google.com - 10/28/2009
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(AFP) 21 hours ago UNITED NATIONS US drone strikes against suspected terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan could be breaking international laws against summary executions, the UN's top investigator of such crimes said. "The problem with the United States is that it is making an increased use ...
cnas.org - 10/28/2009
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cnas.org —
Why, you ask? Because if this is true,
and if the CIA is empowering Ahmed Wali Karzai...
at the same time in which NATO/ISAF is saying abusive local power-brokers are a threat to mission success, then this is yet another example of NATO/ISAF carrying ...
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The Most Important Article on Afghanistan You'll Read ...
news.yahoo.com - 10/28/2009
mudvillegazette.com - 10/28/2009
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mudvillegazette.com —
By the looks of it, this NY Times
story was going to tell the whole truth :...
The Great American Arm-Twist in Afghanistan KABUL, Afghanistan -- By the looks of it, the ceremony that unfolded last week inside the Presidential Palace here was marking a joyous, even triumphant, occasion. ...
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UN says Drone Strikes may Violate International Law
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From the AFP:
US drone strikes against suspected terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan could be breaking international laws against summary executions, the UN's top investigator of such crimes said.
"The problem with the United States is that it is making an increased use of drones/Predators (which are) particularly prominently used now in relation to Pakistan and Afghanistan," UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Executions Philip Alston told a press conference.
"My concern is that drones/Predators are being operated in a framework which may well ...
UN Rapporteur whines about drone strikes- I taunt him
Ace of Spades HQ —
... him And shockingly decides they violate international law. I am sure there is a law somewhere that they do violate, and shockingly I don't give a rat's ass. I can't say for sure that we have signed any treaty or agreement that requires us to proffer up said ass of rat, but if we did we ought to renounce it. The scary thing is that our soon to be Nobel Laureate gives rat asses by the train load about what the crap weasels at the UN think. Let me give the UN Rapporteur my thoughts. UNITED NATIONS US drone strikes against suspected terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan could ...
Morning Briefs: Stuff You've Probably Already Read Somewhere Else
Moonbattery —
... Item Number One: First the UN decided that paying high rent for crappy housing in New York City (a consequence of socialist rent-control, BTW) was a violation of human rights. Now, some Eurotwit is claiming its illegal for the United States to bomb terrorists. He says bombing terrorists without a trial amounts to "summary execution." ...
Two More Reasons For US To Quit, Expel, UN
Rhymes With Right —
... US . US drone strikes against suspected terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan could be breaking international laws against summary executions, the UN's top investigator of such crimes said. "The problem with the United States is that it is making an increased use of drones/Predators (which are) particularly prominently used now in relation to Pakistan and Afghanistan," UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Executions Philip Alston told a press conference. "My concern is that drones/Predators are being operated in a framework which may well violate international humanitarian ...
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