this is so amazingly painful

[Karl]

http://www.businessinsider.com/us-drone-...an-2012-12

Known as the "double tap," the tactic involves bombing a target multiple times in relatively quick succession, meaning that the second strike often hits first responders.

First part is something that actually happens. It's not a tactic designed to murder first responders.

The principle is 100lb of high-explosive isn't enough to do the job that requires 200lbs of high-explosive. So you fire twice sometimes to make sure they're dead.

Delays are usually because of difference in the tactical employment of supporting assets, or because of inability to co-ordinate before hand because it's an emergency.

And generally they are in quick succession. Meaning less than a minute in almost all cases.

UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings Christof Heyns said that if there are "secondary drone strikes on rescuers who are helping (the injured) after an initial drone attack, those further attacks are a war crime."

If they get hit by the second strike which was engaging a target it wasn't targeting them.

In a situation where non-combatants were in the area weapons would not be given release authority. Most likely the round (in the case of artillery or long range air-assets) is all-ready flying towards the target. Can't call back round after pulling the trigger.

This entire article is spinning words around to make news out of relatively nothing. It uses a common tactic and then implies its entire purpose is something it's not. Then also says if that was why it was happening it's a war crime. It is a war crime, but that is not the purpose of doing it.