After-Strike Photos of Syria Site the US Says It Targeted With 76 Cruise Missiles Show Only Little Damage
There's a big gaping hole in the Pentagon's account of the strikes
I have my doubts about the Russian account of Trump’s strikes where the US foolishly spread out a hundred slow Tomahawks between a dozen targets, but the American story doesn’t make much more sense either.
This is the post-strike satellite image of the main target of the attack, the Barzah Research complex in Damascus:
Pentagon says the complex was targeted by 76 of the 105 cruise missiles they fired and none were intercepted by the enemy.
This is how the complex looked before the strikes:
Three main buildings were #destroyed as a result of the #strike at #Barzah #SSRC Research and Development Center #Damascus #Syria #Syriastrikes @FoxNews pic.twitter.com/roSnz4WVg8
— ImageSat Intl. (@ImageSatIntl) April 14, 2018
Does this look like a site that has been hit by seventy-six 450 kilogram warheads? That would be 34 tons of explosives in total.
The three main buildings, which weren’t particularly huge are leveled, that is it. The rest of the complex is undamaged.
https://twitter.com/reutersanders/status/985524302828187648
So what happened? Did the Syrians/Russians indeed successfuly jam/shoot down a bunch of the missiles? Did the Pentagon exaggerate the number of missiles it actually fired so Trump could say it was a larger attack? Or did the US really send seventy-six 2 million dollar missiles to destroy three abandoned buildings OPCW had last inspected in November, 2017, and not a single one of them strayed?
don´t forget about another 30 tomahawks fired to destroy one warehouse? I could see max 3-4 impacts there. Here in Belgrade we have some buildings hit by Tomahawk, 1-2 are enough to destroy a building, even very large building need no more the 5. How about this version, Russian are right and Syrian PVO has intercepted 71…then it would make more sense. Would be interesting to hear why was necessary to hit few buildings with 76 missiles ….such overkill
military facilities ain’t resedential buildings. It took 42 TLAMs to destroy Zafraniyah Nuclear Fabrication Facility and 23 for the Iraqi Intelligence
Service headquarters
So if the buildings really were chemical facilities how many people would have died. They were not and we knew it. This is brinkmanship and theatre.