Russia Is Bombing Ambulances in Syria

[Blue_Tires]

Dr. Ammar Martini has a simple question he would like answered: “Why are the Russians bombing my hospitals and ambulances?”

One of the cofounders of Orient Humanitarian Relief, a nonprofit that provides medical treatment and educational services in northern and central Syria, Martini was recounting to The Daily Beast how Russian airstrikes in the Idlib countryside Saturday destroyed a part of his emergency ambulance center. “They destroyed four or five of our vehicles,” he said. “These attacks were specifically targeting Orient.”

Below is a video Oubai Shahbandar, a former Pentagon officials turned Orient employee, shared with The Daily Beast, showing the charred vehicles. “If the Russians think ambulances are legitimate terrorist targets,” Shahbandar emailed, “imagine what they’re going to do to the rest of Syria.”
On the same day the U.S. struck a hospital in Afghanistan, Putin’s pilots struck medical facilities and vehicles nowhere near ISIS.

It’s been a dark week for medical volunteers, all around. A Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, was struck repeatedly on Saturday by U.S. warplanes. Nineteen were killed, the majority of them hospital workers. Colonel Brian Tribus, the U.S. military spokesman in Afghanistan, said that any powdered medical facilities constituted “collateral damage” against legitimate Taliban targets threatening U.S. forces in the area. Doctors Without Borders countered that there were no militants in or around its facility, and accused the American military of a “war crime.” That isn’t clear, at this point. But what is apparent is that the Kunduz hospital attack is a major violation of the standards U.S. forces have set for themselves. A military investigation is underway, and the Pentagon has now retracted its initial claim that American soldiers were under threat.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/10/06/why-are-the-russians-bombing-my-ambulances.html


I'll just leave this here....

[HereSince1628]

1. We must hate the Russians, so please we need much more cowbell.

[n2doc]

2. Anything you can do, I can do better,

I can do anything better than you....

Just waiting for the next war crime. It is ISIL's turn, I think.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

3. Copycats. nt

[malaise]

4. Still looking for your thread on the bombing of the

Doctors' without Borders hospital...not holding my breath.

[4139]

5. One of the engines was removed from the vehicle???

Likely old video

[Fumesucker]

6. Some of us pay taxes in America and (involuntarily) support the American war effort

Which kind of makes us feel more responsible for and especially horrified by American instigated horrors than for ones committed by a nation we have never so much as set foot in.

[bemildred]

7. This is pretty feeble propaganda.

There don't appear to be any dead people.

And:

Below is a video Oubai Shahbandar, a former Pentagon officials turned Orient employee, shared with The Daily Beast, showing the charred vehicles.“

It's a little bit too easy to figure out where it came from and why we are being shown it too.

I auppose they are too spooked by the internet transparency movement to outright lie, they keep getting exposed immediately, so we get things like:

“The bomb struck in the village just a few hundred yards from the actual border, wounding several townspeople, local residents said. The Doctors Without Borders hospital apparently was not damaged.”

[oberliner]

8. Wow - every response to this post is Russia-friendly

Fascinating.

[4139]

9. Watch the video and stop on the shot up vehicle, not only has the engine been removed

... You'll yes that it had been jacked up and tires placed underneath to hold it up.


It is an old video!

[dixiegrrrrl]

10. I see the responses as being USA cynical, actually.

Esp. the one pointing out the provider of the information was an ex-Pentagon employee.

Our country has lost a GREAT amount of credibility, since Bush and continuing to this day.