Graves of schoolgirls killed by US Tomahawk missiles
I have been reading many accounts of the bombing of the girls’ school in Iran. They all refer to the ‘strike’. None of them mention the second strike, some 40 minutes later, which killed many of the survivors of the first strike and those trying to rescue them.
This second strike is important, because it gives the lie to the explanation that the bombing was a mistake. Even if the first strike was a mistake, the bombers would quickly realize it, and would not repeat the same mistake.
One account claims that they were aiming at a nearby installation; while another account claims that an outdated map showed a military installation on the site; a third account claims that the destruction of the school was just collateral damage from a bomb strike nearby. The picture below shows that this was no collateral damage.
Ruins of the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ elementary school in Minab
None of these explanations satisfy me, especially after Trump tried to lie his way out of it by saying that the Iranians bombed their own school, and when shown evidence that it was an American missile, he claimed that he knew nothing about it. Suuuurre! Of course he knew. The alleged evidence of an outdated map sounds like the product of some backroom sessions trying to come up with an excuse that sounded credible.
The US media have been boasting about how accurate American strikes have been, as evidenced by the precise targeting of the Ayatollah. I somehow believe these boasts, after I saw how precise their calculations had been in Venezuela. The New York Times noted that “a single errant missile wouldn’t have caused such precise and targeted damage to several buildings “. No, the US military didn’t make a mistake.
The only other explanation is that the US knew that they were bombing the school – twice. Why would they do that? They haven’t told us, so there must be some secret. One theory, which I haven’t heard anywhere and just invented myself, is that there was actually some important person hiding in (or under?) the school. That person must have been so important that, even now, the US military refuses to mention any high-ranking figure in connection with the school. Has anyone asked whether there were tunnels beneath the school?
Whatever the true explanation (which Trump is hiding), this massacre will go down as one of the most despicable acts of savagery in American history, and history will hold Trump accountable for this evil murder.