American military intentionally beat civil in Syria

Classified American special group in Syria, coordinated by strikes on the positions of the terrorist organization “Islamic State” (ISIL), often offered dubious goals for the military, which led to victims among civilians. This is reported to the New York Times newspaper with reference to the former and existing representatives of military structures, as well as intelligence.

According to sources, agreed to talk about the detachment called Talon Anvil on anonymity, the division neglected the safety standards and did not always carefully checked the resulting development on the location of columns, mined machines and militant command centers. The work methods of the group operating from 2014 to 2019 were concerned with other military and CIA staff. Farmers, children and families who tried to hide from hostilities were becoming victims of strikes.

It is noted that no more than 20 people acted as part of Talon Anvil, during the coordination of the unit could be issued about 112 thousand missiles and bombs. Many strikes were made not on behalf of the high-ranking military, and on the initiative of the special forces of low-ranking special forces in the group. The pilots of US Air Force bombers sometimes refused to dump bombs, because they believed that Talon Anvil proposes to hit dubious purposes in densely populated areas.

According to the former adviser to the State Department and Pentagon, Larry Lewis, the number of victims among civilians in Syria during such strikes 10 times exceeded the number of losses in similar operations in Afghanistan. However, as noted, the command ignored data on the growth of the number of victims. In addition, the group’s activities were so classified that it officially did not exist.