During the 1991 Persian Gulf War, two Tomahawk cruise missiles slammed into the hulking power complex here, leaving dumpster-sized transformers crumpled like balls of tissue paper. The strike crippled Iraq’s largest source of electricity, cutting off almost 10% of the country’s power supply
May 2, 1999 — A NATO airstrike blew a civilian bus in half Saturday afternoon on a bridge in this Kosovo village, killing at least 24 people
The US and Nato were already facing scrutiny over mounting civilian casualties in a bombing campaign conducted without UN authorization and fiercely opposed by China and Russia. They had now attacked a symbol of Chinese sovereignty in the heart of the Balkans.
According to the New York Times (5/16/11), Gen. Sir David Richards, “Britain’s top military commander,” is proposing that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) target Libyan “infrastructure,” including electrical power grids and fuel dumps, in government held areas.
NATO deliberately destroyed Libya's water infrastructure
No one knows with certainty how many people have been killed and wounded in Iraq since the 2003 United States invasion. However, we know that between 184,382 and 207,156 civilians have died from direct war related violence caused by the U.S.,
The list could go on for days . . .
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