From: William Gladys <william.gladys@tiscali.co.uk>
Date: Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 5:25 PM
Subject: Fw: Unauthorized US strikes kill 46
To: world_Politics@googlegroups.com
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Unauthorized US strikes kill 46
Tue Dec 28, 2010 8:42AM
Unauthorized US drone attacks on tribal areas in northwest Pakistan have killed and wounded scores of people in the past two days.
At least 46 people have lost their lives and many more have been wounded in the attacks.
Four US drone strikes in North Waziristan on Tuesday also killed at least 24 people.
This comes a day after similar drone strikes in the same region killed nearly two dozen people and injured many more.
The unsanctioned US airstrikes in Pakistan have increased since President Barack Obama took office in 2009.
The number of such attacks has doubled this year, compared with the previous year. Large numbers of people have been so far killed in the unauthorized US drone attacks in 2010.
Washington claims its air raids target militants who cross the Pakistani border into Afghanistan to help the Taliban fight US-led foreign forces.
However, locals say civilians are the main victims of the non-UN-sanctioned attacks. Thousands of civilians have reportedly been killed in about 200 drone raids over the past six years.
Islamabad has repeatedly condemned the strikes as a violation of its sovereignty, asserting that such attacks have proved counterproductive in US-led war against terrorism.
The United Nations says the US-operated drone strikes in Pakistan pose a growing challenge to the international rule of law.
Philip Alston, UN special envoy on extrajudicial killings, said in a report in late October that the attacks were undermining the rules designed to protect the right of life.
Alston also said he feared that the drone killings by the US Central Intelligence Agency could develop a "playstation" mentality.
A recent report by the Brookings Institution says the illegal strikes have taken the lives of 10 civilians for every militant killed.
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