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Marc Garlasco
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Marc Garlasco
@marcgarlasco
Deputy Director, Civilian Protection Center of Excellence at the Pentagon - Scutsch - Forever DM - tweets are made in my personal capacity.
Washington DC
Joined January 2009
- “When I investigate a site of a potential war crime the first thing I do is locate and identify parts of the weapon. The weapon tells you who did it and how. I’ve never seen such a lack of physical evidence for a weapon at a site. Ever. /1/
- That’s the manufacturer cage code for RaytheonReplying to @samueloakfordA weapon fragment reportedly recovered at the site of a Saudi-led coalition airstrike that killed at least 82 (per MSF) at a detention facility in Saada, #Yemen. Aid agencies and the UN say the facility was used to house migrants. Screenshot from a video released by Houthis.
- Whatever hit the hospital in #Gaza it wasn’t an airstrike. Even the smallest JDAM leaves a 3m crater. Widespread surface damage and total lack of cratering inconsistent with an airstrike.Possible impact crater at the Ahli Hospital in Gaza, roughly 1x1 meter, maybe 30cm deep.
- Replying to @marcgarlasco#Amnestyinternational got this one wrong. I fear their report will endanger Ukrainian civilians. While nothing has stopped #Russia from hitting civilian areas now they have an excuse. A respected human rights org said the targets are there. I fear they will expand 4/
- Replying to @marcgarlascotheir targeting of civilian areas at worst. At best they can claim a defense. Amnesty was wrong on the law. They were wrong on the timing. Ukraine needs to avoid endangering civilians but this report was off target. /END/
- Replying to @marcgarlascoThere’s always a piece of a bomb after the fact. In 20 years of investigating war crimes this is the first time I haven’t seen any weapon remnants. And I’ve worked three wars in Gaza.”
- Replying to @marcgarlascoUkraine can place forces in areas they are defending - especially in #urbanwarfare. There is no requirement to stand shoulder to shoulder in a field - this isn’t the 19th century. Ukraine still has an OBLIGATION to protect civilians - but they are taking steps to do so like 2/
- Replying to @marcgarlascohelping civilians relocate. The info environment is complex but when I train Ukrainian #WarCrimes teams I always tell them they must investigate alleged violations of ALL parties to the conflict. 3/
- I wrote this report. The damage seen at the #Gaza hospital site was not caused by an Israeli SPIKE missile. The impact hole from a spike is mere centimeters in width.Replying to @fsbrgAnd for comparison, see @hrw's 2009 report on drone strikes in Gaza. "The drone-launched missiles detonate above the ground, which creates a narrow, relatively shallow crater from missile parts not involved in fragmentation hitting the ground." 9/x hrw.org/report/2009/06….Readers added contextThe author of this study has publicly disputed the claim made in this post and has. twitter.com/marcgarlasco/s…
- 🧵 #OTD 20 years ago the US targeting community travelled to @20FighterWing for targeting week under OPLAN 1003 V - the "final" planning of the deliberate targeting phase for the Iraq war in 2003. #OIF @MarkHertling @laraseligman @MilAvHistory @militaryhistori @dave_brown24 1/
- CNN's Wolf Blitzer: You knew that there were innocent civilians in that refugee camp, right? IDF spox: This is the tragedy of war. We told them to move south. Blitzer: So you decided to drop the bomb anyway. IDF spox: We’re doing everything we can to minimize civilian deaths.
00:00 - Thoughts on the #Dronestrike in #Kabul that killed an #Afghan family. For background I was the Chief of High Value Targeting on the Joint Staff 2002-03, led UN war crimes investigations in #Afghanistan in 2011, and in 2015 assisted in a study of airstrikes while deployed on the
