[Iran Press TV Latest] The US government's refusal to offer legal grounds for CIA's drones bombing raids in Pakistan may result in CIA officers facing prosecution for war crimes.
You'll have to get a special rapper to take us to the International Courts ...
"Prominent voices in the international legal community" were increasingly impatient with Washington's silence on the CIA's bombing raids in Pakistan and elsewhere, Kenneth Anderson, a law professor at American University, told a congressional panel on Tuesday, AFP reported.
Lawyers at the US State Department and other government agencies were concerned the administration has "not settled on what the rationales are" for the drone strikes, he said. "And I believe that at some point that ill serves an administration which is embracing this," said Anderson. The law professor said he believes the drone strikes are legal under international law, based on a country's right to self-defense, and urged the US administration to argue its case publicly.
The drone attacks, which have so far taken the lives of many civilians, have sparked outrage among the Pakistani nation amid Washington's claims that they are aimed at "Taliban militants." |