It Is Now Common Knowledge That US Drones Bomb Civilian Rescuers

[cali]

A U.S. drone strike killed at least 17 people in Pakistan's tribal region on Wednesday, Reuters reports.

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Last year a study by the NYU School of Law and Stanford Law School detailed American use of the double tap, providing first-hand accounts of its devastating effect on rescuers and humanitarian workers.

In 2007 the FBI said the tactic as commonly used by terrorist organizations such as Hamas.

Last June the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings Christof Heyns said he considers the secondary strikes tactic to be "war crimes."

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/us-drones-bomb-civilian-rescuers-2013-7#ixzz2Y0EKUYS5

[cali]

1. Can you spell W-A-R C-R-I-M-E?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

2. How long until the usual "sincerely regret" and "an investigation will be conducted"?

[cali]

6. a little late for that. As Cali Dem so helpfully points out

this has been known for a while now.

[Cali_Democrat]

3. We've known this for quite some time

Article from Feb 2012:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/06/world/asia/us-drone-strikes-are-said-to-target-rescuers.html?_r=2&

[cali]

5. yes we have. do you agree that it's a war crime?

[Cali_Democrat]

8. Yup. n/t

[cali]

9. Thank you for the response. n/t

[Bonhomme Richard]

4. Cali, you must get a kick out of poking the skunk......

and I thank you for it.
Incoming!

[cali]

7. Let's just say that I'm troubled that the U.S. is committing

war crimes and bugged that so many DUers are blase about it or defend it or ignore it all together.

[rhett o rick]

10. And it's becoming normalized. nm