Smoke and flames rise over Syrian town of Kobani after an airstrike, as seen from the Mursitpinar border crossing on the Turkish-Syrian border in the southeastern town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province, October 18, 2014. Credit: Reuters/Kai Pfaffenbach
U.S.-Led Air Strikes Killed 521 Fighters, 32 Civilians In Syria: Monitor -- Reuters
(Reuters) - Air strikes by U.S.-led forces have killed 521 Islamist fighters and 32 civilians during a month-long campaign in Syria, a monitoring group which tracks the violence said on Thursday.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the vast majority of the deaths, 464, were militants from Islamic State, an al Qaeda offshoot which has grabbed large areas of Syria and neighboring Iraq.
The attacks also killed 57 members of the al Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front, the Observatory said. Six of the civilians were children and five were women, it added.
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My Comment: They are very very exact in their numbers .... which is very strange since they do not have anyone on the ground to count the bodies (so they say).
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WNU,
Remember when body counts were considered immoral and counter productive?
And body counts that were almost always wrong. But yes .,... it is amazing that if the mainstream media has a President that they support .... a lot of things are glossed over.
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