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Showing Original Post only (View all)New US Drone Strike "Double-Taps" Indicate Possible War Crimes [View all]
"NYU student Josh Begley is tweeting every reported U.S. drone strike since 2002, and the feed highlights a disturbing tactic employed by the U.S. that is widely considered a war crime.
Known as the "double tap," the tactic involves bombing a target multiple times in relatively quick succession, meaning that the second strike often hits first responders.
UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings Christof Heyns said that if there are "secondary drone strikes on rescuers who are helping (the injured) after an initial drone attack, those further attacks are a war crime."
In September the NYU and Stanford law schools released a report detailing how double taps by U.S. drones affect the Pakistani population, and noted that "high-level" militants killed only accounted for 2 percent of U.S. drone strike casualties."
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/us-drone-tweets-reveal-double-tap-plan-2012-12#ixzz2EuyhGpAp
Known as the "double tap," the tactic involves bombing a target multiple times in relatively quick succession, meaning that the second strike often hits first responders.
UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings Christof Heyns said that if there are "secondary drone strikes on rescuers who are helping (the injured) after an initial drone attack, those further attacks are a war crime."
In September the NYU and Stanford law schools released a report detailing how double taps by U.S. drones affect the Pakistani population, and noted that "high-level" militants killed only accounted for 2 percent of U.S. drone strike casualties."
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/us-drone-tweets-reveal-double-tap-plan-2012-12#ixzz2EuyhGpAp
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Bill Foster: I'm the bad guy?
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But didn't you hear? 'They' the citizens of the countries we think we have a right to invade, 'use
sabrina 1
Dec 2012
#36
From the way I understood it, there was substantial lag between the first and second strike.
Victor_c3
Dec 2012
#22
I am very far left economically, but my only real complaints about these things are fiscal. nt
Comrade_McKenzie
Dec 2012
#15
The Allied general theory in WWII held that if you bombed the German civilian populace....
OldDem2012
Dec 2012
#32
Yep...the more you use, the more you have to make, and that means big bucks to the MIC. nt.
OldDem2012
Dec 2012
#49
Killing aid workers and/or civilians who try to help the wounded, is a war crime.
sabrina 1
Dec 2012
#37
You couldn't have told a bigger lie. And now, you're not able to lie at all, at least in this threa
DisgustipatedinCA
Dec 2012
#44
Dropping even a single bomb on women and children is a war crime as far as I'm concerned....
OldDem2012
Dec 2012
#50
firing one missile, waiting 10 minutes for help to arrive, then firing another...
mike_c
Dec 2012
#51
If you think about, the 9-11 attack on the WTC was a classic double-strike....
OldDem2012
Dec 2012
#34
It appears we've learned well from Al Qaida and their own bombing techniques.
bullwinkle428
Dec 2012
#33