Post by Logan on Apr 18, 2017 2:26:40 GMT -6
April 18 (UPI) -- A report released Tuesday said the U.S. bombed a Syrian mosque in an airstrike last month, which the U.S. military had denied.
The Human Rights Watch report on the attack on Omar Ibn al-Khatab Mosqu suggests the U.S. failed to take "all feasible precautions" to avoid civilian casualties.
The U.S. military said it carried out a March 16 airstrike on a building where al-Qaida militants were meeting, not on a mosque next door where activists said 46 civilians were killed in a bombing.
"We did not target any mosques," said U.S. Central Command spokesman Col. John J. Thomas. "What we did target was destroyed. There is a mosque within 50 feet of that building that is still standing."
Read more: www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2017/04/18/Report-US-airstrikes-hit-Syrian-mosque/4691492490851/
The Human Rights Watch report on the attack on Omar Ibn al-Khatab Mosqu suggests the U.S. failed to take "all feasible precautions" to avoid civilian casualties.
The U.S. military said it carried out a March 16 airstrike on a building where al-Qaida militants were meeting, not on a mosque next door where activists said 46 civilians were killed in a bombing.
"We did not target any mosques," said U.S. Central Command spokesman Col. John J. Thomas. "What we did target was destroyed. There is a mosque within 50 feet of that building that is still standing."
Read more: www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2017/04/18/Report-US-airstrikes-hit-Syrian-mosque/4691492490851/