‘ISIS: War of propaganda as much about bombs and explosions’ – Lawrence Wilkerson

RT: The US says it didn’t carry out strikes in the area where Syrian soldiers were killed. Can you understand people’s suspicions given that US forces repeatedly denied bombing an Afghan hospital before finally admitting it? [‘Doctors Without Borders‘ hospital in Kunduz hit on October 3, 2015 killing 30 people including staff.]

Lawrence Wilkerson: I’d have to say two things right away and one is that everyone exercises their right to what I’d call“propaganda” in this horrible conflict, and second that there are so many forces involved that it would be extremely difficult to instantaneously or near instantaneously to satisfy any source as to whether or not it had been described accurately or not. Who knows what’s happening?

RT: It couldn’t be ISIL that was carrying that out, could it be?

LW: Lots of people could have carried it out. The Turks could have carried it out, the coalition which involves a number of different airplanes; the Russians could have carried it out. Who knows who dropped the bombs and who knows even if the bombs were dropped the way they were being described. This is a war of propaganda as much as it is of iron bombs and explosions.