UN Wants U.S. to End Drone Attacks
The Washin
gton Post reports that a senior UN official has called upon the United States to end drone attacks on senior terrorist figures in Pakistan.
A senior United Nations official said Wednesday that the United States should halt the CIA's drone campaign against al-Qaeda and Taliban forces in Pakistan, charging that the official secrecy surrounding the strikes violates the legal principle of international accountability.
But a report by Philip Alston, the United Nations special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, stopped short of declaring the CIA program illegal.
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