The most grotesque and blatantly illegal aspect of drone killing: Double Tapping [View all]

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Fuck anyone who defends this form of terrorism. And that's just what it is. And anyone who thinks that this isn't fodder for an attack here is fucking brain dead.



The first round of missiles struck a tent in Zowi Sidgi, a village in North Waziristan, at dusk on 6 July 2012. A small group of miners and woodcutters had gathered there for dinner, according to Amnesty International's Mustafa Qadri.

The tent burned. Friends and family members came running to help. A moment later, there was another drone strike. Many of the people who had come to assist their friends and relatives in the tent were also killed.

Altogether 18 people died in the two rounds of drone strikes. One of the victims was a 14-year-old boy. The strikes in Zowi Sidgi fall into a special category of attacks, said Qadri, a lethal operation that includes two phases.

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For these attacks, the US relies on consecutive rounds of strikes - missiles are dropped, killing people. A moment later - when people in the area have raced to the scene to help the wounded, another round of missiles is dropped.
'Particularly shocking'

This practice, known as a "double tap", as journalists have described, is being used more often.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-24557333