米国は無人機で初めて4人のアメリカ人の死を認めている
U.S. admits for the first time the death of four Americans by drones
EE UU admite por primera vez la muerte de cuatro norteamericanos por ‘drones’
Este anuncio se produce un día antes del discurso previsto del presidente para explicar algunos cambios en la política de seguridad nacional
Antonio Caño Washington 22 MAY 2013 - 23:59 CET
U.S. admits for the first time the death of four Americans by drones
This announcement comes a day before the president's planned speech to explain some changes in national security policy
Antonio Cano Washington 22 MAY 2013 - 23:59 CET
The Obama administration has acknowledged for the first time the death, in recent years, four Americans, one of them deliberately, in drone attacks (unmanned aircraft) in Yemen and Pakistan. This announcement comes a day before the president's planned speech to explain some changes in national security policy.
The deaths of the four Americans was recognized by Attorney General Eric Holder, in a letter sent Wednesday to the leaders of both parties in Congress in which he defends the decision to kill one of them, the most famous of all Anwar al-Awlaki, as a measure "legitimate and just."
For some time, had attributed the death of Al-Awlaki a U.S. drone attack carried out in the territory of Yemen in September 2011, but the government, which kept secret drones program until less than a year, never had admitted.
In its submission to Congress, Holder also recognizes the dead in the same attack American citizen Samir Khan, as well as the son of Al-Awlaki, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, another drone bombing in Yemen a few months later. In both deaths was no news.
However, a quarter did not know the American citizen, Mohammed Jude, that, according to the letter from the attorney general, was killed by a drone in Pakistan, apparently, in November 2011.
Holder said in its submission that only the death of Al-Awlaki was premeditated. The other three were circumstantial. He adds that in the first case, a leader of Al Qaeda very influential on the Internet, is justified by uncovered plans to organize attacks against the United States.
"The information available, and that remains classified to protect sources and methods of obtaining it, make clear Awlaki's involvement in planning numerous plots against U.S. and Western interests, and shows that was involved in these plots until the time of his death, "said the Justice Department communication.
Indeed, on Thursday Obama will announce new rules on the use of drones, whose mass participation in the war against terrorism during the years of this administration has caused much criticism against the president. The drones, while mitigating the risks of the attackers and, perhaps, the number of accidental deaths, arouse great moral challenge. It is expected that in the same speech Obama also made public a new strategy to try closing the Guantanamo prison.
Those two issues, drones and Guantanamo, are the main reasons for controversy over Obama's counterterrorism policy and two of the common cause for protest human rights organizations.
In the case of drones, their use has multiplied in the first four years of this government to become the most effective weapon for the dismantling of Al Qaeda. At the same time, both the governments of Pakistan and Afghanistan, the two countries that have intervened more frequently, have complained that the bombings of these devices often affect innocent civilian population.
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