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US Ambassador Admits Pakistan Drone Strikes Are War Crimes

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The US ambassador to Pakistan was forced to admit the use of drone strikes as reported in numerous media reports are war crimes in violation of international law.

The United States ambassador to Pakistan was finally pressed on the use of drones to kill civilians and target rescue workers responding to initial drone strike casualties in Pakistan.

In responding to the reports of such tactics as reported and documented by numerous news sources and human rights groups the ambassador admitted that as described the attacks are war crimes in violation of international law.

However, the ambassador played dumb and said he has no knowledge of any attacks ever having occurred and is not familiar with the reports from the news sources cited from the activists.

It appears, as I explain, below that the ambassador was lying about not having knowledge of the reports.

From Common Dreams on the video:

So why is it apparent the ambassador is lying about not having heard the reports of the targeting of civilians?

For starters there was a huge diplomatic war between a Pakistani lawyer for drone strike victims who tried to entire the United States to seek justice for the victims and the United States State Department which fought him tooth and nail to prevent him from entering.

The story made international news headlines and he was citing work from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism who blew apart the Pentagon’s lies that civilian casualties were very rare.

In fact the Pentagon launched a smear campaign against the BIJ afterwards but their attack didn’t hold water and it still stand that a massive number of civilian casualties has resulted from the drone strikes.

The activists cited these same BIJ reports to the ambassador along with other sources such as the New York Times and it is highly unlikely the Ambassador has never heard of these reports.

For example, within these links are numerous links to the work of the BIJ, The New York Times and many, many other news outlets describing the drones strikes as having been conducted which the Ambassador admits is a war crime but denies are occurring:

As Truth-Out Reports:

Take note I vehemently object to Truth-out’s including a quote that claims that initial drone strikes are corroborated by a “sizeable amount of intelligence from both reconnaissance and HUMINT sources”. This is disgusting government propaganda and a provable lie. Numerous corporate media news sources have revealed that we often kill people whose identities we don’t even know. Even more disturbing is the quote claims the follow up strikes are to an attempt to bag additional militants and has the unintended consequence of killing civilian. This is again another government lie. Several reports described drones hitting a first target taking out innocent civilians on purpose hoping to draw the actual target to that site to aid the casualties of the first strike. Then drones follow up with a second strike to get the militants they are after. The White House then ‘anonymously’ tells the corporate media parrots all who were killed were militants and the media echoes it without even attempting to verify it.

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