The US Gov’t Killed More Civilians This Month Than All Terrorist Attacks in Europe Over the Last 12 Years

Every time a terrorist attack occurs in Europe, it is met with an abundance of media coverage, and each victim is mourned by the public on a grand scale. However, the concern for the loss of innocent life appears to be almost nonexistent when the United States kills more civilians in one month than terrorist attacks in Europe have killed in the last 12 years.

A group monitoring the Syrian conflict reported on Friday that airstrikes launched by the United States-led coalition in Syria have killed 472 civilians from May 23 to June 23.

In the last 30 days, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that the provinces with the largest death tolls were Deir Ezzor with 222 civilian deaths, including 84 children, and Raqqa with 250 civilian deaths, including 53 children. The Observatory also noted that the latest figure is more than double the previous month, which was around 225 civilian deaths.

As The Free Thought Project has reported, the U.S.-led coalition entered the city of Raqqa for the first time on June 6, in the name of driving out the Islamic State. However, the first few days of the offensive resulted in reports of the coalition using a cluster of airstrikes including illegal chemicals such as white phosphorus on a city with a population of around 200,000 people.

While the U.S. claims its purpose is to defeat ISIS, its actions have been questionable. As Americans celebrated Father’s Day on Sunday, the U.S. shot down a Syrian warplane that was targeting the militants. In response, Russia announced that it is halting cooperation with the U.S. and its allies.

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Just before the dramatic increase in airstrikes, a terrorist attack killed 22 people in Manchester, England, on May 22. Not surprisingly, the Islamic State was eager to take responsibility for the attack.

Secretary of Defense James Mattis used the attack to justify the increase on May 28, claiming that the U.S. had “accelerated” the tactics it was using in Iraq and Syria and is now using a policy of “annihilation.”

“Manchester’s tragic loss underscores the purpose of your years of study and training at this elite school. We must never permit murderers to define our time or warp our sense of normal. This is not normal … Our strategy right now is to accelerate the campaign against Isis. It is a threat to all civilized nations. And the bottom line is we are going to move in an accelerated and reinforced manner, throw them on their back foot. We have already shifted from attrition tactics, where we shove them from one position to another in Iraq and Syria, to annihilation tactics where we surround them. Our intention is that the foreign fighters do not survive the fight to return home to North Africa, to Europe, to America, to Asia, to Africa. We’re not going to allow them to do so. We’re going to stop them there and take apart the caliphate.”

The Manchester Attack is just one example of a loss of innocent life that has been exploited by western media and used for political gain. The loss of 22 innocent lives in England was used by the U.S. to justify going on to take nearly 500 innocent lives that have been blatantly ignored by the media.

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Following the Manchester Attack, an attack near London Bridge in June killed eight civilians, bringing the total up to 30 deaths so far in 2017.

In 2016, terrorist attacks in Germany, France and Belgium killed 130 civilians.

In 2015, terrorist attacks in France and Macedonia killed 155 civilians.

In 2011, terrorist attacks in Norway and Belarus killed 92 civilians.

In 2005, a terrorist attack in England killed 52 civilians.

When looking at the last 12 years in Europe, terrorist attacks have taken the lives of 459 civilians. That is still less than the at least 472 civilians that were killed by the U.S. in Syria, just in the last month.

Despite the fact that Americans’ tax dollars are funding the war that has created the sharp increase in civilian deaths, the overwhelming concern that exists among the media and U.S. politicians when it comes to the loss of innocent life in Europe, has been virtually nonexistent when it comes to the loss of innocent life in Syria.

Eyewitnesses Recall Police Shooting American in the Head During London Attacks

An innocent American bystander was reportedly among the victims of a series of attacks in London on Saturday after he was shot in the head—by police.

A total of seven people were killed and 48 injured after multiple suspects in a van mowed down pedestrians on London Bridge, and then went on a stabbing spree in London’s Borough Market.

Fabio Lamas, 20, works at the Wheatsheaf pub in Borough Market. He told NBC News he witnessed three men “carrying knives” and “wearing body armor” walking through the market before police arrived.

“I got people to start evacuating inside from our little garden that we have,” Lamas said, “and got people to come into the bar and to go into toilets, hide under tables and hide in our cellar where we keep all our stock. Then I heard shooting and I saw an American guy get shot in the head.”

The U.S. Embassy has yet to comment on whether any Americans were victims in the attack. However, Lamas noted that the man was at the pub with two friends who said they were American doctors living in London.

“He was bleeding through his eye,” Lamas said. “I went to get the first-aid kit and I started speaking to his friends and to try and calm them down.”

While the suspects in the attack reportedly carried 12-inch knives, as opposed to guns, police fired a volley of bullets, and one of the suspects was shot and killed outside the Wheatsheaf pub, which could account for a stray bullet striking the innocent bystander in the head.

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Police responding to the attacks used an unprecedented number of rounds, with eight officers firing 50 shots, in an attempt to kill the three suspects, according to Mark Rowley, assistant commissioner for specialist operations in the Metropolitan Police Service.

After killing the three suspects on Saturday night, police then went on a raid Sunday, arresting 12 people in Barking, east London. The ages of the detained ranged from 19-60, and 11 of people were arrested in one complex. Rowley claimed the arrests were justified under Britain’s Terrorism Act.

As the Telegraph reported Monday morning, these arrests were made after counter-terrorism officers secretly recorded an alleged Isil-inspired terror cell in Barking last month discussing how to use YouTube to plot a van and knife attack in London. They knew of the attack before it took place and did not stop it.

The investigators were said to be monitoring the terrorist cell weeks before the attack, yet arrests were not made until after the attack. How or why were they allowed to carry out this atrocity when they were being watched and recorded?

In response to the attacks, British Prime Minister Theresa May called for new international agreements to regulate the internet. She claimed that introducing new rules for cyberspace would “deprive the extremists of their safe spaces online.”

The innocent American bystander, who became a victim after police opened a barrage of gunfire on a crowded market, is expected to survive. However, his injury does raise serious questions about the attack that have been ignored by media outlets and politicians alike.

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Over 50 people were killed or injured in London on Saturday—but how many victims were injured by the three suspects, and how many were “collateral damage” after police chose to fire an unprecedented number of bullets into a crowded public area?