{"id":14839,"date":"2012-10-13T20:10:08","date_gmt":"2012-10-14T00:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=14839"},"modified":"2012-10-13T20:10:08","modified_gmt":"2012-10-14T00:10:08","slug":"americas-deadly-double-tap-drone-attacks-are-killing-49-people-for-every-known-terrorist-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2012\/10\/americas-deadly-double-tap-drone-attacks-are-killing-49-people-for-every-known-terrorist-in-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s deadly double tap drone attacks are &#8216;killing 49 people for every known terrorist in Pakistan&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14840\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14840\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/article-2208307-1532d006000005dc-661_964x698.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14840\" title=\"article-2208307-1532D006000005DC-661_964x698\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/article-2208307-1532d006000005dc-661_964x698.jpg?resize=490%2C354\" height=\"354\" width=\"490\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14840\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click for a larger version of this image.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color:#000000\">Study found war against violent Islamists has become increasingly deadly<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color:#000000\">Researchers blame common tactic now being used \u2013 the &#8216;double-tap&#8217; strike<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color:#000000\">Drone strikes condemned for their ineffectiveness in targeting militants<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Just one in 50 victims of America\u2019s deadly drone strikes in Pakistan are terrorists \u2013 while the rest are innocent civilians, a new report claimed today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"> The authoritative joint study, by Stanford and New York Universities, concludes that men, women and children are being terrorised by the operations \u201924 hours-a-day\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"> And the authors lay much of the blame on the use of the \u2018double-tap\u2019 strike where a drone fires one missile \u2013 and then a second as rescuers try to drag victims from the rubble. One aid agency said they had a six-hour delay before going to the scene.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"> The tactic has cast such a shadow of fear over strike zones that people often wait for hours before daring to visit the scene of an attack. Investigators also discovered that communities living in fear of the drones were suffering severe stress and related illnesses. Many parents had taken their children out of school because they were so afraid of a missile-strike.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Today campaigners savaged the use of drones, claiming that they were destroying a way of life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"> Clive Stafford Smith, director of the charity Reprieve which helped interview people for the report, said: \u2018This shows that drone strikes go much further than simply killing innocent civilians. An entire region is being terrorised by the constant threat of death from the skies. \u2018<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"> There have been at least 345 strikes in Pakistan\u2019s tribal areas near the border with Afghanistan in the past eight years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">&#8216;These strikes are becoming much more common,&#8217; Mirza Shahzad Akbar, a Pakistani lawyer who represents victims of drone strikes, told The Independent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"> &#8216;In the past it used to be a one-off, every now and then. Now almost every other attack is a double tap. There is no justification for it.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"> The study is the product of nine months&#8217; research and more than 130 interviews, it is one of the most exhaustive attempts by academics to understand \u2013 and evaluate \u2013 Washington&#8217;s drone wars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Despite assurances the attacks are &#8216;surgical&#8217;, researchers found barely two per cent of their victims are known militants and that the idea that the strikes make the world a safer place for the U.S. is &#8216;ambiguous at best&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"> Researchers added that traumatic effects of the strikes go far beyond fatalities, psychologically battering a population which lives under the daily threat of annihilation from the air, and ruining the local economy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"> They conclude by calling on Washington completely to reassess its drone-strike programme or risk alienating the very people they hope to win over.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000\"> They also observe that the strikes set worrying precedents for extra-judicial killings at a time when many nations are building up their unmanned weapon arsenals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"> The Obama administration is unlikely to heed their demands given the zeal with which America has expanded its drone programme over the past two years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"> Washington says the drone program is vital to combating militants that threaten the U.S. and who use Pakistan&#8217;s tribal regions as a safe haven.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"> The number of attacks have fallen since a Nato strike in 2011 killed 24 Pakistani soldiers and strained U.S.-Pakistan relations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"> Pakistan wants the drone strikes stopped &#8211; or it wants to control the drones directly &#8211; something the U.S. refuses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"> Reapers and Predators are now active over the skies of Somalia and Yemen as well as Pakistan and &#8211; less covertly &#8211; Afghanistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"> But campaigners like Mr Akbar hope the Stanford\/New York University research may start to make an impact on the American public.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"> &#8216;It&#8217;s an important piece of work,&#8217; he told The Independent. &#8216;No one in the U.S. wants to listen to a Pakistani lawyer saying these strikes are wrong. But they might listen to American academics.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"> Today, Pakistani intelligence officials revealed a pair of missiles fired from an unmanned American spy aircraft slammed into a militant hideout in northwestern Pakistan last night.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"> The two officials said missiles from the drone aircraft hit the village of Dawar Musaki in the North Waziristan region, which borders Afghanistan to the west.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"> Some of the dead were believed to be foreign fighters but the officials did not know how many or where they were from.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"> The Monday strike was the second in three days. On Saturday a U.S. drone fired two missiles at a vehicle in northwest Pakistan, killing four suspected militants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"> That attack took place in the village of Mohammed Khel, also in North Waziristan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"> North Waziristan is the last tribal region in which the Pakistan military has not launched an operation against militants, although the U.S. has been continually pushing for such a move.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"> The Pakistanis contend that their military is already overstretched fighting operations in other areas but many in the U.S. believe they are reluctant to carry out an operation because of their longstanding ties to some of the militants operating there such as the Haqqani network.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2208307\/Americas-deadly-double-tap-drone-attacks-killing-49-people-known-terrorist-Pakistan.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff\">Fuente<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Study found war against violent Islamists has become increasingly deadly Researchers blame common tactic now being used \u2013 the &#8216;double-tap&#8217; strike Drone strikes condemned for..<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[166,21,189,97,119],"tags":[197,226,258],"class_list":["post-14839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","category-international","category-us-military","category-us-news","category-war","tag-imperialism","tag-imperialist-war","tag-pakistan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenix.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/article-2208307-1532D006000005DC-661_964x698_14839_ba2b2.jpg?fit=964%2C698&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}