US/Israeli Missile Strike on Girls' School was a Double Tap

[georgephillip]

What's your personal understanding of the term terrorism?

Does it include this?

GoogleAI Overview:

"Casualties and Aftermath

• "Death Toll: Iranian state media reported that 165 to 181 people were killed, the vast majority being schoolgirls aged 7 to 12.
• The 'Double-Tap' Tactic: Witnesses and Red Crescent medics reported an initial strike hit the school building, prompting teachers to move surviving students to the prayer hall for safety.
• Second Strike: A second missile reportedly hit the prayer hall area shortly after, killing the sheltering students, their teachers, and parents who had arrived to collect them."

 

[pknopp]

It's only terrorism sadly when others do it.

 

[1srelluc]

Collateral damage from strike on a nearby .mil installation.

 

[d0gbreath]

Collateral damage from strike on a nearby .mil installation.

When they asked McVeigh about the children killed, he said the same thing.

 

[1srelluc]

When they asked McVeigh about the children killed, he said the same thing.

For a left-leaner you don't seem as dull as the rest so I'll try......There was a naval installation close by that was also struck.....While it's a shame it happened it happens in war all the time.

 

[pknopp]

For a left-leaner you don't seem as dull as the rest so I'll try......There was a naval installation close by that was also struck.....While it's a shame it happened it happens in war all the time.

Petey said all of our shots were very precise.

 

[d0gbreath]

For a left-leaner you don't seem as dull as the rest so I'll try......There was a naval installation close by that was also struck.....While it's a shame it happened it happens in war all the time.

Which is a pretty good reason for not attacking another country. Especially one that posed no danger to us. Bibi got trump Epstein tapes from Putin, then we had no choice.

 

[1srelluc]

Which is a pretty good reason for not attacking another country. Especially one that posed no danger to us. Bibi got trump Epstein tapes from Putin, then we had no choice.

Sigh, I guess you are as dull as the rest.

 

[d0gbreath]

Sigh, I guess you are as dull as the rest.

I can't help it.

 

[Captain Creeper]

Iranians, and all carpet merchants, tend to use children as shields. Any collateral damage deaths of children tends to be due to this.

 

[1srelluc]

I can't help it.

Fair enough.

 

[WEATHER53]

School ringed with and embedded with military vehicles and weapons
It’s how cowards go to war. You identify as a fellow coward

 

[SweetTea]

It's only terrorism sadly when others do it.

There is a little thing called intent that comes into play, but, by all means, ignore that.

 

[pknopp]

There is a little thing called intent that comes into play, but, by all means, ignore that.

Petey said our strikes are precise.

 

[Zavulon]

There is a little thing called intent that comes into play, but, by all means, ignore that.

Who said it was not intentional? Some people believe that it was an intentional human sacrifice.

 

[Lesh]

Collateral damage from strike on a nearby .mil installation.

With two missiles hitting the same “off target”?

Is our targeting THAT bad?

 

[WEATHER53]

With two missiles hitting the same “off target”?

Is our targeting THAT bad?

Did not hit it but rather debris from the structure it did hit

 

[georgephillip]

It's only terrorism sadly when others do it.

MLK named it in 1967 and paid with his life a year later:
"My third reason (for speaking against war) moves to an even deeper level of awareness, for it grows out of my experience in the ghettoes of the North over the last three years -- especially the last three summers.

"As I have walked among the desperate, rejected, and angry young men, I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems.

"I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action.

"But they ask -- and rightly so -- what about Vietnam?

"They ask if our own nation wasn't using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted.

"Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today -- my own government...."

MLK, "Beyond Vietnam," 1967

 

[pknopp]

MLK named it in 1967 and paid with his life a year later:
"My third reason (for speaking against war) moves to an even deeper level of awareness, for it grows out of my experience in the ghettoes of the North over the last three years -- especially the last three summers.

"As I have walked among the desperate, rejected, and angry young men, I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems.

"I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action.

"But they ask -- and rightly so -- what about Vietnam?

"They ask if our own nation wasn't using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted.

"Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today -- my own government...."

MLK, "Beyond Vietnam," 1967

To be fair, it has failed for the government.

 

[georgephillip]

Collateral damage from strike on a nearby .mil installation.

Double tap collateral damage seems far fetched unless you see the US as "good guys" from West Asia to Beyond Vietnam.

GoogleAI Overview:

"Reported Evidence of a Double-Tap Tactic

"A 'double-tap' strike is a military tactic where a secondary strike hits the same location shortly after the first to target survivors or rescuers. Witnesses and responders reported the following:

• "Sequential Blasts: Two Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) paramedics told Middle East Eye that the school was hit twice.
• Sheltering Survivors Targeted: After the first explosion, the principal moved students to the prayer hall for protection and called parents to pick them up. A second missile then reportedly struck that specific area, killing those who had gathered there for safety or to rescue their children
• Three Strikes Reported: Minab’s mayor told NBC News that the school was struck three times in total."
  
  
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