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TexasTowelie

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Tue Apr 18, 2017, 04:26 AM Apr 2017

Report: U.S. airstrikes hit Syrian mosque

April 18 (UPI) -- A report released Tuesday said the U.S. bombed a Syrian mosque in an airstrike last month, which the U.S. military had denied.

The Human Rights Watch report on the attack on Omar Ibn al-Khatab Mosqu suggests the U.S. failed to take "all feasible precautions" to avoid civilian casualties.

The U.S. military said it carried out a March 16 airstrike on a building where al-Qaida militants were meeting, not on a mosque next door where activists said 46 civilians were killed in a bombing.

"We did not target any mosques," said U.S. Central Command spokesman Col. John J. Thomas. "What we did target was destroyed. There is a mosque within 50 feet of that building that is still standing."

Read more: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2017/04/18/Report-US-airstrikes-hit-Syrian-mosque/4691492490851/

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Would Trump really care?? Rhiannon12866 Apr 2017 #1

Rhiannon12866

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1. Would Trump really care??
Tue Apr 18, 2017, 05:09 AM
Apr 2017

I remember turning on Letterman's show a few years back and when I saw he had Donald Trump as his guest, I started to change the channel. But I underestimated Dave, he really took Trump to task. It was during the controversy about that Islamic Cultural Center and Mosque being built in New York in the vicinity of the World Trade Center. Trump went on about all his specious reasons why he was opposed to it. But Dave firmly reminded him of how and why this country started.

And I found the video!
Letterman and Donald Trump discuss Islamic Cultural Center

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