Enemy is using the media to mislead on civilian casualties in war against ISIS

Stephen Townsend:
Reports of Civilian Casualties in the War Against ISIS Are Vastly Inflated

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Out of the 270 allegations obtained from Airwars that have been assessed thus far, 258 have been assessed as non-credible. Of those, 119 were assessed as non-credible because the Coalition did not conduct a strike near the area of the allegation. Another 60 of those allegations were so vague in regard to the date and location of the alleged casualties that they were impossible to assess. The remaining 79 allegations were found to be non-credible due to lack of sufficient evidence or are still being assessed.

To date, based on data collected between August 2014 and July 2017, the Coalition conducted a total of 24,160 strikes that included 51,038 separate engagements.

The percentage of all Coalition engagements that resulted in a report of possible civilian casualties is 2.29 percent. The percentage of engagements that resulted in a credible report of civilian casualties was 0.32 percent.
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It has been an enemy tactic from the beginning of the War on Terror to inflate civilian casualties.  They would make bogus claims of bombings of wedding parties as well as the nonexistent attacks mentioned here.  The purpose of these bogus claims is to try to influence US aircraft to not attack enemy positions.

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