US Claim Of Killing 50,000 ISIS Terrorists ‘Fairytale’: Ex Diplomat
The US government’s claim of killing thousands of terrorists in the fight against ISIS is the “stuff of fairy tales” and far removed from reality, according to former American diplomat, J. Michael Springmann. Springmann, who had been a high-ranking US diplomat in Saudi Arabia, made his remarks after a senior American military official said that the US-led coalition conducting airstrikes in Iraq and Syria had killed terrorists in the two countries since 2014. Press TV reports: The latest assessment by the unidentified official even exceeded the 45,000 estimate announced in August by Lieutenant General Sean MacFarland, who commands the so-called coalition forces. The Pentagon has yet to specify how it has arrived at such assessments. This “is stuff of fairy tales,” Springmann said. “It is pure American military nonsense.” “The American military has been playing games with numbers of enemy soldiers or civilians killed for three quarters of a century,” he said. Noting that such practices dated back to the Second World War and continued through the Vietnam War, Springmann argued that the statistics provided by the US government are fabricated and differ from reality. “How do they know? What figures do they put forward? What proof do they have? [...]
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