US military claim of killing 50,000 terrorists ‘fairytale’: Ex-US diplomat

‘The US government’s claim of killing thousands of terrorists in the fight against Daesh (ISIL) is a “stuff of fairy tales” and far from reality, says a former American diplomat.
J. Michael Springmann, a former high-ranking US diplomat in Saudi Arabia, made the remarks after a senior American military official said that the US-led coalition conducting airstrikes in Iraq and Syria had killed 50,000 Takfiri terrorists in the two countries since 2014.
The latest assessment by the unidentified official even exceeded the 45,000 estimate announced in August by Lieutenant General Sean MacFarland, who commands the so-called coalition forces.
The Pentagon has yet to specify how it has arrived at such assessments. This “is stuff of fairy tales,” Springmann said. “It is pure American military nonsense.”’
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