Partners in Terror
"A few days after #CharlieHebdo I came upon this headline at the McClatchy Washington bureau website: “U.S. airstrike in Syria may have killed 50 civilians.”
The story reports: “The civilians were being held in a makeshift jail
in the town of Al Bab, close to the Turkish border, when the aircraft
struck on the evening of Dec. 28, the witnesses said. The building,
called the Al Saraya, a government center, was leveled in the airstrike.
It was days before civil defense workers could dig out the victims’
bodies.”
The building, in fact, had been turned into a jail by
Islamic State police. It contained guards and between 35 and more than
50 prisoners, according to different witnesses’ accounts. The prisoners
“had been jailed shortly before the airstrike for minor infractions of
the Islamic State’s harsh interpretation of Islamic law, such as
smoking, wearing jeans or appearing too late for the afternoon prayer.”
IS arrested them. We killed them. Partners in terror."
