ISLAMABAD — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was confronted repeatedly by Pakistanis Friday as she ended a tense three-day tour of the
country, chastised by one woman who said a U.S. program using aerial drones to target terrorists amounted to "executions without
trial."
Asked repeatedly about the drones, a subject that involves highly classified CIA operations, Clinton said only that "there is a war going
on." She added that the Obama administration is committed to helping Pakistan defeat the insurgents.
OK so two points, the Pakistanis claim it is execution without trial, and Clinton claims there is a war.
My stand is obvious for those who know me,
execution without trial is where I stand.
The report asserted that the US government has failed to keep track of civilian casualties of its military operations, including the drone
attacks, and to provide means for citizens of affected nations to obtain information about the casualties and any legal inquests regarding them[117].
Any such information held by the U.S. military is allegedly inaccessible to public due to the high level of secrecy surrounding the drone attacks
program[118].
The US representative at UNHRC has argued that the UN investigator for extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions does not have jurisdiction
over US military actions[117], while another US diplomat claimed that the US military is investigating any wrongdoing and doing all it can to
furnish information about the deaths[119].
Pakistani bases are used for drone attacks:
Shamsi airfield, also called Bandari, is a small airfield located in Balochistan, Pakistan, about 200 miles (320 km) southwest of Quetta near the
town of Washki. In 2009 media reports alleged that the airfield was used by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as a base for Predator
drone attacks on militants in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
Image of US drones in Pakistani airfield
Sattellite image of Shamsi puports to show three Predator aircraft on a parking ramp.
Target casualties compared to civilian deaths:
The paper, authored by Peter Bergen and Katherine Tiedmann, reports that somewhere between 750 and 1,000 have been killed by the strikes, including
between 250 and 320 noncombatants and only 20 "leaders of al Qaeda, the Taliban and allied groups"
Sources of this report
those figures were derived by compiling the available data from a variety of news sources, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the
BBC, and major English-language papers in Pakistan.
The Ultimate Conclusion
From my Perspective:
execution without trial
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