By Bruce Drake
PEW Research - October 23, 2013
The U.S. drone campaign in Pakistan aimed at targeting al Qaeda and
Taliban is again coming under intense scrutiny, and the debate comes
against a backdrop in which U.S. public opinion about the use of drones
in general sharply differs from the widespread opposition to the missile
strikes among other nations.
A new report from Amnesty International
investigating the strikes in Pakistan said its findings raised “serious
concerns” over whether some of the killings have been unlawful and “may
amount to extrajudicial executions or war crimes and other violations
of international humanitarian law.” The report comes at a time when Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, a critic of the drone campaign, is to meet with President Obama, and when the United Nations has also raised questions about civilian deaths and U.S. transparency about the underpinnings of the program.
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