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
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 reporting that there were civilian casualties on march 22nd, 23rd. what more do you knw about multiple incidents now? well, there may well be, that is you put your finger on it. this is the problem that investigators are already struggling with and have been looking for several days. the allegations of all of this when they started emerging on the ground over the last several days pointed to a range of days between march 16th and march 23rd where people on the ground were indicating that there had been bombings, there had been fighting and there had been a significant number of civilian casualties. so that s between march 16th and march 23rd. just over the last week or so.
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 there s so many conflicting reports, and the u.s. doesn t 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 they ve been able to
that they ve 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. so, now they will conduct a formal assessment. they will look at all of the data they have, they will look at the allegations, they will try and figure out what exactly did happen, were civilians killed, how did this happen? one of the theories may well be, we are told, that isis took civilians, held them as human shields, human hostages in buildings it knew might be struck by the coalition. so the u.s. military has a view already that if there was a city, isis, people need to remember, i think it s a fair point, isis has conducted many human atrocities, murders, human shields, taking people hostage
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 ill canned a significant large number of, perhaps, perhaps hundreds of civilians. the 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 number of civilian casualties due to bombings in west mosul, where there is very tough fighting against isis. the picture has been pretty murky, because there s so many conflicting reports, and the u.s. doesn t 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