New York Times Report Says US Drone Strikes Killed Thousands Of Civilians

US drones have killed thousands of civilians, according to a report in The New York Times 

Mercury News/New York Times: Hidden Pentagon records reveal patterns of failure in deadly airstrikes  

Shortly before 3 a.m. on July 19, 2016, U.S. Special Operations forces bombed what they believed were three Islamic State “staging areas” on the outskirts of Tokhar, a riverside hamlet in northern Syria. They reported 85 fighters killed. In fact, they hit houses far from the front line, where farmers, their families and other local people sought nighttime sanctuary from bombing and gunfire. More than 120 villagers were killed. 

In early 2017 in Iraq, an American warplane struck a dark-colored vehicle, believed to be a car bomb, stopped at an intersection in the Wadi Hajar neighborhood of West Mosul. Actually, the car had been bearing not a bomb but a man named Majid Mahmoud Ahmed, his wife and their two children, who were fleeing the fighting nearby. They and three other civilians were killed. 

In November 2015, after observing a man dragging an “unknown heavy object” into an ISIS “defensive fighting position,” U.S. forces struck a building in Ramadi, Iraq. A military review found that the object was actually “a person of small stature” — a child — who died in the strike. 

None of these deadly failures resulted in a finding of wrongdoing.  

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New York Times Report Says US Drone Strikes Killed Thousands Of Civilians  

Pentagon documents reveal 'deeply flawed' US air war: report -- France 24  

US drone strikes killed thousands of civilians: report -- DW  

NYT investigation reveals ‘hundreds’ of civilian deaths uncounted in US strikes -- RT  

US air wars in Middle East ‘deeply flawed’: Report -- Al Jazeera

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