It’s a tragedy, but what’s a NATO pilot supposed to do? From 30,000 feet, everybody down there kind of looks alike what with all the women in burkas, all the men in keffiyehs, and all the goats in fear.
Reuters has details of NATO’s mission gone wrong:
At least 40 civilians have been killed in air strikes by Western forces on Tripoli, the top Vatican official in the Libyan capital told a Catholic news agency on Thursday, quoting witnesses.
“The so-called humanitarian raids have killed dozens of civilian victims in some neighborhoods of Tripoli,” said Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli, the Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli.
“I have collected several witness accounts from reliable people. In particular, in the Buslim neighborhood, due to the bombardments, a civilian building collapsed, causing the death of 40 people,” he told Fides, the news agency of the Vatican missionary arm.
Libyan officials have taken foreign reporters to the sites of what they say were the aftermath of Western air strikes on Tripoli but evidence of civilian casualties has been inconclusive.
Western powers say they have no confirmed evidence of civilian casualties from air strikes, which they have carried out under a U.N. mandate to protect civilians caught in conflict between Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s forces and rebels.
“It’s true that the bombardments seem pretty much on target, but it is also true that when they hit military targets, which are in the middle of civilian neighborhoods, the population is also involved,” Martinelli said.
Translation: Shit happens.
Is it just us or does this sound suspiciously like “We had to destroy the village in order to save it.”
Source: Reuters
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This is exactly that scumbag dictators like Daffy put military installations in the middle of population centers. And hide their mobile equipment near schools, etc. They don't care how many of their own people get killed. As long as they get to point to the West, and claim that we're indiscriminately killing civilians.
All 'sides' in the Arab/Muslim world are against the civilized world, it doesn't seem to matter who's in charge, so bomb'em now or later, whatever....
Nice pic of Canadian F-18's!
Oh, it's OK for Obama and NATO to have civilian casualties but God forbid GWB has civilian casualties....just sayin'. I think the MSM should be tried as traitors to our country and as punishment sent to live in the countries they love so much!
Okay libs save your typing. I'll handle it. It's all Bush's fault. There, feel better now.
I'm with jukin on this one. Were they civilian civilians, or protester civilians, or rebel civilians, or Al QAIEDA civilians, because they all look the same from 30,00 feet!
These were not civilian civilians.
All is well. Move along now.
"At least 40 civilians have been killed in air strikes by Western forces on Tripoli"...
It would've been so much more productive of NATO resources if that number would've been 40,000,000 million followers of the pedophile prophet...
Think Lockerbie...