{"id":7406,"date":"2012-12-13T14:14:50","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T22:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=7406"},"modified":"2012-12-13T14:14:50","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T22:14:50","slug":"from-businessinsider-com-the-nyu-student-tweeting-every-reported-us-drone-strike-has-revealed-a-disturbing-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/13\/from-businessinsider-com-the-nyu-student-tweeting-every-reported-us-drone-strike-has-revealed-a-disturbing-trend\/","title":{"rendered":"(from BusinessInsider.com)  &#8216;The NYU Student Tweeting Every Reported US Drone Strike Has Revealed A Disturbing Trend&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AN EXCERPT:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0 NYU student Josh Begley is <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dronestream\">tweeting every reported U.S. drone strike<\/a>since 2002, and the feed highlights a disturbing tactic employed by the U.S. that is widely considered a war crime. Known as the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebureauinvestigates.com\/2012\/02\/04\/obama-terror-drones-cia-tactics-in-pakistan-include-targeting-rescuers-and-funerals\/\">double tap<\/a>,&#8221; the tactic involves bombing a target multiple times in relatively quick succession, meaning that the second strike often <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2012\/aug\/20\/us-drones-strikes-target-rescuers-pakistan\">hits first responders<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dtic.mil\/dtic\/tr\/fulltext\/u2\/a494447.pdf\">2007 report <\/a>by the Homeland Security Institute called double taps a &#8220;favorite tactic of Hamas&#8221; and the FBI considers it a tactic employed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/us-and-taliban-bombings-kill-civilians-2012-6\">terrorists<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/us-drone-tweets-reveal-double-tap-plan-2012-12#ixzz2EyMgeab1\">http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/us-drone-tweets-reveal-double-tap-plan-2012-12#ixzz2EyMgeab1<\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"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 &quot;double tap,&quot; the tactic involves bombing a target multiple times in relatively quick succession, meaning that the second strike often hits first responders.   A 2007 report by the Homeland Security Institute called double taps a &quot;favorite tactic of Hamas&quot; and the FBI considers it a tactic employed by terrorists.  Read more: http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/us-drone-tweets-reveal-double-tap-plan-2012-12#ixzz2EyMgeab1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7407\" title=\"drone3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/drone3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/drone3.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/drone3-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AN EXCERPT:\u00a0\u00a0 NYU student Josh Begley is tweeting every reported U.S. drone strikesince 2002, and the feed highlights a disturbing tactic employed by the U.S. that is widely considered a war crime. Known as the &#8220;double tap,&#8221; the tactic involves bombing a target multiple times in relatively quick succession, meaning that the second strike often [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7406"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7410,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7406\/revisions\/7410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}