File:East Aleppo bomb craters by UN.jpg


 * Description
 * ''This satellite images released by the United Nations, shows road damage and craters, in the Sha'ar district of Aleppo, Syria, Sept. 25, 2016. One official with the U.N.'s satellite imagery program saying new pictures from rebel-held parts areas of the city show "an awful lot of new damage" _ presumably by airstrikes. The release coincides with a stepped-up offensive by Syrian pro-government forces that are attacking the city from the south in a bid to penetrate its opposition-controlled areas, where the U.N. estimates 275,000 people are trapped in a government siege. (Digital Globe, US Department of State, Humanitarian Information Unit, UNITAR-UNOSAT via AP)


 * Source
 * UN releases satellite images of damage in Syria’s Aleppo - Jamey Keaten, The Associated Press, October 5, 2016
 * (Article updated, mirrors of original: New York Post, The Times Record)


 * Other verions
 * Syria aid convoy was hit by an air strike: UN

Discussion
Three very close and apparently quite large craters, hmm...Could be shallow or deep, hard to know. Is it there at all? liveuamap appears to locate this elsewhere. If this is Urm al-Kubra still, will be good to locate those with respect to warehouse, trucks, and big flashes on video... --Resup (talk) 09:45, 6 October 2016 (UTC)

BBC propaganda stunt

 * Syria conflict: Aid convoy attack was air strike, UN expert says - BBC News, October 5, 2016
 * ''Lars Bromley, research adviser at the UN Operational Satellite Applications Programme (Unosat), told a news briefing in Geneva: "With our analysis we determined it was an air strike and I think multiple other sources have said that as well." "For air strikes, what you are usually  looking at is the size of the crater that is visible, and the type of crater," he added. "Basically air-dropped munitions are often much larger than anything you would fire from the ground."
 * ''But another Unosat official, Einar Bjorgo, who also attended the press conference, later toned down the language in an interview with Reuters, saying the agency was not 100% certain. "There is significant damage, and we believe it may be air strikes, but it's not conclusive."

Who the hell is Lars Bromley? Google finds the answer: -- Petri Krohn (talk) 09:44, 6 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Lars Bromley - Geospatial Analyst, UNITAR/UNOSAT
 * ''Lars Bromley is an analyst with the UN Institute for Training and Research Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNITAR/UNOSAT). He was previously project director with the Science and Human Rights Program at the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has conducted extensive work to apply remote sensing, satellite imagery, and related tools to large-scale atrocities in Darfur, Burma, Ethiopia, and elsewhere, in partnership with Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and numerous other organizations. He has published in the International Journal of Remote Sensing, the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, and other publications and has presented at a wide variety of academic and private-sector venues. He holds an MA in geography from the University of Maryland.

Note the date: on Oct. 5, "a meeting of the Principals Committee, which includes Cabinet-level officials", after an earlier deputies committee meeting where  US 'limited military strikes against the regime' were considered-Washington Post, Oct. 4, 2016 --Resup (talk) 10:11, 6 October 2016 (UTC)