According to Airwars, 9 of the 11 airstrikes reported by the Pentagon in 2020 were not carried out by the United States, but by other countries to jointly combat the Islamic State organization. After falsely claiming responsibility for the killing of 21 civilians in Iraq and Syria and those killed by US allies, the US Department of Defense withdrew part of its official report to Congress. The Pentagon admitted its error on Thursday after reviewing its findings, and the report is no longer available on its website.
“This is an oversight in preparing data for the report:”
Pentagon spokesperson Mike Howard told The Intercept. “We regret this mistake.”
The findings are part of the Pentagon’s 2020 annual report on civilian casualties caused by U.S. operations, which was released on May 28. Since 2018, reporting global civilian injuries to Congress has been a legal requirement of the Department of Defense.
Airwars tracked the “harm to civilians caused by airpower-led international military operations.” It notified the Department of Defense of this error in early June. On August 5, the Pentagon issued an appendix that deleted the nine incidents. The Pentagon and the US Central Command did not respond to Middle East Eye’s request for comment on the source of the error.
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‘Ethical responsibility’
This error has exacerbated growing concerns about the Pentagon’s civilian harm policy.
After issuing the 2020 civilian casualties report to Congress, some senior Democrats in the House of Representatives and Senate criticized the findings, saying they underestimated the number of civilian casualties. They also criticized the U.S. military for failing to adequately compensate the families of victims who lost their lives in U.S. operations. Cana later wrote a letter with Senator Elizabeth Warren, calling on the U.S. military to completely reform its method of tracking civilian casualties.
The League of Nations:
Headed by the United States, was established in August 2014 to respond to requests for assistance from the Iraqi government in the fight against the Islamic State.
Although the alliance is composed of troops from more than 80 countries, the United States has the largest share.
In 2019:
Coalition forces led by the United States admitted that they had killed 1,302 civilians in Iraq and Syria in battles with ISIS since 2014. However, Air Combat and Amnesty International believe that the actual number of civilian deaths is much higher, with reports that at least 1,600 civilians have been killed. They were killed in only four months in the Syrian city of Raqqa.
In Mali, eyewitness testimony and forensic evidence corroborated earlier reports that after the French army bombed a civilian rally in Bounty village in central Mali on January 3, 2021, instead of conducting a military target rally as in the past, the French government faced New pressure claim.
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