‘PANDERING TO ISIS’
Hours after the coalition strike, the Pentagon admitted US-led pilots may have hit Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces but said that they “believed they were striking a Daesh (IS) fighting position”.
It said coalition forces “would not intentionally strike a known Syrian military unit.”
Russia said it was “deeply concerned,” warning that Washington would have to reign in rebels fighting Assad “otherwise, the realisation of Russia-US agreements ... could be put in danger.” “The actions of the pilots — if they, as we hope, were not taken on orders from Washington — fall between criminal negligence and direct pandering to IS terrorists,” it said.
An emergency UN Security Council meeting called by Moscow to discuss the attack ended early on Saturday after an exchange between the US and Russia reminiscent of Cold War-era verbal jousting.
US ambassador Samantha Power said Moscow’s request for the meeting was a “stunt”, while her Russian counterpart Vitaly Churkin accused the US of violating agreements that it would not target army positions.
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