Samuel Oakford, Daily Beast: They’re Still Pulling Bodies Out of ISIS’ Capital
An investigation by Airwars.org shows that Coalition-inflicted casualties were vastly higher than acknowledged, and the Trump administration doesn’t want to know.
In the weeks after the defeat of the so-called Islamic State at Raqqa, a woman named Ayat Mohamed—her black clothing covering burns on her body—led a French TV crew to the ruins of a building in the Al Badou neighborhood. Here in late September Ayat’s husband Khaled al Salama, their four children, along with her mother, sister and niece, had all been killed by an alleged strike by the U.S. led coalition. Their bodies remained trapped below.
“The planes were bombing and rockets were falling 24 hours a day,” said a tearful Ayat. “There were ISIS snipers everywhere, you couldn’t breath.” In all directions, buildings had been destroyed, and it was hard to tell where one structure began and another ended. “My children are still there, buried under the rubble,” she told the camera. “No one has dug them out yet.” Ayat said she could not afford to have their bodies retrieved. “How can I get them out of these ruins, how can I see them?”
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WNU Editor: The above video is from November 30, 2017, and one can tell immediately that the city was completely destroyed. Three and half months later .... according to the above Daily Beast post .... the process of finding bodies and cleaning up the rubble is going on, and I will not be surprised if it will take years before the all dead are finally buried and all the ruins have been removed. And in the end you will have to wonder .... was it all worth it.
