U.N. says U.S. strike on Iranian school may have been a war crime
HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
Allied Mastercomputer111Well this is complete bullshit. Can't believe someone published this like there is no one to blame. There was a decision to go to war illegally without Congress declaring war. There was a conscious choice to select targets and gross neglect in that process. Trump and Hegseth are to blame
I hate him & his voters56Huh. So, exactly what the critics said and the opposite of what the amateurs and quacks said. FDT. FPH. FGOP.
Bad Horse55Of *course* Palantir is at the center of this. Of course.
Mister Clear Skies35Someone in the chain of command is responsible for killing those children. “AI” isn’t an excuse. We may not be able to hold the killers responsible today, but we’ll keep trying until we can.
poweza.bsky.social34Fire or impeach Hegseth. He is incompetent.
RadiantHostility (he/him)27I'm pretty sure they just killed 123 children on purpose.
Trip Kirkpatrick99Yes and . . . It's all people. People are responsible for killing these children. And lying about it. And dehumanizing them. And writing a whole report that says it was the fault of putatively non-human factors like "intel" and "A.i."
Brian Finucane54Impressive reporting. Highly recommended. My bottom line remains that those children died because Trump launched an illegal war on a whim—and the “Secretary of War” carried out patently illegal orders to attack Iran. Fixing this problem requires stronger guardrails to prevent wars on a whim.
Wes Burdine44Every one of these fuckers including every palantir employee goes to jail
Lady Luddite (KJ Colt)5Yeah, no shit. But also I’ll look at this later to learn what led to it happening. I remember commenting a while back this was likely something to do with AI being implemented into the military’s plans. If I was a cynical person, I’d think the US was using Iran as a testing ground for it…
RanTLaw5But have you tried AI this month?
nfariousactivities.bsky.social5——————— “Within hours of a Feb. 28 missile attack that hit an Iranian school, some Pentagon personnel knew the US was responsible, according to officials involved in an internal investigation…That probe found what the officials now describe as a cascade of preventable failures.” Thanks 4 the gift!
Indy Auntie4Methinks the fourth estate needs to find out whether Speaker Mike Johnson knew this investigative reporting was in the works when he recessed the House on Wednesday to avoid the Hegseth impeachment vote. In the America I once knew, a presidency would end and people would go to prison for this.
Photography by Alfie Goodrich3I don’t buy it. Someone chose to hit this target. Someone made sure it happened. Someone is now covering that up.
Jennifer Liang3Not to downplay the environmental impact of the AI industry, but AI is killing people right now. We don’t have to wait for some unspecified future to see it.
Joaquin N. Eggshells 🔻3Sounds like a totally irresponsible empire that should not be trusted with any weapons at all! An “international coalition of the willing” should organize a campaign to disarm this rogue state with its military bases all over the world and its illegal wars popping up everywhere
BLOOMBERG: “Flawed intelligence, outdated imagery, overreliance on A.I. contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab… Within hours Pentagon personnel knew 🇺🇸 was responsible…” 😳
AgnesOfTheDogs5I want to know which company's AI was part of this kill chain.
Lady Liberty1The United States military invaded Venezuela and kidnapped its President in a stealth operation but the same military made an “oopsie” and bombed an Iranian girls school? Twice? Nah. They want a twist-and-turn pathway of excuses that lead to no one in particular… 👉🏼 because it was war crime.
Literary Girl1Like I said, pull the plug
A UN fact-finding mission concluded that the United States committed the war crime of launching indiscriminate attacks in two strikes on a primary school where at least 156 people were killed, mostly children, and another at a sports complex killing 22. www.yacnews.com/un-investiga...
THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS3Anybody in the chain of command should be handed over to the Hague in 2028.
David2This can surprise no one. cbwrong.blogspot.com/2026/09/amer...
R B2The American military should hanging its head in collective shame.
AJW 🇺🇸🚫🍊1Every U.S. president has committed war crimes.
2imagine11Honestly, whatever the UN does, it means jack shit
Lord JG1Now send Trump to The Hague America.
"Inside Centcom, which conducted the US attack, some personnel relied too much on the artificial intelligence embedded in Maven Smart System, the officials said. Maven, which is made by Palantir..." Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
Ryan Goodman802/ "Some Centcom personnel expected Maven to flag stale information or inconsistencies in the underlying intelligence assembled for potential targets, the officials said. It’s not clear why they had such expectations." www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
raingod1 🍁16So Palantir presumably can be charged with murder. The creators of these computer programs (and that is all AI is) need to be held to account.
Sarah Spain ✨62"an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 schoolchildren" We don't have to speculate about AI killing us in the future, it's already killing kids in the present.* *not removing the accountability of the PEOPLE ordering the bombings
Bruce Arthur43It still blows my mind that AI is being used for anything as serious as war
Otto von Biz Markie5"The strike didn’t result from a single catastrophic decision but an accumulation of smaller ones" you don't say
Posted 23 hrs ago by @roguednc.bsky.social "According to @reuters.com, a U.N. mission says there are reasonable grounds to believe the United States committed war crimes during two strikes in Iran in February Investigators said a U.S. strike hit an elementary school in Minab, killing more than..."
Indie Aut. Stuart Miller (ASM) 📖✍️🤓 Writing book #37"...150 people, including about 120 children, mostly little girls according to Iranian officials, while another strike on a sports facility in Lamerd killed or injured 22 civilians. The U.N. experts said the attacks were indiscriminate and struck civilian sites without enough evidence they were..."
ejcon3.bsky.social2BBC has an excellent investigative report on this issue. Read it and the facts speak for themselves.
SAVE OUR ELECTIONS1He's defund the UN next. He has wanted to for a while. But Hegseth now has a bullseye on his back.
🌑✦✧Landlocked Mermaid🌑✦✧ (She/Her)1Trump is a war criminal and mass-murder and no enforcement is stopping him. He will NEVER stop until he is made to
Orel McKawkholster1Why do people euphemize these atrocities with words like "collateral damage" and "war"? I'll call it exactly what it is....MURDER!
SyimonTemplar😇1The UN must work with ICC to place arrest warrants on Hegseth/Rubio/Trump.
First, that the Minab school was a long-planned target, not a late-breaking targeting decision made based on battlefield information in a developing conflict. And second, as a consequence of that, that the US had essentially unlimited time to verify the validity of the school as a military target
AkivaMCohen54LOAC's rule of distinction is very basic: combatants must aim their weapons at military targets, not at civilians. Knowingly attacking civilians as a primary target (as distinguished from an attack on a military target that is expected to *also* kill civilians) is ALWAYS a war crime
Drew T18Doesn’t really help the case that all of this was preceded by the administration both very loudly yelling & quietly signaling that they were doing away w/ namby-pamby things like civilian impact studies, not striking civilian infrastructure, brown generals, and the concept of war crimes in general.
Stephen Nuñez5There has been discussion about whether the war itself is illegal which maybe masks the point that there was no trigger that forced it on that day. If they spent two more days researching targets & updating their info & *then* launched maybe its still an illegal war but with better targeting info
Bill Horton1We are saying the same thing at the same time. Also, the last post in my short thread is a reminder that Hegseth shut down the office that provided training to prevent these events. bsky.app/profile/mrho...
