow – with thousands of US special forces and perhaps other combat troops, protected by US warplanes?
War winds are blowing dangerously toward gale force. Possible US instigated nuclear war is humanity’s greatest threat.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.
His new book as editor and contributor is titled “Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III.”
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Considering that Russia is allied with Syria’s legitimate regime and Obama funded ISIS to bring it down, the Pentagon’s claim, why expected and understandable, is unlikely to be accurate. Not impossible though, mind you. Friendly fire may not be friendly, but it is a sad fact of war.
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Agreed. When it suits America’s “propaganda machine”(ie, the Mainstream Media) ‘spokesmen’ for the US military love to gloat about their ability for ‘precision bombing’ or ‘keyhole’ rocket strikes, but when the hit hospitals, weddings, or other civilian targets, they issue contemptuous “oops, we’re sorry, that was an accident” statements.
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at this late stage in the decline of Constitutional America, blaming the figurehead President for the US inclination to an old fashioned blood & guts world war is as silly as blaming the british monarch or the Canadian vice-regal Governor General for Wall Street’s capacity to compel the USA, UK and Canada to poodle up to warmongers’ plutocratic diktats.
If there is no civil political freedom in the USA, then there is even less in the american colonial vassal states. Canada has the emblematic freedom to follow the US highway and distinguish itself only with distinctive bumpers and hood ornaments. And, there is even less tolerance for UK distinctions which must more closely emulate the US lust for war business and express very un-british hornyness for pillage, mayhem and resource plunder.
Things can change, but only after we and particularly the citizens of the USA publically acknowledge that our sovereignty and democracy are mortgaged to plutocrats and our citizenship is, though comforting, no more real than the putative President’s freedom from slavery.
Triggering that moment of collective awareness and acknowledgement of our hijacked political situation is the first self-emancipating step on a path to peace, diplomacy, respect for sovereignty, human rights, environmental priorities and freedom from plutocrats, aristocrats and their henchmen.
Who was on first, and
Now, Who is going to bell the cat!
The Who we are is fearless.
…to you from failing hands we throw….
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