If you read
the headlines of major corporate media outlets, you’d think
hundreds of Iraqi civilians coincidentally died in the same location
that just so happened to be hit by a US airstrike.
A March 17
US attack in the city of Mosul resulted in a massacre of civilians.
The monitoring group Airwars estimated that between 130 and 230
Iraqis were killed in the incident. Iraqi media reported similar
figures.
Civilian
victims of the US-led bombing campaign to oust ISIS from the major
northern Iraqi city, which has been terrorized by the extremist group
for three years, have received little media coverage.
The
Washington Post (3/28/17) noted, nevertheless, that the recent
airstrike “was potentially one of the worst US-led civilian
bombings in 25 years.”
Yet just a
few days before the Post published this stark fact, leading news
networks went out of their way to craft some of the most euphemistic
headlines imaginable.
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