Talk:Possible strike errors

Not sure how useful this page is when Russian and coalition strike errors have their own sections ... --Caustic Logic (talk) 03:53, 13 December 2015 (UTC)

... but since it's here, this pattern comes up. The McClatchy article mentions one precedent in Bab, Aleppo back in January.
 * when U.S. aircraft struck a building in the town center, apparently unaware that it had been turned into a jail for civilians. At least two Syrian human rights watchdog groups confirmed the McClatchy report and obtained lists of those killed. The Central Command has never acknowledged the civilian deaths.

And before that was even more killed (69) in Ber Mahle, Aleppo. Covered [Air Strikes in Syria#The Blame for Ber Mahli here.] Many other example surely exist, most of them smaller but adding up.

One or all of these might be straight-up errors but my suspicion is Deash trickery. They take people they don't like anyway and are holding captive, stuff them in a place they make sure gets seen as a base of theirs, maybe already dead, and wait for the bombs to fall. Coalition refuses to acknowledge any of these (while exhibiting "fears") maybe on principle that it wasn't their screw-up, just their bombs. They admit mistakes, not times they were duped.

Besides keeping one bomb off your own guys, getting rid of local enemies with no blame, and getting the blame on your other enemies, one other motive might be to get this result, now reported by ABD Australia after the latest incident:
 * A Northern Territory-based Royal Australian Air Force pilot who took part in the first airstrikes against Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria says missions have been called off due to the risk of civilian casualties.

--Caustic Logic (talk) 03:53, 13 December 2015 (UTC)