Emeritus Prof Christopher May

There is a clear attempt the use the fog of war to deny US culpability for the Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school bombing (which killed many children), with the Tangerine Tyrant claiming it was a miss-fired Iranian missile.... however, nowadays our lack of reliance of 'official' information has led to a clear set of evidence that refutes the US claim & emphasises that it was a US munition that hit the school in Minab.

Looks like a war crime from here!

#Iran #USPol
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/mar/10/iran-minab-school-bombing-shajareh-tayyebeh-primary-what-evidence-us-responsible

Minab school bombing: what evidence is there that the US was responsible?

Trump has blamed Iran for the mass killing at Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school but geolocation, videos, satellite imagery and fragments apparently recovered from the site indicate otherwise

The Guardian
Mar 10 at 6:33amWeb
Show threadFrank Bennett 🇯🇵Mar 10

@ChrisMayLA6 Trump later said the Tomahawk is "generic," and so Iran has 'em too. He's just saying things.

In rhetoric, he's the "I was just standing there, and it broke" president. The "Tommy did it" president. The "dog ate my homework" president. In spirit, he's a heartless monster.

Show threadxs4me2Mar 10

@ChrisMayLA6

It is an actual war crime in an illegal war… the Trump administration needs to be held accountable…

Show threadBaron VonskinnbackMar 10
@ChrisMayLA6 It was basically the first thing they bombed...
Show threadEpistatacadamMar 10
@ChrisMayLA6 You left out that it hit the school twice. The spare Tomahawk was loitering in case one of the attack ones had failed. But the AI saw lots of activity around the school after the first strike so it selected the school for a second attack aimed at killing any survivors and rescuers. The chief exec and other directors of the AI company should be included in the list of War Criminals.
Show threadjipexuMar 10

@epistatacadam @ChrisMayLA6
"Le directeur général et les autres directeurs de la société d'IA devraient être inscrits sur la liste des criminels de guerre."

absolument ils sont complices !

Show threadGerrit 🇪🇺🌍🍉🔻Mar 10

@epistatacadam @ChrisMayLA6

The new Nuremberg defense. The AI made me do it.

Show threadBruno NicolettiMar 10
@epistatacadam @ChrisMayLA6 Do you have a source for any of that?
Show threadEpistatacadamMar 10
@bjn @ChrisMayLA6 news reports said 5 tomahawks were launched. Four targets hit. The school had a double tap. So I assumed that US sailors would not intentionally target parents rescuing their children who survived and initial attack. So I presumed following Heckseths removal of on the extra safety identification stage, that IA made all the decisions. So my source is news reports and statements from the US command.
Show threadBruno NicolettiMar 10
@epistatacadam @ChrisMayLA6 I know there were two strikes, I'm asking if the second one was an autonomous Tomahawk using genAI to make the decision. When attacking military targets it's a common to hit twice. While the war is profoundly wrong ethically and simultaneously being strategically utterly stupid, this really looks like a targeting error than a deliberate choice to blow up children. Possibly the target was selected by GenAI. Regardless, the guilt lies with the people who started it.
Show threadMike AndersonMar 10
@bjn @epistatacadam @ChrisMayLA6 is it common to hit twice? Twice in quick succession I could understand, but with a delay to hit rescuers?
Show threadEmeritus Prof Christopher MayMar 10

@mspcommentary @bjn @epistatacadam

there is some commentary suggesting yes it is...

Show threadEpistatacadamMar 10
@ChrisMayLA6 @mspcommentary @bjn I believe to fail to protect rescuers is by definition a war crime. Red Cross Red Crescent, StAndrews Cross voluntary Aid organisations are all protected explicitly in the Geneva Convention. Thus any military that delays a second munitions without checking for rescuers is by definition careless as to if it hits protected people. Thus the commanders and Soldiers are all war criminals.
So if it's common ICC should call them in.
Show threadJWMar 10
@epistatacadam @ChrisMayLA6
This is the restriction Anthropic put on the use of their AI by the Department of Defence. They didn't believe AI is good enough to make these decisions. Clearly not all AI vendors aren't of the same view.
Show threadHTPC NZMar 10

@ChrisMayLA6 unfortunately who is going to hold pedo in chief and his gang accountable?

In US, Scotus? senate? congresses? democrats? its own citizens.

Internationally, UK & EU & Canada/Aus/NZ?, UN? ICC?.

None. They know this very well and are acting accordingly. Previous US regimes also knew it but they just weren't as psychotic and generally wanted to keep order.

Show threadjipexuMar 10
@ChrisMayLA6 mais rassurons nous ce crime de guerre sera imputé à l'intelligence artificielle ce sera très pratique pour couvrir les responsables primaires de cette ignoble boucherie ...
Show threadEmeritus Prof Christopher MayMar 10

@jipexu

Indeed,I've already seen a couple of mentions of AI targeting - the only problem is that big tech will be very resistant to that narrative & likely to organise against it

Show threadjipexuMar 10
@ChrisMayLA6
Oui hélas !...
Show threadLoxInOzMar 10
@ChrisMayLA6 US has Tommahawk missiles