Weekday News Wrap: Thursday, August 1, 2013

01 Aug Weekday News Wrap: Thursday, August 1, 2013

01.08.13 | 2 Comments

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism has found fresh evidence of “double-tap” strikes by the US in Pakistan; a double-tap is a second drone strike that deliberately targets rescuers at the scene of a previous drone strike.
Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangarai has labeled results of the recent presidential election which he lost a “sham” and has accused his opponent, President Robert Mugabe, of rigging the elections.
UN officials have said that its experts would go to Syria as soon as possible to investigate three clashes in which chemical weapons are suspected of having been used.
US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden has left the Moscow airport where he had been staying since June after being granted temporary asylum.
The NSA’s XKeyscore program–with the ability to monitor any move a user makes on the internet–reportedly has servers the world over, including in places one wouldn’t necessarily expect: China, Russia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Sudan.

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M. Gross

Good Lord the BIJ piece is a complete waste of time. There’s not even the least bit of evidence that follow-up attacks are aimed at killing civilian rescuers (and only civilian rescuers) which are the only way they could be war crimes.