▻http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/did-the-cias-drone-program-in-pakistan-begin-with-a-bargaining-chip-ki
« Others » sont les victimes du « side-payment strike », les frappes contre les ennemis des amis du régime étasunien, afin d’obtenir l’autorisation desdits amis d’utiliser leur ciel pour mener des frappes contre AQ et leurs alliés.
The revelation that this first target was not part of al Qaeda, but rather a target picked by an ally country, has raised serious questions for critics of the CIA’s actions. “How many other killings have been carried out not pursuant to a strict legal analysis and examination of threat to the U.S., but rather as a bargaining chip, at the request of another government?” Sarah Knuckey, a lawyer and the director of NYU Law School’s Project on Extrajudicial Executions, asks Rolling Stone.
The secrecy in which the targeted killing program is shrouded makes that question impossible to answer conclusively at this time, but there is reason to believe that some of the individuals on the kill list (or lists) are known as “side payment” targets – people who are enemies of a U.S. ally, not the U.S. itself.
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