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CNN

06/02/10

The United States was identified Wednesday as the world’s No. 1 user of targeted killings — largely as a result of its dependence on unmanned drone attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan. A report released by the United Nations called the drone attacks part of a ’strongly asserted but ill-defined license to kill without accountability’ and warned that they are contributing to an erosion of longstanding international rules governing warfare...

http://tinyurl.com/28y27y3


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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CIA Drone Operators Oppose Strikes as Helping al Qaeda
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/06/03-3

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U.N. Report Highly Critical of U.S. Drone Attacks

By CHARLIE SAVAGE

He warned that the American example will lead to a chaotic world as the new weapons technology inevitably spreads.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25607.htm



UN condemns drone attacks, an act of extra-judicial killings

The United States was identified in a U.N.'s report as the world's No. 1 user of targeted killings, mainly because of its reliance on drone attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

http://www.pakistantimes.net/pt/detail.php?newsId=11742


From Information Clearing House

 

http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pakistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=drone
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Central+Intelligence+Agency
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=warfare
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=target+killing
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=assassin
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=extrajudicial
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=al-Qaeda
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gareth+Porter
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Charlie+Savage