Breaking: US airstrike kills 2 Serbian embassy staffers

F-15E Fighter Bomber

Breaking: U.S. airstrikes may have killed two Serbian embassy staffers, Sladjana Stankovic, a communications official,and his driver, Jovica Stepic, on Friday. Serbian foreign minister Ivaca Dacic reported the news Saturday.

The men were captured in November when their convoy came under fire near Sabratha, Libya. 

Dacic spoke at a news conference in Belgrade, Serbia and the information regarding the deaths have not yet been confirmed by the Libyan government. But Dacic said they have photographic evidence that this indeed is the case.

F-15E fighter bombers struck an ISIS training camp near the Tunisian border killing dozens of scumcrumpets, one of whom was likely an IS operative considered responsible for the deadly attacks in Tunisia in 2015.

According to Dacic, Serbia knew the location of the hostages and tried to get them back, possibly through a military operation. They had information that it was a group associated with ISIS that was demanding ransom for the men, and it was this site that was bombed.

"I believe we had been close to the solution for them to be freed," Dacic said. "Unfortunately, as a consequence of the attack against ISIS in Libya, the two of them lost their lives. We will seek official explanation from both Libya and the United States about the available facts and the selection of targets."

The U.S. has said that it was an ISIS training camp that was bombed and Dacic said that this information needs to be checked. "It wasn't in the interests of the people who held them to kill them, because there were no other demands but financial," Dacic added.

Perhaps ISIS was planning to use the ransom to buy food and medicine for the injured townsfolk, but I think not, However, it is sad that two people, aka 'collateral damage' were killed.

The United States and Israel take incredible pains, often to the danger that it places upon themselves, to avoid killing non-combatants. But our rules of engagement are ridiculously rigid. 

In Afghanistan, for example, we have to wait to be attacked first before we can engage the enemy. Imagine if a professional boxer had to wait to get hit before he could strike back.

It's horrible that this happened, but death is the inevitability of war. Death of the innocent is sadly part of that equation. If we continue fighting a war where we give ourselves rules that our adversaries refuse to comply with, we are never going to win it.

Knowing the enemy and what motivates them. 

I am convinced that we can defeat ISIS within weeks, months at worst case. In spite of the fact that ISIS is only part of the Islamic jihad problem, this needs to be done with shock and awe.



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