{"id":300963,"date":"2017-03-27T20:17:07","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T19:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-massacre-in-mosul\/"},"modified":"2017-03-27T20:17:07","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T19:17:07","slug":"the-massacre-in-mosul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-massacre-in-mosul\/","title":{"rendered":"The massacre in Mosul"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>The massacre in Mosul<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    27 March 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>The US-led \u201ccoalition\u201d has admitted that its forces carried out the March 17 air strike in Mosul\u2014ostensibly against Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) fighters\u2014that slaughtered as many as 200 civilians, including numerous children. The admission was only made in the face of evidence provided by survivors to Iraqi journalists, whose accounts were reported by sections of the Western press.<\/p>\n<p>The massacre is being described as possibly the largest single death toll inflicted by a coalition air strike since the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The grim reality, however, is that very little is known about the impact of the assault on Mosul, which the Iraqi government began last October under pressure from the Obama administration. Coverage of the offensive has been heavily censored and marked by a propaganda-like character. Almost universally, the fighting has been portrayed as a \u201cheroic\u201d battle by Iraqi forces against the \u201cbarbaric\u201d ISIS. Little attention has been given to the fate of hundreds of thousands of civilians trapped inside the besieged city.<\/p>\n<p>News of the March 17 carnage began filtering out as the Trump administration\u2019s Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and representatives of 62 other countries gloated in Washington over the \u201csuccess\u201d of their \u201ccampaign for the lasting defeat of ISIS.\u201d A March 22 statement cynically declared that the \u201cGlobal Coalition\u201d against ISIS underscored \u201cthe need for safeguarding civilians\u201d and applauded \u201cthe Iraqi government for protecting civilians in conflict zones.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> In fact, in February, the Trump administration let it be known it would sharply escalate the onslaught on Mosul in order to end the fighting\u2014regardless of how many innocent lives were claimed. Unnamed US officials&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/03\/27\/pers-m27.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 The massacre in Mosul 27 March 2017 The US-led \u201ccoalition\u201d has admitted that its forces carried out the March 17 air strike in Mosul\u2014ostensibly against Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) fighters\u2014that slaughtered as many as 200 civilians, including numerous children. The admission was only made in the face of evidence provided by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-300963","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}