Rebel Clinics and Hospitals


 * Russian MOD, Feb. 11, 2016


 * Yesterday, Pentagon spokesman Colonel Steven Warren, sitting in Iraq, said the alleged Russian aircraft bombed during day time two hospitals in Aleppo. As a result, he said, supposedly about 50 thousand Syrians have been deprived of essential services for them. Spokesman could not squeeze from himself anything more on the subject. Neither the time nor the origin of these hospitals or sources of the information. Just nothing.


 * We had a night to scrutinize  this information.


 * ''When such nonsense is said by human rights activists in London - is one thing. But when it is said by a Pentagon official, who has positioned himself as a military professional - a completely different situation.

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 * We have carefully analyzed the data on targets, which were affected yesterday in Aleppo province. First of all, to disappoint Colonel Warren upset - he guessed wrong. Russian planes did not work yesterday in Aleppo area . The immediate aim was more than 20 kilometers from the city.


 * And over by the city yesterday only actively flying aircrafts were from the so-called anti-IS coalition: aircraft and attack drones. As promised to our American partners, we will no longer hide this information.


 * Yesterday at 13:55 Moscow time from Turkey, on the shortest course right on Aleppo, two  "A-10" attack aircraft of the US Air Force  entered the Syrian sky and fully 'worked' on the targets in the city. Colonel Warren somehow did not advertise this fly-by in direct and, incidentally, in a figurative sense, too.


 * Let us not be like the American colonel, and to be honest: we had not have enough time to accurately determine the identity of those 9 objects they bombed yesterday in Aleppo. Perhaps among them were 2 hospital. We will take a closer look.


 * ''But the situation is one to one similar to that when the Americans bombed a hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, or the position of the Iraqi Army in Fallujah. The first thing they do - they throw allegations against us to take away all suspicion.

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 * If this deal goes further, then soon we will have to hold two briefing, first for ourselves, and then for those guys from the coalition, who consider themselves professionals.


 * US A-10s bombed city of Aleppo on Wednesday, shifted blame onto Moscow – Russian military

Department of Defense Press Briefing by Col. Warren via Teleconference from Baghdad, Iraq, Feb 10, 2016