French government assassinates six of its own citizens in bombing raid in Syria

[TexasTowelie]

The French state carried out the extra-judicial assassination of at least six of its own citizens in a raid on an Islamic State (IS) militia training camp in Syria last week, blatantly violating the French constitution’s ban on the death penalty.

Last Thursday night at 11 p.m. a group of two French Rafale fighter aircraft descended on an ISIS training camp five kilometers southwest of Raqqa, the capital of the IS-controlled area of Syria. The French youth were allegedly training in the camp alongside over 100 other foreigners. The planes dropped seven 250-kilogram, GPS-guided smart bombs on the camp, in the latest French raid on ISIS training camps since a raid on another camp near Deir Ezzor on 27 September.

The government has not released an estimate for the number of dead and wounded of the hundred or so youth in the camp. The previous raid reportedly killed over 30 youth, including 12 child soldiers. However, a Syrian NGO announced that at least six French citizens had been killed in the latest raid, a figure confirmed yesterday by anonymous French officials, who also confirmed that their raid was consciously designed to kill French citizens.

They told BFM-TV, “We targeted a training camp containing ISIS foreign fighters prepared to come attack us in France. Among them there were French citizens and French speakers.”

Read more: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/10/13/frsy-o13.html

[malaise]

1. So what's new?

Just think French Africa

[oberliner]

2. French citizens who had joined ISIS

Does leaving France and fighting on the side of ISIS in Syria not qualify as mitigating circumstances?

[rjsquirrel]

5. Apparently

they were killed while eating Brie and baguettes and listening to Edith Piaf records.

Fighting for a foreign enemy "state" is kidding your "citizenship" goodbye and, um, cutting off its head.

Who cares?

[NutmegYankee]

3. Citizenship doesn't matter if they have joined a foreign enemy.

For example, there were German-Americans who had left in the 30's to go back to Germany. They joined the Wehrmacht, and we shot them dead.

[rjsquirrel]

4. Six French citizen terrorists, you mean?

Sorry, running off to fight for ISIS means no one has a fuck to give about your "citizenship."


This is a weird post. Citizens assassinated? Terrorists removed, more like.

Good job France.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

6. Sounds like WSWS wants the entire camp spared and is using the 6 traitors as human shields.

[Recursion]

7. Being at an ISIL camp kind of declares you a combatant... (nt)

[SidDithers]

8. wsws. LOL...

I miss Hannah Bell too.

Sid

[stevenleser]

12. Yep, wsws where Socialist countries can do no wrong and non-Socialist countries can do no right.

I think wsws writers should take a nice sojourn down to ISIS occupied territory and educate the ISIS folks on how the world should be.

[TipTok]

9. What is the alternative again?

We can only attack ISIS targets if there are no western foreign fighters?

Play stupid games and win stupid prizes...

[bluedigger]

10. I guess those youth chose poorly.

Terrorism is a high risk occupation.

[randome]

11. They should have elbowed their way into the camp with citizenship revocation papers.

Had them sign and date on the dotted line then leave the way they had come. Then, and only then, could the correct bombing procedure have been carried out.

It's the only rational thing to do. Right?
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Stop looking for heroes. BE one.[/center][/font][hr]

[GGJohn]

13. Lie down with dogs,

you'll attract fleas.
I'm certainly not going to lose any sleep over the deaths of these 6 terrorists, and I doubt the French people will either.

[geek tragedy]

14. Wsws generates more horse manure than the Kentucky Derby.

If someone is in an enemy training camp and that camp gets bombed, that's not an assassination, that's just war.

Stupid jihadis got themselves killed. Good riddance.