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He juxtaposes images of jets, bombs, oil derricks, gas pumps, soldiers and other signifiers of wealth and war.
To the development and popularization of barrel bombs — oil drums packed with shrapnel and explosives, dropped indiscriminately from aircraft to kill and maim as many civilians as possible.
Assad's opponents have long accused the government of using such bombs – oil drums packed with explosives – to cause indiscriminate damage in rebel-held areas, which Damascus denies.
But the regime of Bashar al-Assad has made a systematic march across the moral boundaries of war: targeting schools during school hours, making use of what are believed to be chemical weapons against civilians, dropping barrel bombs (oil drums filled with TNT, oil and chunks of metal) from helicopters to destroy neighborhoods.
In the Fox Business interview, Trump promised that "we're not going into Syria," but he also made clear that he's willing to take action when fellow world leaders use "horrible, horrible chemical weapons". Trump expressed alarm at the Syrian regime's use of barrel bombs, oil drums packed with explosives and nails or other shrapnel that are rolled out of helicopters.
News came in that the helicopter had dropped two barrel bombs — oil drums filled with TNT that can level buildings — on nearby towns.
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Sudan has bombed oil facilities inside South Sudan.
Bombing oil refineries would trigger ecological disaster.
Leftist rebels, who have often bombed oil pipelines, have not been ruled out.
Both the Americans and the Russians, however, concluded that bombing oil installations was, by itself, not enough.
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