The expense of victims of US invasions in the Middle East went to millions

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Washington continues to blame Moscow for the fact that its air operation in Syria leads to the death of civilians. Experts consider such stuffing as episodes of the information war against Russia. Meanwhile, the expense of the victims of wars caused by the invasion of the US Army in the countries of the Middle East has already gone on in millions.

On the eve of the International Commission for Fact-Finding (The International Humanitarian Factor-Finding Commission, IHFFC) on the initiative of another international organization - Doctors Without Borders (MSF) - began work on the investigation of US air strikes on a hospital in Kunduz. “This is the first step to be taken to conduct an independent investigation into the attack on the MSF 3 hospital in October,” said Doctors Without Borders on its website. IHFFC is a supranational body to investigate violations of international humanitarian law. Formally, it was created in 1991 in Bern under the Swiss Foreign Ministry, and it was established by its countries that ratified the Geneva Conventions for the Protection of War Victims. IHFFC has observer status at the UN, but only on Wednesday, for the first time in its stories - this status was really involved.

“We received apologies and condolences, but this is not enough. We still do not know why a well-known hospital filled with patients and medical staff underwent repeated air strikes that lasted about an hour. We need to know what happened and why, ”Joan Liu, head of“ Doctors Without Borders, ”said.
As the newspaper VIEW has previously written, the Doctors Without Borders hospital, in which there were about 200 people, was partially destroyed by the bombing of the US Air Force. Killed 22 person. In the White House, the victims of the bombing were rather cynically called "collateral damage." The incident is being investigated by the Pentagon and NATO, as well as by the Afghan authorities.

Precept General Otto


When the operation of the FAC of the Russian Federation in Syria has just begun, the West immediately accused Russia of the fact that dozens of civilians, including children, were victims of this operation. The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that at least 27 people were killed as a result of air strikes near the western province of Homs. “Among the victims are six children and dozens of injured,” British Guardian and Daily Mail newspapers reported on the 30 day of September. However, many British bloggers themselves ridiculed publications for clumsy propaganda against Moscow, recalling, in particular, that there is only one person in the observatory who is in London, and he claims that Russia is using banned cluster bombs in Syria.

As a result, the version of the British media refused to confirm the head of the Pentagon Ashton Carter. And President Vladimir Putin 1 of October completely refuted all speculation. “With regard to any information in the media about the fact that the civilian population suffers, we are ready for these information attacks. I draw your attention to the fact that the first information that there are civilian casualties came before our planes went up to the sky, ”the president recalled.

However, the accusations against Moscow did not stop. On the third day of the operation - October 2 - Lieutenant-General Robert P. Otto, Deputy Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force for Intelligence, stated that the Russian Aerospace Force used unguided bombs instead of using weapon with laser or satellite guidance. "This is a typical example of what to expect from this kind of bombs when they are dropped from airplanes flying at medium altitude, and this is not such an impressive result," - Lieutenant-General quoted the Washington Post. Otto suggested that Russian tactics would invariably lead to civilian casualties and provoke a reaction against the Kremlin. “I think that accuracy plays a big role,” said Otto. According to him, the United States and its allies are extremely careful in choosing targets in Syria and Iraq. In addition to using guided weapons, a coalition led by the United States relies on unmanned aerial vehicles and other tracking devices to ensure that there are no civilians in the attack site. “Our approach is to use force very carefully,” the Lieutenant General concluded.
But American political scientist and publicist Paul Grenier believes that Washington’s politicians have no moral right to reproach in principle, if you remember how many civilians died as a result of American interventions, for example, in countries such as Iraq or Afghanistan. “The drama is that our military speak in such a cynical language, and no one directs them from above in a constructive way. In principle, the military should not say such things, they do not determine policy. This is absurd! This means that the president of the United States does not give them direction. If you look at the American press, many commentators now complain that there is no consistent foreign policy in the country, ”said Grenier to the VIEW newspaper.

At the same time, he emphasizes that the American press is now "much less anti-Russian than it was just a month ago." "It's amazing! The tone is this: yes, we do not like Putin, but he has a clear course. Why don't we cooperate with him? It is clear that ISIS is an absolute evil, it is the devil. So let's cooperate in the fight against this devil, and then deal with the rest of the problems. Many experts think so. I am sure that many generals think so. But while the generals are trying not to look weak in public and blame Russia for the fact that someone there suffered from the bombing. The military must say “Is!” And carry out what politicians order them to do, ”summed up the American expert.

A dozen bloody years




Half a year before the death of the Doctors Without Borders activists in Kunduz, another international organization, Doctors of the World for a Preventing Nuclear War (Physicians For Social Responsibility), released its report on the number of victims in countries that have undergone a US invasion (VNESV is known, in particular, by winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985). The figures are shocking: in the 12 years of fighting the United States, one million three hundred thousand people were killed, and this number of casualties is only in three countries - Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, the report says.
In Iraq alone, about one million people died during the American intervention, which is approximately 5% of the country's population. Another 220 thousand died in Afghanistan, 80 thousand - in Pakistan. The organization warned that it did not take into account the dead due to joint operations of the United States and allies in Yemen and Syria, otherwise the number of victims would most likely exceed two million.

In addition, the report noted that approximately three million people in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan fled the country after the bombing of the Pentagon. "The figures obtained are approximately 10 times higher than those provided by official statistics and which are used by the mainstream media and experts," the RIA report quotes "News". - The United States conducts rigorous counts of victims among its own military personnel involved in the war against terrorism, but there is no statistics on civilian casualties. This is a deliberate omission. ”

The calculations of the NPSECs were based on the results of various studies, UN statistics, data from governments and various non-governmental organizations.

Against the background of such statistics, Vladimir Ivanenko, a senior research fellow at the Middle East Sector of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies (RISS), calls for not to forget that there is an information war around Syria. “After Russia delivers pinpoint strikes on extremists, they have nothing left to do, how to say: behold, they say, the Russians are beating on the civilian population. But, as far as I know, such statements are not much confirmed, - said the expert to the VIEW. - This is how our air strikes differ from what the US-led coalition did. She simply signified her actions, imitated war. ”

The expense of victims of US invasions in the Middle East went to millions


At the same time, the expert of RISI explained why the people of Iraq suffered such huge losses, although the Pentagon seems to be using high-precision weapons. “The fact is that Americans in the countries of the East are fueling conflicts. Such heavy losses in Iraq are caused not only by the strikes of the American troops themselves, it is mainly the result of the chaos and civil war that the Americans provoked with their invasion, ”said Ivanenko.
In turn, the chairman of the OP commission on the development of public diplomacy, the first vice-president of the International Public Fund “Russian Peace Fund” Elena Sutormina recalls that numerous throws about allegedly Syrians dying under Russian bombs were not subsequently confirmed. “The videos prove our aviation destroys militant defense nodes, their command posts, their equipment. Apparently, the fact that Russia is successfully fighting terror in Syria is causing irritation to the West. Obviously, the United States is unwilling to cooperate. They put their leadership higher than security, ”Sutormina told VZGLYAD newspaper.

Great Hunt


Assertions of Lieutenant-General Otto are indeed far from always confirmed by practice. The blow to the hospital in Kunduz was not the first report about the death of a purely civilian population from the American bombardment. So, on September 23, at least eight civilians, including three children, were victims of US air strikes against positions of ISIL and Dzhebhat al-Nusra. True, it is worth making a reservation that as a result of the attacks, at least 30 militants were indeed killed.

A few months earlier, on May 2, more than 50 civilians died as a result of air strikes by the US and its coalition allies. As reported by the BBC that day, “there are still people” under the rubble of buildings in a village in northern Syria.

A year ago, on October 7, in the Iraqi city of Hit, 22 civilians, including women and children, were injured over 40 victims of US air strikes. Although the purpose of this attack was the position of ISIS, the shells fell on the territory of the market, the First Channel explained then.

And on September 16, the UN Human Rights Council said that for civilians in Yemen, American Drones have become more dangerous than al-Qaeda, since they have killed more civilians there over the past year than at the hands of Islamist militants.
Already on September 28 in Yemen, the aircraft of the US allies - the Saudis - mistakenly struck two missile and bomb attacks on a local wedding. The tragedy occurred in the village of Wahija near the city of Al-Mokha, in the south of the country. According to preliminary data, the incident killed 30 people, dozens of injured. Presidential spokesman Abd-Rabbo Mansur Hadi lamented the "monstrous mistake," Reuters reports. Recall that Washington as a whole maintains Saudi Arabia’s air war in Yemen.

Drones must be given special emphasis, because since the US began using them to hunt Islamists, there have been many reports of "collateral losses" from countries in the Middle East and Africa. So, back in January 2007, a four-year-old child died in Somalia. The blow struck the aircraft AC-130, equipped with a high-precision target detection system. In total, as emphasized in the transitional government of Somalia, “many” people died as a result of the flights.

In addition, human rights activists from Human Rights Watch back in the spring of 2003, immediately after the US invasion of Iraq, condemned the Pentagon for using cluster bombs. Cluster bombs open in the air, scattering hundreds of small explosive devices. Not all of them explode, falling to the ground, and then turn into mines. According to the calculations of this organization, even during the war in the Persian Gulf area in 1991, up to 50 million such mini-bombs were scattered on Iraqi territory, as a result of which 80 of the US military and four thousand civilians were injured or killed.
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  1. +4
    18 October 2015 06: 16
    When the operation of the HSC RF in Syria had just begun, the West immediately accused Russia of the fact that dozens of civilians, including children, were victims of this operation.
    In Iraq alone, about one million people died during the American intervention, which is about 5% of the country's population.

    This question, the question of information support, for our country seems to be the most difficult to solve, in view of the fact that we have practices with Gulkin ... Let us recall the first Chechen company, how many lives could be saved, have the experience of countering impudent, unlimited disinformation.
    1. +3
      18 October 2015 08: 09
      venaya (1)
      This ... question about information support, for our country ...
      The United States pursues a policy of "Controlled chaos" which should expand in the world, like circles on the water, from the combat zone of terrorists to other countries with the organization of a mass of refugees. Therefore, the United States will continue to pursue a policy of provocations against hospitals and civilians, so that people have the land burning under their feet.
      Naturally, Americans need to hide such a policy from the world community as long as possible, shifting their guilt to other countries - primarily to Russia, as their geopolitical adversary.
      It is from this essence of the policy of “controlled chaos” that we must proceed from exposing the United States in its struggle for world domination.
    2. +3
      18 October 2015 10: 21
      It’s good that even with us the veil fell from my eyes. Before I was in the center of events in Ukraine, I believed that in the West, democracy and mostly the media do not lie. Probably there were a lot of people like me. But now neither I, nor my children, nor most of my friends believe in this. And these beliefs will expand as circles on the water. And the water wears away the stone.
      1. +2
        18 October 2015 10: 42
        With VGTRK
        Last Sunday, October 11, the world saw a new episode of the American TV series Homeland - in Russia it is known under the names "Alien Among Friends" or "Homeland". The premiere went well with nearly 1,5 million viewers in the States alone. But Tradition of Hospitality has the most fans in the Middle East. The reason is not at all in the skillful acting or in the script, but in the scenery. The thing is, three artists hired by HBO producers decided to sabotage. Instead of "Hail Allah" on the walls of the alleged Hezbollah camp in Lebanon, they briefly and clearly stated their attitude towards the series. "Homeland is just a joke, but it doesn't seem funny to us", "The creators of the series are racists", "You don't have any homeland" - perhaps the most neutral of these graffiti. The whole Arab world reacted.
        http://www.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=2676565
  2. +5
    18 October 2015 06: 24
    The United States began to resemble a whiner who can’t change anything, but who still has a great desire and is so global - to send an extra spit in the direction of an overtaking
    - reluctance to contact him !!!

    To invest so many grandmas in Igil and ... in 3 weeks more than half of the created CSP under the TAIL!
    Not only that, one has to wash oneself with shame from the fact that everything turned out to be sham and slippery, like the sides of a once-toothed sharky shark ...
  3. +3
    18 October 2015 06: 33
    The USA is the main (if not the only) terrorist of the planet!
  4. +2
    18 October 2015 06: 43
    I draw your attention to the fact that the first information that there were casualties among the civilian population appeared before our planes took to the skies, ”the president recalled.
    This became the norm for democracy-affirming Goebbels followers, including our "free" ones. One handwriting, already recognizable.
  5. +2
    18 October 2015 07: 11
    Libya, Iraq, Egypt, Syria. Countries that were not a source of terrorism or tension in the region, after Washington reshaped the political map of the Middle East to suit its interests, became a source of war and hundreds of thousands of refugees every year. Washington should forget about all the ideas to introduce "democracy" in the Middle East. There has never been and will never be democracy, it is simply unrealizable. IS is only backed by the interests of the West, which use terrorists for their geopolitical purposes. IS is not an ideology, but a tool.
  6. +14
    18 October 2015 07: 50
    The USA and transnational companies are the terrorist number 1, and ISIS, al-Qaeda are their offspring, their children
  7. +1
    18 October 2015 09: 12
    Genocide must be judged for this.
  8. +1
    18 October 2015 10: 46
    The account of the victims of US invasions in the Middle East went to millions.
    But gallop "democracy" brought ...
  9. +1
    18 October 2015 10: 54
    The expense of victims of US invasions in the Middle East went to millions

    And, which is typical, Europe and other countries know about this, but they continue to support the killer and terrorist in the person of the United States. This is right from the textbook of psychology - a severe syndrome. But we have a proverb - "Wedge, wedge kick out. "Probably only this will be an effective cure for this syndrome.
  10. +4
    18 October 2015 16: 39
    The most interesting thing is that everyone understands and knows everything perfectly, but the "golden calf" continues to rule.
  11. 0
    18 October 2015 22: 03
    The daily joyful exclamations of our patriots cheers are not clear. The war in Syria is a serious thing. Our aircraft has reached its limit in combat capabilities. And so on three sorties per day. Pilots are real heroes. And the mechanics, too, along with the gunsmiths. But our aircraft cannot influence the real offensive of the Syrian army due to their small numbers. Therefore, the beginning of the offensive stalled and was limited to the liberation of one small valley. I, like all normal people, worry about our military and the Syrian people. But I will not hope for a speedy victory! The war will be long and difficult, and given the scumbag essence of our partners because of the puddle, it can not do without losses.
    Therefore, I am nervous, worried about OUR and keep the cam in my pocket. And hurray to scream early!

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