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Study: ‘Counterproductive’ Drone War ‘Terrorizes’ Civilians in Pakistan
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Citing Potential ‘War Crimes’ UN Official Questions Legality of Drone War
A UN investigator has called on the Obama administration to explain under what legal framework its drone war is justified and suggested that "war crimes" may have already been committed. Christof Heyns, UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary...
US Drone Kills 4 in Pakistan Bakery
An U.S. drone fired two missiles at a bakery in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, killing four alleged militants, in the third drone strike in the country in less than a week. As is usual, no hard information was provided about the individuals killed in the strike....
Bin Laden Disapproved of, Had Little Control Over ‘Affiliates,’ Documents Reveal
Osama bin Laden often disapproved of what so-called "affiliate" organizations were doing and in fact had very little, if any, control over their actions, according to declassified documents obtained by the U.S. during the raid on his residence a year ago. Bin Laden...
Obama Approves CIA Request to Kill Unidentified Individuals in Yemen Drone War
President Obama has approved a request from the CIA to begin launching targeted assassinations through drone strikes even when the identity of the victims is unknown. CIA Director David Petraeus, had requested permission to employ the tactic used in Pakistan for years...
CIA Seeks Authority to Kill Unidentified Targets in Yemen Drone War
The CIA is officially seeking authority to expand its covert drone war in Yemen by assassinating individuals even when their identities are not known in a move that would codify what appears to already be current practice. The agency's director, David H. Petraeus, has...
Taliban Claims Credit for Downing of US Drone
Taliban militants in Pakistan's tribal area of North Waziristan have taken credit for the downing of a U.S. drone aircraft after it crashed near the Afghan border on Saturday. "The drone today in Machikhel was flying at low altitude and our fighters fired at and shot...
AP Study Finds Most Drone War Casualties Are Militants
A recent investigation by the Associated Press into ten U.S. drone attacks in the tribal regions of Pakistan concluded that about 70 percent of those killed were militants, countering common Pakistani perceptions that the majority killed are civilians. Reporters from...
