Unjustified killing: UN wants US drone attacks explained

June 19, 2012 12:10

A UN investigator has called on Washington to provide justification for the increasingly widespread use of military drones to carry out targeted killings. He says drone attacks, which take innocent civilian lives, may be violating international law.

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Droneman (unregistered) 28.06.2012 00:07

UN wants US drone attacks explained? OK UN. 
Terrorist  deliberately kill innocent people.Drones kills terrorist.
And we have thousands of them. 
Enough said. 

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yuri_nahl (unregistered) 22.06.2012 03:04

These drones are only looking for Darth Vader's escape pod and landing in Russia to pick up frozen mammoth meat to bring back for U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton. She needs the mammoth meat to "chunk up" so she can become a professional wrestler after her stint as Secretary of State is over. She aims to become a female Mickey Rourke. (apologies to Mr. Rourke, an admirable fellow.) The mammoths which have been frozen for thousands of years had been grazing on the bountiful poppy fields of Eurasia. I believe their meat is what gives Madame Secretary that heavy eyelided look of people who have been on the pipe for a few years. Unless of course I'm wrong, and it's just her own natural sociopathic illness becoming more obvious. Oh for the days when Bill was just elected president and all of a sudden there was Hills, who was going to save the children! Now she seems to be on a murdering spree, although I would hardly call bombing brown skinned people to steal their resources a successful career as a diplomat. Unless I'm wrong, of course!

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Ricky1962 (unregistered) 20.06.2012 13:10

Wonder? Are my comments treason or sedition against the Useless States? Or both? I hope both. I do like to be thorough. 

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AJ (unregistered) 20.06.2012 12:39

Mark Bernadiner (unregistered) wrote in #14 UN is a notorious gang of thieves, murderers and liars. UN ultimate objective is being a World Government, Nazi style. UN got its Nazi face from former UN secretary-general Kurt Waldheim, who was Nazi SS officer and committed war crimes in WWII. UN is not just ---------------- ---------Reply------ ----- The UN was established by the US and the imperial powers at the time ( UK and France) to keep their domination on the world and to protect the jews. Kurt Waldheim was the most decent Secretary -  General the UN ever had.

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Mark Bernadiner (unregistered) 20.06.2012 12:05

UN is a notorious gang of thieves, murderers and liars. UN ultimate objective is being a World Government, Nazi style. UN got its Nazi face from former UN secretary-general Kurt Waldheim, who was Nazi SS officer and committed war crimes in WWII. UN is not just useless organization; UN is very dangerous to world stability and prosperity and shall be dismantled.

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freeman (unregistered) 20.06.2012 10:48

The last  thing we need is the UN to get any real power.... because it's just the Bilderbergers innit!! All those Kissinger "trans-altlantic" focus groups et al........... "may have violoted international law"........ "may have"...... killing innocent people....... "may have violated law".............."m ay have"...... "innocent people"........ yeah. 

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indeed (unregistered) 20.06.2012 10:36

Commander in Chief Dick Weed (unregistered) wrote in #12
Its should be obvious that there is no difference between race. America`s first Black President is just the same as the previous Texan wide boy redneck. All so called elite politicians are the same. They serve the highest bidder who right now is clearly the Military Industrial Complex. America seems to be in a strange position of having Fascism but not racial or nationalistic orientated but a Fascism which simply says that money rules the world and we will make sure we control the money so get rich or die suckers. Thats what this game`s seems to be about.
Yes! You got 12 of 12 hits: it is "Fascism MK IV" or "Generation Five".
In comparison to the 3rd Reich the main new key part of it is the recent value in mass conduction of INDIFFERENCE.
This is very important to understand. For those interested I will try to throw a  little light on it: So, Gnostics and Christian esoterics know that Lucifer is only one major side of evil. The Luciferian Evil so to say is the "genii-style" of it, but the much older Ahrimanic Evil is the far more simplistic "moloch-style".
Ahriman, the older and mostly unknown brother of Lucifer, gets worshipped by indifference and indifference teaches no distinction, where distinction is vital above all. It is like notouriously poisoning the well without a formulated plan to extinct it, but just out of a stance of indifference towards the well´s grace and nature.
It is the numb masses indifferently eating away the substance for any species to live on this planet or the father chopping down the apple trees just for a little fire wood and deserting the land for fast "paper-asset" profit, so that his children and grandchildren inevitably will have to suffer poverty and starvation in downgraded circumstances.Lucife rian is inflammation or ignition, Ahrimanic is wastage or deterioration.

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dandelion 13 (registered) (unregistered) 20.06.2012 09:40

SJ-Phil (unregistered) wrote in #16
 The "Civilians" that support these combatants are "fair game".  These terrorists that hide in population centers are attempting to hide from the drone attacks...it won't work!  THESE terrorists ATTACKED OUR COUNTRY AND KILLED OVER 3,000 CITIZENS.

What is no reason to act like you do or to violate international rights like you do or to kill and starve hundred´s of thousands like you do or to trade the world´s heroin like you do or to do all the other things you do, just because your own government sacrifices your own people and bombs down buildings in its own city to create propaganda zombies like you are to talk bias bull to people like we are, who partly represent the disgusted global public.The shame and poverty of mankind is proven in the international reactions on and after 9/11. The believers of the lie sold the souls of all the dead.
Now, how many pakistani children do you want to kill? How many jemenite mothers do you want to slaughter in addition? How many have to die all over the world until America realises who they have become?

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dandelion 13 (registered) (unregistered) 20.06.2012 09:25

"He says drone attacks, which take innocent civilian lives, may be violating international law."
Any further questions about human rights?

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Hani (unregistered) 20.06.2012 07:44

SJ-Phil (unregistered) wrote in #16
So how does a country, like the USA, combat state-less terrorists (combatants)?  The Pakistani gov't is constantly in a state of crisis while they continue to double-deal with the USA.  Pakistan continues to fail to effectively enforce their own laws in the NW Territories where Al-Qaeda and the Taliban fighters take refuge.  Pakistani military actively supports the "Haqqani-network" in spite of civilian gov't orders to not do so.  The "Civilians" that support these combatants are "fair game".  These terrorists that hide in population centers are attempting to hide from the drone attacks...it won't work!  THESE terrorists ATTACKED OUR COUNTRY AND KILLED OVER 3,000 CITIZENS.

The discovery of Oil in the Caspian Sea is actually the main reason why this war is going on in Af-Pak region. The acquisition of energy resources is going to ensure America's future as a superpower. Once the taliban declined US the transport routes, the neocons in US administration saw it fit to dismantle the same taliban govt. that came to power with Washington's nod and with the help of Pakistan and other muslim countries. Al-Qaeda was merely a spent force, that was used by the US against the Soviet Union but once they fulfilled their purpose and started to grow some teeth they were pursued and finally they ended up in the caves of Afghanistan, lacking any power whatsoever to challenge the might of US. Likewise, the Haqqani Network is no threat to American security but along with Taliban they could spoil US plans of transporting Oil from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan to Karachi. This war is not about US security rather it is a war to ensure America's hegemony over the world.  

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mario (unregistered) 20.06.2012 04:20

SJ-Phil (unregistered) wrote in #16 So how does a country, like the USA, combat state-less terrorists (combatants)?  The Pakistani gov't is constantly in a state of crisis while they continue to double-deal with the USA.  Pakistan continues to fail to effectively enforce their own laws in the NW Territories where Al-Qaeda and the Taliban fighters take refuge.  Pakistani military actively supports the "Haqqani-network" in spite of civilian gov't orders to not do so.  The "Civilians" that support these combatants are "fair game".  These terrorists that hide in population centers are attempting to hide from the drone attacks...it won't work!  THESE terrorists ATTACKED OUR COUNTRY AND KILLED OVER 3,000 CITIZENS. I hope we will see more attacks in the future and next time I hope that you are one of the fvcking collateral damage. 

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AJ (unregistered) 20.06.2012 04:15

“He says drone attacks, which take innocent civilian lives, may be violating international law”….. “MAY BE”, this is UN / US justice. For these murderers it is acceptable to kill innocent civilians. They are collateral damage!!!

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Watcher (unregistered) 20.06.2012 03:09

War for profit. Always has been and always will. I love my country" U.S." but the sick pigs have ruined it.

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alephfool (unregistered) 20.06.2012 01:57

Yes, we all know that the UN is totally corrupted and bias to US interests, what is needed now is for a boycott of nations outside the cabal to do their own thing and give themselves the right to opine on world events and apply sanction against criminal behaviour. If you know the game is rigged and crooked then do'nt play. Start your own game but please ensure that it does not degenerate into a clone. Following my theme of the day."When the many unite they become LEGION.

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Dwain Duncan (unregistered) 19.06.2012 23:59

Then who should the UN explain their murder of innocent civilians to? are they serious or is  this a joke or something? Is the same blood on all of their hands..

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Trepan (unregistered) 19.06.2012 20:22

The UN wants an explaination? What's to explain? The U.S. is eliminating "high value" targets where ever they please. Does this remind anyone of another country that does the same thing? The UN must decide whether they want to condone Mossad style assasinations in every country in the world, which by the way will include the U.S. eventually. Never mind, who cares what the UN says, they are worthless.

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Sedition Case (unregistered) 19.06.2012 20:14

to generalize, in the united states, there are more surveillance cameras than on most continents. using the patriot act, among other intolerable measures, they spy on our phone conversations, our text messages, monitor your activity on the internet, & who knows how many countless spy satellites there are up there, watching us as we go about our daily lives. military drones on reconnaissance are most cost effective when the threat level to a pilot is unnecessarily high.
for the united states government to tell you that it is within the best interests of our national security, to have a fleet of UAVs "patrolling" our skies to keep our homes free from terrorism, is blaspheme. its a declaration of war against the citizens of the united states.

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