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Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...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 Mastercomputer79Well 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 voters50Huh. So, exactly what the critics said and the opposite of what the amateurs and quacks said. FDT. FPH. FGOP.
Bad Horse43Of *course* Palantir is at the center of this. Of course.
poweza.bsky.social29Fire or impeach Hegseth. He is incompetent.
Mister Clear Skies27Someone 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.
RadiantHostility (he/him)23I'm pretty sure they just killed 123 children on purpose.
Max Kennerly278Lot of issues here but one part that sticks out in light of the almost-attacked-a-Chinese-ship story today: people with very important jobs where lives are at stake have bought the hype and outsourced their whole brains to AI. We're going to see more and more of this. www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
Trip Kirkpatrick49Yes 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."
Aparna Nair31The things that critics of "AI" have been pointing out for years repeatedly keep happening but we're the ones who are hysterical technophobes, luddites and haters of progress and our forthcoming techno-utopia
EL BARTO ANTI-WORK22I'm just some asshole and have no idea what the veracity of this information really is but I do know that if I was responsible for killing 123 children, I would also say that it was the computer's fault.
Curb Your Malthusiasm21even this is too kind, it’s always “bumbling empire” series of mistakes. Not that the US likes to murder Muslim children. Which it’s done en masse all over West Asia and North Africa
Sam Barlow 🔥20“AI”* killing children. In case things weren’t miserable enough *i.e. the people using “AI”
Jeremiah Oshan16At this point, Hegseth’s impeachment has to be considered the moderate stance.
Dylan Schwilk10Would you ever forgive? This was "beyond negligence". When are the war crimes trials for all involved? ... "Several former senior US military officials now work for Palantir"
Bullwark9We triple tapped an elementary school, dont buy this bullshit that it was a mistake from bad intel
Don’t Post About Crimes7One of the painful parts of reading this was skimming to find what I knew would be there: names of the Gorge local drone companies’ responsible for the imagery in this chain, same ones on the backs of tshirts of people we see sitting at picnic tables next to us at our neighborhood taco truck.
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 Goodman712/ "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 🍁15So 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 ✨53"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 Arthur35It still blows my mind that AI is being used for anything as serious as war
Otto von Biz Markie3"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 #36"...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
AkivaMCohen51LOAC'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 T16Doesn’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...
