common dreams that organ is a terrific story about that to sever so some
investigations into
were called double tap strikes now this is what we do with our drones
a double tap is when we hit a certain target and i won
respuesta responders come in rescuers come in to help the people who have been
hurt
or killed we had the media now as you're going to find out a little bit later in
the story that is a significant war crime
so then we actually do this well the Bureau of Investigative Journalism in
that look into this in Pakistan's tribal areas
said that yes the Central Intelligence Agency I'm did
not only do it earlier between 2009 and 2011
is widely acknowledged but they they revive the program
in 2012 which is not been widely knowledge until now
now they said the revived it partly to head
at top a okay to figure yaaaaa Libby
and that he was in fact killed by a CIA drone strike in June 4th 2012
now let's look into how they did that so unique sense
the weather was the right way to conduct our fair city
for small let's go back to the Bureau
up found out about our previous
set of double taps and the report this and The Sunday Times
if I never dis above 11 attacks on rescuers
so-called double tap strikes in Pakistan's tribal areas between 2009
and 2011 along with drone strikes
deliberately targeting a funeral causing mass casualties
now these response to and by
June no sorry July Nov 2011 saw okay look
we had a couple funerals a buncha times
we had people when they were going to rescue
folks but that was ancient history that was all the way back in 2011
when I do that anymore well except for the fact that it turns out they are
international media including BBC CNN
and and news agency AAFP variously reported the rescuers had been targeted
on five occasions between May 24th
and July 23rd ok 2012 with a mosque
and prayers for the dead also reportedly barred
remember where the good guys
so first responders get bombed double taps by the way if you don't know is a
classic move
over al Qaeda terrorists first car blows up people go to respond
help the people who have been injured the second car blows up
that's a form of a double tap and one that we consistently
and furiously denounce how dare the the savages
that terrorists okay a
Mushtaq use of sin is a very respected reporter in Pakistan
NBC and local paper The News you some repeatedly for their reports there
the bureau Commission him to do this report and he came way with some hot
interesting notes personal his findings indicate that five double tap strikes
did indeed take place again in mid 2012
I wanna which also struck a mosque in total fifty three people were killed in
these attacks
with 57 injured the report suggests now
on two other occasions that had been reported he went and found out that
in fact the double taps had not happened and
he had trouble confirming how many civilians if any civilians
were killed that in fact in the double tap we might have had
insurgents again but the problem is the United States government says
anyone who is a military aged male
that we have killed is by definition is surgeon
all s proven otherwise after they're already dead
and this reporter had trouble proving
or disproving there were civilians there were coming in to respond but so he's
obviously very fair and objective about this and he's looking at it from all
sides
%uh but he's not only looking into it the legal charity reprieve
also look into these double taps and the
they thought that there was the possibility of significant civilian
deaths in a July 23rd attack
and on our July 6 attack in 2012
so other five double tap that definitely happen in that 2012 period
%uh he let me some ice on the bureau's findings
the beer spill research finds that as widely reported the time
on May 24th 2012 a CIA controlled armed drone
hit a mosque in a bit you in the village %uh a su ko
in North Waziristan killing some worshippers
six for the people were killed in a second row strike shortly afterwards
is a two-part in rescue work according to use of size
sources now you can use apps I couldn't confirm
with absolute certainty the people pray inside the mosque
or the people who were going to rescue the injured
were not insurgents or militants
he couldn't rule with certainty that they were civilians but a mosque was
definitely hit
people who came to help the injured were definitely tell
wit that's a double to Park so here's another is this in June 4 2012
%uh the one where they actually took an owl a beat this is interesting
because they told congressional aids and they showed them
the executive branch did how they kill the Libyan they said that he was alone
now in reality turns out they did multiple strikes
and that's sixteen alleged militants were killed
in a series a missile strikes that they're all militants
okay you might say we have been a number strikes a yellow the top leaders
that would actually seem to be one of the cleaners drone strikes but why hide
it from
the congressional leadership and the congressional is that saw the video
while we show them
one part the video and not other part with other sixty people died
so that's an interesting question then we go to July 6th 2012
there was as usual a drone strike and then as they explain
after waiting 30 minutes rescue workers began
CIA drones and then returned killing 12 others including three brothers
legal charity reprieve reports I witnesses as identifying
eight civilians killed in that attack
the people on the ground no that we do double taps
they know that if you dare to go and help the injured before they die
that you'll get killed yourself so they will be 30 minutes
as people arriving around on the ground now you might not have sympathy for some
of those people
because some of them might be multiples but you really have no sympathy
for their civilians according to this organization
that are rushing in well they're not even rushing and they had to watch them
sit there
and perhaps die or certainly writhe in agony
severely injured for 30 minutes before they came in
and we like %ah we don't care we're gonna hate you anyway
if civilian rescuers are indeed being intentionally targeted
there is no doubt about the law
those strikes are a war crime
Ben Emmerson QC is the US Special Rapporteur on torture
and he told reporters in 2012 that if they want to be rich is
what the Bureau has alleged is that President Obama
says he is taking office has caused 50 civilians
to be killed with follow ups trucks not the original strikes
50 civilians killed involved strikes overall
both the 2009 through 2011 trucks strikes and the 2012 strikes
and that more this 20 civilians have also been attacked in deliver strikes
on funerals and mourners
and finally they say
civilians now rarely appear to take part in rescue operations
well that would be mission accomplished
we don't want anyone rescued we don't want anyone even thinking
up going to help people who have been severely injured
we want them to sit there and %ah and that if you dare
be a first responder and go in there to help them
we will kill you too but remember guys
we're the good guys we wear the white hat
it's okay we're going after the bad guys the terrace
I was of course are civilians or first responders
or people praying in a mosque or people that went to a funeral
remember the bad guys to double taps
except for when we do