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05 Nov

...citation of legal clauses and paragraphs. This cherry picking seems to be rife amongst so called "Legal experts" and deos nothing but tarnish the rule of law and the UN in general. federico The suggested approach acquires relevance in respect of the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones. The possibility of continuously tracking the target puts it in the extra-territorial power of the State, which is operating the unmanned aircraft. Once the drone engages the target, it is unlikely it loses it. Actually, the target moves under the umbrella...
05.11.14 | |

06 Apr

...research activity is focused on the "creeping" modification of the traditional ius ad bellum rules due to the need to face the global terrorist threat. My last published article is about the use of drones in counterterrorism: N. Colacino, From just war to permanent self-defence: the use of drones in counterterrorism and its questionable consistency with International Law standards, www.rivistaoidu.net n. 4/2015, pp. 607-629. Hope we will have new chances to exchange our views. Best, Nicola John Heieck Thanks, Nicola. I will read your article with great interest. Best, John...
06.04.16 | |

23 Jan

Benjamin G. Davis We will see what they say. One thing though is whatever the legal analysis whether Al-Awlaki met the standard or whether this is murder. I say that because Former Acting General Counsel of the CIA Rizzo referred to some of these occasions as murder in a recent interview I referred to in this oped at SALTLAW/Blog entitled "Bringing Light to Dark Matter: Drones, Torture and Illegal Wars" available at http://www.saltlaw.org/blog/2011/07/20/bringing-light-to-dark-matter-drones-torture-illegal-wars/ The apology to the family of Mr. Khan who is another American who was killed in that...
23.01.12 | |

12 Aug

...aforementioned information.I hope this helps.Obtestor Charles Gittings Hi Obtestor, * "If the Geneva Conventions protected terrorists, we wouldn't be having this discussion right now, would we?"Well they do and we are, so I guess maybe you need to work on your logic a bit.* "Think about it Charles, how are combatants that kill innocent civilians with sneaky bomb placements and suicide Shahid vests protected by the Geneva Conventions?"The same way everybody else is, including people who kill innocent civilians with Stealth bombers and Predator drones, or Marines who fire on...
12.08.05 | |

05 May

...military commission was completely logical based on the Khan and al-Nashiri under the MCA of 2009 and earlier matters. More in due course. Stepping out of Line (Redux): Refluat Stercus or an Essay in parts on the KSM and other Military Commissions, Torture, Habeas and Detention, Targeting with Drones, False Pretenses for the War in Iraq and other aspects of the current conflict and accountability http://www.saltlaw.org/blog/2012/05/05/stepping-out-of-line-redux-refluat-stercus-or-an-essay-in-parts-on-the-ksm-and-other-military-commissions-torture-habeas-and-detention-targeting-with-drones-false-pretenses-for-the-war-in-iraq/ Not that we really give much of a damn in America about justice. Best, Ben NewStream Dream Breaking, this is a giant echo chamber....
05.05.12 | |

13 Jul

...Habeas and Detention, Targeting with Drones, False Pretenses for the War in Iraq and other aspects of the current conflict and accountability. May 5, 2012)" (http://www.saltlaw.org/blog/2012/05/05/stepping-out-of-line-redux-refluat-stercus-or-an-essay-in-parts-on-the-ksm-and-other-military-commissions-torture-habeas-and-detention-targeting-with-drones-false-pretenses-for-the-war-in-iraq/) (v) Our knowledge about social causality is too slight to permit confident predictions about the effects of an as yet untried system. Response: See above on worldwide experience with tribunal d'exception. Our experience is sufficient to know these military commissions are a very bad idea. (vi) [I'm modifying Elster's last point, as it was meant to apply to constitutions and not institutions generally.] After...
13.07.12 | |

07 Mar

...was a publicity stunt, and that he posed a dumb question: . There are about a hundred interesting and difficult questions to pose to the administration about targeted killings and drones. Sen. Paul started with one of the least interesting: Can the government kill an American with a drone domestically? It’s about as interesting a question as, say, asking whether the Air Force can conduct air strikes against targets in Chicago. In fact, it’s the exact same question. And the answer to it is exactly the same: the Air Force...
07.03.13 | |

23 Nov

...war--also could be considered terrorists in that they are neither soldiers nor civilians." (Larry May, in War Crimes and Just War, 2007). And no doubt this makes it likely that Blackwater/Xe Services LLC is one of the CIA contractors involved with the CIA in the joint operations involving use of armed drones in Pakistan: "The heavy involvement of the CIA and CIA contractors in the decisions to strike may alone account for the high unintended death rates [in the drone attacks: from 2006 until late 2009, 'about 20 suspected militant...
23.11.09 | |

04 Jun

...with the rules of IHL, which prohibit or restrict certain means and methods of warfare." Further (relevant for the U.S. in terms of who operates the unmanned drones and does the shooting), that "IHL neither prohibits nor privileges civilian direct participation in hostilities. Therefore, such participation does not in itself constitute a war crime. However, civilians having directly participated in hostilities can be prosecuted for any offence that they may have committed under domestic law even if, in doing so, they did not violate IHL." Howard Gilbert The Alston article...
04.06.09 | |

08 Jan

Alan G. Kaufman While the legal issues are fascinating and important. no less so are the strategic ones -- which implicate legal issues related to a targeted killing policy that uses tools other than drones -- e.g. ununiformed covert operatives. I recommend review of the following: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-engelhardt/the-cia-surges_b_417881.html "Army Major General Michael Flynn, U.S. and NATO forces deputy chief of staff for intelligence in Afghanistan, released a report in which he labeled military intelligence in the war zone -- but by implication U.S. intelligence operatives generally -- “clueless.” They were, he...
08.01.10 | |

01 Aug

...putting the villagers into a state of panic. A villager who had fled from Srifa explained how the heavy Israeli bombardment effectively trapped people inside the village, and how the village Sheikh had ordered the terrified civilians to seek refuge in the wealthier "Moscow" neighborhood of the village, where the multiple-story homes had concrete basements that offered greater protection: After the first bombing, villagers started fleeing to neighboring villages for safety.Israel saw this from their drones, and they sent Apache helicopters to circle the village to prevent us from leaving.They...
01.08.09 | |

02 May

...counter arguments for a trial, but nevertheless aosme sort of process even ex post would have respected rule of law instead of immeidate burial at sea - or any UArt 51 or AUMF authorization arguments that oks in Khanna's mind intrusion into Pakistan's territorial integrity. Such theories for "new rules" and norms are extremely premature and very dangerous especially when applied as practice in context to a highly unstable area of the world already feeling the heating of what are considered extra judicial killings from the use of unmanned drones....
02.05.11 | |