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[quote]A senior United Nations official is expected to call on the United States next week to stop Central Intelligence Agency drone strikes against people suspected of belonging to Al Qaeda, complicating the Obama administration’s growing reliance on that tactic in Pakistan.
Philip Alston, the United Nations special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, said Thursday that he would deliver a report on June 3 to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva declaring that the “life and death powerâ€
U.N. Official Set to Ask U.S. to End C.I.A. Drone Strikes
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"it takes two sides to end a war but only one to start one. And those who do not have swords may still die upon them." Tolken
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The UN isn't a stopped watch, it's a watch with a pretty face but no hands or numbers on it and when you open it up you realize the son of a bitch who sold it to you didn't even put in any gears.
"it takes two sides to end a war but only one to start one. And those who do not have swords may still die upon them." Tolken