New Pentagon reports show that US wars in the Middle East have been characterized by “erroneous intelligence” and “misconceptions that have led to the deaths of more than 1,000 civilians over the past decade,” according to the New York Times. research.
The report, based on the Pentagon’s secret archive, which includes more than 1,300 civilian casualties reports, cuts short the US government ‘s record of war-torn missiles, the book said.
Promises of publicity and accountability, he said, are often limited.
“There is no record of any wrongdoing or punishment,” the newspaper reported in what it said was the first of a two-part series.
Although a number of cases reported in the Times have already been reported, it said their research showed that the number of ordinary people dying “was very low,” by several hundred.
Monitoring errors
In its report, The New York Times also reported on cases of civilian casualties, and none of these excuses.
It also reported the killing of 120 Syrian civilians outside the city of Tokhar, in a July 2016 attack that reportedly killed 85 militants at the time.
Another example came at the launch of a plane crash in November 2015 in the Ramadi region of Iraq, after a man was seen pulling an “unknown and heavy object” into the ISIS (ISIL) area. It was found in a report compiled after it was revealed that the item was a child who had died in the attack.
Neglected or mismanagement often leads to fatal failure, the report said.
Recently, the United States was forced to retaliate by claiming that a car damaged by a drone on the road in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, in August was loaded with bombs.
It was later revealed that the victims were 10 members of the same family.
Many civilians who survived the US invasion, the report says, were left with a disability that required intensive care, but the cost of comfort was less than a dozen.
Asked to comment, Captain Bill Urban, a spokesman for the US Central Command, told the Times that “even with the latest technology in the world, mistakes do occur, whether due to incomplete information or misinterpretation of existing data. And we try to learn from them.
“We do our best to avoid accidents. We look for every reliable model. And we look forward to the loss of any innocent person. ”
Invisible from space
The US airline’s campaign in the Middle East has grown exponentially in the last years of former President Barack Obama’s administration, as humanitarian aid has dwindled in world wars.
Obama said the new system, which often uses remote drones, represents “the most accurate war in history,” one that could reduce civilian casualties.
The new technology made it possible to demolish a section of a building full of enemy fighters and leave the entire building, the Pentagon said.
But in five years, U.S. forces staged more than 50,000 demonstrations in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, the report said, less than the number announced.
In a report, the Times reported that its correspondents “visited more than 100 wounded places and questioned dozens of survivors as well as government officials and former American officials”.
The paper obtained Pentagon documents through the Right to Information petition since March 2017 and the cases filed with the Department of Defense and Central Command. The new suit requires writing from Afghanistan.
Before launching an airstrip, U.S. forces need to look at a number of ways to compare and reduce civilian casualties.
But there are a number of ways to gain wisdom that can mislead, fail, or sometimes lead to mistakes.
For example, the Times reported, video footage did not show people indoors, under leaves or under tarpaulins or aluminum covers.
And the available data could be misinterpreted, as when people rushing to a new bombing site are thought to be warriors, not rescuers.
At times, the Times reported, “The riders on the motorcycle ‘in an orderly fashion,’ signaling the ‘signature’ of the impending attack, were the men riding the motorcycles.”
Urban, a spokesman for Central Command, said military aircraft carriers do their best in the most difficult situations.
But he added that “often in the military, when fighters face unrealistic threats and do not have a good time, the fog of war can lead to decisions that lead to harm to civilians”.
