PENTAGON Menafikan KEMATIAN orang awam pengeboman di Syria - setakat INI . . .

Pemastautin berjalan dengan runtuhan bangunan yang telah rosak dalam apa aktivis mengatakan adalah salah satu daripada Amerika Syarikat serangan udara Selasa di Kfredrian, wilayah Idlib September 24, 2014 (A resident walks upon the debris of buildings which were damaged in what activists say was one of Tuesday's U.S. air strikes in Kfredrian, Idlib province September 24, 2014 (Reuters/Ammar Abdullah)

KyrolAnz - Memetik penilaian kerosakan pertempuran yang "sehingga sekarang," Pentagon telah menafikan sebarang korban awam akibat serangan udara di Syria, dengan mengatakan bahawa laporan yg belum disahkan kekal & video dipaparkan di media sosial menunjukkan orang awam di bawah runtuhan adalah palsu.

Awal minggu ini, Balai Cerap Syria bagi Hak Asasi Manusia mendakwa 8 orang awam, termasuk 3 kanak-kanak, telah terbunuh dalam serangan udara Amerika Syarikat ke dalam Syria. Pasukan pemberontak, sementara itu, berkata 11 orang awam terbunuh dalam Idlib dan 5 lagi di Homs.

Walau bagaimanapun, jurucakap Pentagon, Kolonel Tentera Steve Warren, ber-kata, walaupun tentera masih mengumpul perisikan kepada keadaan, imej yang diambil dari sebelum dan selepas serangan - bertujuan untuk memukul militan Negara Islam - menunjukkan bahawa tidak ada orang awam telah terbunuh.

"Kami telah mengambil segala tindakan pengurangan disediakan untuk mengu-rangkan korban awam," katanya kepada Los Angeles Times. "Sekarang kami per-caya tidak ada korban awam."

Warren kemudiannya ditanya jika video yang dilihat dalam rangkaian media sosial yang menggambarkan orang awam yang terperangkap di bawah runtuhan adalah palsu, yang dia menjawab, "Ya."

"Kami datang kepada kenyataan bahawa dengan memeriksa kerosakan pertempuran penilaian kami sehingga sekarang," katanya.

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Fadel Abdul Ghany Rangkaian Syria bagi Hak Asasi Manusia telah tidak yakin den-gan kenyataan Pentagon, walaupun. Beliau memberitahu Times bahawa dia mem-failkan laporan dengan Jabatan Negara Amerika Syarikat mengenai perkara itu, tetapi berkata bahawa video dan gambar-gambar kematian tidak terdapat kerana kawasan berkenaan dikawal oleh Negara Islam.

PENTAGON Denies Civilian Deaths in Syria 
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Citing its battle damage assessment “up until now,” the Pentagon has denied any civilian casualties as a result of airstrikes in Syria, saying that reports remain unconfirmed and videos posted on social media showing civilians underneath rubble are fake.

Earlier this week, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claimed that eight civilians, including three children, were killed in US-led airstrikes inside of Syria. Rebel forces, meanwhile, said 11 civilians were killed in Idlib and another five in Homs.

However, a Pentagon spokesman, Army Col. Steve Warren, said that although the military is still gathering intelligence on the situation, imagery taken from before and after the strikes – intended to hit Islamic State militants – showed that no civilians had been killed.

“We took all available mitigating actions to reduce civilian casualties," he said to the Los Angeles Times. "Right now we believe there were no civilian casualties.”

Warren was then asked if the videos seen in social media networks depicting civilians trapped under rubble were fake, to which he replied, “Yes.”

“We come to that statement by examining our battle damage assessment up until now,” he added.

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Fadel Abdul Ghany of the Syrian Network for Human Rights was not convinced by the Pentagon’s statements, though. He told the Times that he filed a report with the US State Department on the matter, but said that videos and photographs of the deaths were not available because the areas in question are controlled by the Islamic State.

Penduduk melihat bangunan yang telah rosak dalam apa aktivis mengatakan adalah salah satu daripada serangan udara Amerika Syarikat Selasa di Kfredrian, wilayah Idlib September 24, 2014 (Residents look at buildings which were damaged in what activists say was one of Tuesday's U.S. air strikes in Kfredrian, Idlib province September 24, 2014 (Reuters/Ammar Abdullah)

"Ada dlm kepentingan Amerika utk menyembunyikannya," katanya. "Realitinya adalah terdapat orang awam dan ada pejuang" di kalangan orang mati.

Walaupun pegawai Amerika menafikan bahawa orang awam telah terbunuh, Setiausaha Agung PBB Ban Ki-moon berkata semalam bahawa Amerika Syarikat dan sekutunya perlu menjaga untuk memastikan bahawa mangsa tersebut adalah terhad, jika tidak dielakkan sama sekali.

"Saya menyesal kehilangan mana2 kehidupan awam akibat serangan terhadap sasaran di Syria," kata Ban pada sidang akhbar sidang kemuncak iklim di New York. "Pihak-pihak yang terlibat dalam kempen ini mesti mematuhi undang-undang kemanusiaan antarabangsa dan mengambil segala langkah berjaga-jaga untuk mengelakkan dan meminimumkan korban awam."

Akaun-akaun yang bercanggah ke atas kematian yang tidak bersalah datang sebagai Amerika Syarikat dan rakan-rakan terus melancarkan serangan udara di Syria dan Iraq, dengan harapan untuk menewaskan kembali Negara Islam militan yang merebak melalui kedua-dua negara.

Pada hari Rabu, Amerika Syarikat telah disertai oleh Arab Saudi dan Emiriah Arab Bersatu dalam serangan yang disasarkan pemasangan minyak yang dipegang oleh militan.

“It’s in the American’s interest to hide it,” he said. “The reality is there are civilians and there are fighters” among the dead.

While American officials deny that civilians have been killed, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday that the US and its allies should take care to ensure that such casualties are limited, if not avoided entirely.

“I regret the loss of any civilian lives as a result of strikes against targets in Syria,” Ban said at a climate summit press conference in New York. “The parties involved in this campaign must abide by international humanitarian law and take all necessary precautions to avoid and minimize civilian casualties.”

The conflicting accounts over innocent deaths come as the United States and its partners continue to launch airstrikes in Syria and Iraq, hoping to beat back Islamic State militants who have spread through both countries. On Wednesday, the US was joined by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in attacks that targeted oil installations held by militants.

Satu imej pegun yang ditangkap dari rakaman video Tentera Laut Amerika Syarikat yang menunjukkan Tomahawk Land-Serangan Peluru Berpandu (TLAM) dilancarkan terhadap sasaran Isil dari cruiser berpandu-peluru berpandu USS Laut Filipina di Teluk, September 23, 2014 (A still image captured from U.S. Navy video footage shows a Tomahawk Land-Attack Missile (TLAM) is launched against ISIL targets from the guided-missile cruiser USS Philippine Sea in the Gulf, September 23, 2014 (Reuters/Abe McNatt/U.S. Navy/Handout)

"Ini kilang berskala kecil dengan syarat bahan api untuk menjalankan operasi Isil, wang untuk membiayai serangan mereka yang berterusan di seluruh Iraq dan Syria, dan aset ekonomi untuk menyokong operasi masa depan mereka," membaca kenyataan Perintah Tengah Amerika Syarikat pada serangan.

"Menghasilkan antara 300 - 500 tong petroleum ditapis setiap hari, Isil diang-garkan menghasilkan sebanyak $ 2 juta setiap hari dari kilang penapisan ini. Pemusnahan dan kemerosotan sasaran ini lagi menghadkan keupayaan Isil untuk memimpin, kawalan, kuasa projek dan melakukan operasi. "

Sebelum itu, serangan Amerika Syarikat ke sasaran kem latihan, ibu pejabat dan bekalan senjata di utara dan timur Syria, walaupun Cerap Syria bagi Hak Asasi Manusia berkata, bangunan kediaman turut musnah.

"These small-scale refineries provided fuel to run ISIL operations, money to finance their continued attacks throughout Iraq and Syria, and an economic asset to support their future operations,” read a US Central Command statement on the strikes. "Producing between 300-500 barrels of refined petroleum per day, ISIL is estimated to generate as much as $2 million per day from these refineries. The destruction and degradation of these targets further limits ISIL’s ability to lead, control, project power and conduct operations."

Before that, US-led attacks targeted training camps, headquarters and weapon supplies in northern and eastern Syria, though the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said residential buildings were also destroyed.

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