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Investigator Urges End To U.S. Drone Strikes

June 03 2010

United Nations

A U.N. official has called the U.S. the world's "most prolific user of targeted killings," citing the CIA's drone campaign against militants in Pakistan's tribal areas, the Los Angeles Times reports.

A new U.N. report claims the U.S. is asserting "an ever-expanding entitlement for itself to target individuals across the globe."

Philip Alston, a New York University law professor and the U.N.'s special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings, made his comments as he released his...

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