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Report: US intentionally holding back attacks on obvious key ISIL targets

The US, which is leading a bombing campaign against purported ISIL positions in Syria and Iraq, is intentionally avoiding carrying out attacks against certain high-profile ISIL targets in the two countries despite having precise information about them, a report says. According to a report published by The New York Times on Tuesday, US intelligence officers have identified seven buildings as 'the main headquarters' of ISIL in the Syrian city of Raqqa, located 550 kilometers (341 miles) northeast of the capital, Damacus. However, the report said, the buildings have gone 'untouched' during the US-led bombing campaign, which started in September 2014.”

The New York Times report said that heavily-armed ISIL militants 'paraded triumphantly' in the streets of Ramadi, the provincial capital of Iraq’s western province of al-Anbar, last week without being targeted by the US. 'They rolled on unscathed by coalition fighter bombers.' The refusal by the US to target the “obvious” ISIL targets comes while 'American and allied warplanes are equipped with the most precise aerial arsenal ever fielded.' Some Iraqi military officers argue that the US is allowing columns of the ISIL terrorists free movement on the battlefield too frequently.”

The report said US officials attempt to justify the inaction on the ISIL targets by presenting concerns that carrying out airstrikes against them could potentially cause collateral damage.”


The excuse of collateral damage provided by the US officials to justify the inaction on ISIL targets, sounds ridiculous considering that in all previous wars (Yugoslavia, Iraq, etc.), the US was justifying the death of thousands of civilians as unavoidable collateral damage.

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