BREAKING: US jets dropped three huge bombs on a group of women and children in Syria in 2019. The military says the strike killed only four civilians. We found something much different. @EricSchmittNYT nytimes.com/2021/11/13/us/…
@EricSchmittNYT The strikes were called in by a classified SpecOps group called Task Force 9 that was so often associated with bad strikes that the CIA reported them for killing civilians and the DoD wrote up a top secret report.
@EricSchmittNYT Task Force 9 was so secretive hat its own military partners often didn't know what it was doing. When it ordered the strike that hit a crowd of women and children, Air Force operations center staff watching on a hi-def drone feed had no idea what was going on.
@EricSchmittNYT When the bad strike was reported, the unit that assessed whether civilians been killed or laws had been broken was the same unit that called in the strike. Maybe not surprisingly, they found they had done nothing wrong.
@EricSchmittNYT Military officers and workers in the military's own watchdog agency, the Inspector General's Office, tried to sound the alarm that a war crime had taken place, but an independent investigation was never done.
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