Trump officials scrapped Pentagon blueprint to avoid civilian war casualties before Iran strikes, report says
Source: The Independent
Wednesday 11 March 2026 17:30 EDT
Before the Iran war, the Trump administration reportedly gutted a series of initiatives aimed at reducing civilian casualties, according to insiders.
The move is under new scrutiny now that the U.S. is accused of launching a February 28 missile strike that hit a girls' primary school near a military base and killed scores of people. The attack in the city of Minab left more than 165 people dead, most of them children under 12, according to Iranian officials.
“We’re departing from the rules and norms that we’ve tried to establish as a global community since at least World War II,” Air Force veteran Wes J. Bryant, a member of the Pentagon’s Biden-era Civilian Protection Center of Excellence who was forced out in job cuts last spring, told ProPublica. “There’s zero accountability.”
The U.S. says the strike is under investigation, though President Trump has suggested Iran or “somebody else” might be responsible for the attack, which appeared to use an American Tomahawk missile. Internally, a Pentagon probe reportedly found that outdated U.S. targeting data caused American forces to hit the school.
Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-iran-strike-hegseth-civilian-deaths-b2936723.html
Link to ProPublica REPORT - The U.S. Built a Blueprint to Avoid Civilian War Casualties. Trump Officials Scrapped It.
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Malice aforethought is the sine qua non of murder, a crime for which he and his gang of neoNazis who made this and other deliberate choices must be tried. 😡
