Nov 21, 2015

U.S. TV uses Russian airstrike footage to claim U.S. hits on ISIS oil trucks

A still from a Russian Ministry of Defense video showing airstrikes against ISIS oil trucks in Syria.

[…] I have found no video of U.S. hits on Islamic State oil tanker assemblies.

The U.S. PBS NewsHour did not find any either.

In their TV report yesterday about Islamic State financing and the claimed U.S. hits on oil trucks they used the videos Russia provided without revealing the source. You can see the Russian videos played within an interview with a U.S. military spokesperson at 2:22 min [see below].

The U.S. military spokesperson speaks on camera about U.S. airforce hits against the Islamic State. The video cuts to footage taken by Russian airplanes hitting oil tanks and then trucks. The voice-over while showing the Russian video with the Russians blowing up trucks says: “For the first time the U.S. is attacking oil delivery trucks.” The video then cuts back to the U.S. military spokesperson.

At no point is the Russian campaign mentioned or the source of the footage revealed.

Any average viewer of the PBS report will assume that the black and white explosions of oil trucks and tanks are from of U.S. airstrikes filmed by U.S. air force planes.

The U.S. military itself admitted that its strikes on IS oil infrastructure over the last year were “minimally effective”. One wonders then how effective the claimed strike against 116 trucks really was. But unless we have U.S. video of such strikes and not copies of Russian strike video fraudulently passed off as U.S. strikes we will not know if those strikes happened at all. […]

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‘GAME OVER’ (9) | Musical Matters...

Nov 25, 2015 11:54 PM

[…] our proudly free and structurally pro-US state-corporate media system. (A system within which, as has just been hilariously revealed, American TV will happily use Russian airstrike footage as if it showed US attacks on ISIS oil […]

not fooled

Nov 23, 2015 8:51 AM

Isis is funded by the us via the CIA. FUCK THE CIA

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Nov 22, 2015 2:31 PM

[…] Bron: U.S. TV uses Russian airstrike footage to claim U.S. hits on ISIS oil trucks […]

Nov 22, 2015 1:41 PM

[…] to be unthinkable within our proudly free state-corporate media system. (A system within which, as has just been hilariously revealed, American TV happily uses Russian airstrike footage to show US hits on ISIS oil […]

jefe Anson

Nov 22, 2015 1:43 AM

It seems as though the u.s. isnt striking isis but needs to convince the public they are. They dont have actual footage of any strikes because obviously they dont actually want to strike isis, maybe this is why they were so butt hurt when Russia went in to do actual air strikes.

Evgeny

Nov 21, 2015 10:03 PM

see 2:29. It is Russian video! border frame have letters “П” and “Ц” and ‘Ч”

Mick McNulty

Nov 21, 2015 9:07 PM

False claims of seeing military action is called Stolen Valor by the Americans. In 2005 George W. Bush introduced the Stolen Valor Act, but as a rogue nation not even their own laws stop America anymore, let alone international ones.