-Hoo boy. You really can't make this crap up. Or then again, apparently you can — if you're ABC News.
In the past two days, ABC News has aired footage supposedly showing the shocking attack of invading Turkish forces on Syrian Kurds.
On Sunday, ABC News anchor Tom Llamas aired the footage, claiming it showed a fierce Turkish attack on Kurd civilians.
"The situation rapidly spiraling out of control in northern Syria. One week since President Trump ordered U.S. forces out of that region, effectively abandoning America's allies in the fight against [the Islamic State]," he said.
Llamas described the video saying it appeared to show "Turkey's military bombing Kurd civilians in a Syrian border town. The Kurds, who fought alongside the U.S. against ISIS. Now, horrific reports of atrocities committed by Turkish-backed fighters on those very allies."
On Good Morning America the next day, senior foreign correspondent Ian Pannell, who is in Syria, said "This video, obtained by ABC News, appears to show the fury of the Turkish attack on the border town of Tal Abyad."
Tracer bullets, furious explosions in the dark of night...pretty dramatic stuff. And horrific too, if it were actually from Syria.
Except. It's not...
*videos at link*
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