Seriously tonight. A short time ago, the u. S. Central command, the coalition, announced it is opening a formal assessment into whether on march 17th, in west mosul, it may have dropped bombs that killed a significant large number, perhaps, perhaps hundreds of civilians. So issue right now, nobody knows exactly what happened. All of this began to emerge over the last couple of days as Social Media Activists in the area began to report large numbers of Civilian Casualties due to bombings in west mosul where there is very tough fighting against isis. The picture has been pretty murky because theres so many conflicting reports, and the u. S. Doesnt have anybody on the ground there that can put eyeballs on the situation and really verify it. But the pentagon, the coalition today, a short time ago, said that theyve been able to
determine that, yes, they did conduct the air strikes in one of these areas where the allegations have emerged from on march 17th. Iraqi officials on the ground are
city where you have to pinpoint the target. either by grid coordinates where you re saying this is the location on the map, hit this target, or you re doing what s called laser spotting, where you actually do a laser point to the building and the weapon actually fires to that laser spot on the building. and then you don t know really sometimes if there are iraqi fighters on top of lthe buildin. i ve seen this multiple times with al qaeda, they ll be on top of the building and put a lot of civilians inside the building so if they get hit, the fighters get hit, they can use the damage and the killing of the innocent civilians as a messaging and propaganda tool. you can see, there are all sorts of things that can happen in this kind of tough fight. oh, by the way, the enemy is not wearing uniforms so as the iraqi security forces go in with their special forces advisers, with aircraft dropping weapons, sometimes from 5,000 feet and above, all of those things are tough, and you re dropping