UN wants CIA to quit killing the enemy

NY Times:

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.”

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The CIA does it in Pakistan, because the government there sees the military taking action as threat to their sovereignty but does not feel that way about the CIA. As usual the UN misses the point about "civilian" casualties. If the enemy is using human shields or camouflaging himself as a civilian, then he is responsible for the collateral damage and not the US.

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  1. Can we hit this Alston dirtbag, instead? In his office in the UN building. Collateral damage would be a benefit.

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