Drone Strikes = Murder

An activist says the assassination drone attacks carried out by the US around the world are against all domestic and international laws and disregard the sovereignty of nations.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/01/21/284764/us-drone-strikes-amounts-to-war-crime/

Watch the video at the above link!  The narrator/hostess produced the series “The Facade of the American Dream”

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In an interview with Press TV, Mike Harris, financial editor of Veterans Today, said that the US drone attacks, which have killed thousands of innocent people in various countries should be considered a war crime.

“These drone attacks are a war crime. It is murder. There is no other word for it. It is plain and simple murder. And it should not be allowed,” said Harris.

While Washington claims the drone attacks target al-Qaeda militants, witnesses and local officials maintain that civilians are the main victims of the assaults.

“This is murder. It is plain and simple murder of innocent civilians. And even if they are military adversaries, it is indiscriminate, it is not the way you fight a war. There is too much collateral damage on this. It is not worth it. I mean it is heartbreaking,” said Harris.

Targets are chosen from Obama’s so called “kill list”, a list of individuals who the US suspects are terrorists, named to be assassinated after final approval by the president.

“This is [an] extremely dangerous situation…

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