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UN Special Rapporteur Philip Alston Responds to US Defense of Drone Attacks’ Legality
The Obama administration has publicly defended the legality of drone attacks for the first time. State Department legal adviser Harold Koh said last week the use of drones in the fight against al-Qaeda was both legal and necessary. Koh’s comments come six months after Philip Alston, the United Nations’ Special
Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions, said that the strikes “might violate international humanitarian law and international human rights law.” Alston joins us with his reaction to Koh’s response.
rush transcript here – http://www.democracynow.org/2010/4/1/drones
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