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| U.N. Official Set to Ask U.S. to End C.I.A. Drone Strikes |
| 2010-05-28 |
| A senior United Nations official is expected to call on the United States next week to stop Central Intelligence Agency drone strikes against people suspected of belonging to Al Qaeda, complicating the Obama administration's growing reliance on that tactic in Pakistan. Philip Alston, the United Nations special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, said Thursday that he would deliver a report on June 3 to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva declaring that the "life and death power" of drones should be entrusted to regular armed forces, not intelligence agencies. He contrasted how the military and the C.I.A. responded to allegations that strikes had killed civilians by mistake. "With the Defense Department you've got maybe not perfect but quite abundant accountability as demonstrated by what happens when a bombing goes wrong in Afghanistan," he said in an interview. "The whole process that follows is very open. Whereas if the C.I.A. is doing it, by definition they are not going to answer questions, not provide any information, and not do any follow-up that we know about." That's sort of the whole point of the CIA, you twit ... |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #11 You got your caps in the wrong places. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2010-05-28 23:56 |
| #10 ok here's the deal we will stop the strikes and also stop funding the un AND KICK THEIR ASS OUT OF new york |
| Posted by: chris 2010-05-28 21:48 |
| #9 Alston graduated from the University of Melbourne and from the University of California at Berkeley School of Law. |
| Posted by: Chavick Platypus4860 2010-05-28 13:02 |
| #8 Can we do CIA strikes on the UN that is actively trying to undermine the security and sovereignty of the United States? |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2010-05-28 11:06 |
| #7 Send a predator to shadow his car. |
| Posted by: mojo 2010-05-28 11:05 |
| #6 If the UN is requesting an end to predator strikes, we must be doing it right. More, faster please I disagree. The US should comply and perform Alien strikes. |
| Posted by: JFM 2010-05-28 10:35 |
| #5 Seems like an appropriate photo. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-05-28 09:23 |
| #4 reply to UN: "f*ck off" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-05-28 09:11 |
| #3 If the UN is requesting an end to predator strikes, we must be doing it right. More, faster please. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-05-28 08:41 |
| #2 That's is one of the biggest crock of shit I ever heard. |
| Posted by: Bugs Spealing3182 2010-05-28 07:39 |
| #1 UN officials strangely silent on Pakistan's national policy of intentionally killing civilians. |
| Posted by: gromky 2010-05-28 01:47 |
