Pakistani drone victim suing United States

The Tampa Tribune ^ | December 25, 2010 | Associated Press

[4Runner]

In June, Philip Alston, the independent U.N. investigator on extrajudicial killings, urged the United States to lay out rules and safeguards, publish figures on civilian casualties and prove it has tried other ways to capture or incapacitate suspects without killing them.

[john drake]

Well, the dead can’t sue but their surviving relates through the decedents’ estate can, if I remember correctly. Regardless, I don’t think sharia law covers that. I was the impression that they had the right to kill all infidels, regardless of innocence or guilt (no guilt here as far as I know). So they’ll do what they always do, declare jihad and have at it. Meanwhile, we need several hundred more drones do the dirty work that our allies, the beloved pakistanis, won’t do.

[4Runner]

Law professor at NYU. From the Wikipedia article:

Alston's reports to the UN relating to extrajudicial executions also deal with broad thematic issues that arise in many countries, such as witchcraft and vigilante killings, national-level commissions of inquiry dealing with unlawful killings, the problem of prisoners running prisons, the importance of witness protection programs, the problem of governmental reprisals against individuals or groups who have cooperated with a UN human rights inquiry, the need to regulate the use of lethal force by law enforcement officers, shoot-to-kill policies....

This last has been made possible by Congress refusing to "declare war" wherever we deploy the U.S. military. So our military is always and perennially engaged in "police actions", subject to all of the limitations domestic law enforcement encounters on a daily basis. We are doing this to ourselves.

[reg45]

How about we sue Pakistan Islam for turning out so many terrorists?

[dog breath]

Maybe he should sue his tribal leaders for putting him in danger. That would be the lawsuit I would love to see, Some idiot cleric who supports terrorists being dragged into a real court. If they want to put the United States on trial, why not put their beliefs on trial.

[himno hero]

How can the OIC controlled “UN” intervene in this or any other Islamic issue when the US (using Israel as an example of their objectivity) will clearly be the losers?

[UCANSEE2]

ARTICLE from the past

U.S.9/11 Victims’ Families Sue Saudis
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=91377&page=1

“Some 600 family members of Sept. 11 victims filed a trillion-dollar lawsuit Thursday against the Sudanese government and Saudi officials, banks and charities, charging they financed Osama bin Laden’s network and the attacks on America.

But the suit also is therapeutic for relatives of the victims, who acknowledge they face long odds of collecting anything. “

[Red Dog #1]

4Runner,
Perhpas it's more a case lawyers on retainer for agiprop groups now have goat herders in Wazirstan. When it comes to lawsuits, there's always victims to be found or created.

[Westbrook]

> U.S.9/11 Victims’ Families Sue Saudis
> http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=91377&page=1

That was *SIX* years ago!

So, how did it turn out?

My guess is nothing at all came of it.

The Saudis are still funding genocidal fanatics, and the mosques and madrassas that breed them, all over the world.

Nothing at all should come of any lawsuit against the US for defending itself, either.

[4Runner]

Thanks for checking that out.

[saintgermaine]

The problem is that we no longer have any politicians with balls.....hmm?

[PIF]

And the U.N. wants to make sure the U.S. has exhausted every non-fatal means of apprehending al-Qaida or Taliban berzerkers in Waziristan and never ever resorting to lethal weapons.

Since the UN is largely a muslim org, they have lots of NYU red dope diaper baby ACLU lawyers ready to sue the US.

[Chode]

prove it...

[the invisib1e hand]

Eric holders firm representing?

[VOA]

bump

[Cicero]

Interesting bio. Actually he’s an Aussie, with a politician brother, who has gone international and currently is a law professor at NYU.

I see a parallel to Julian Assange, who is also an Aussie who has made global anti-Americanism his career choice.

[xrmusn]

Let me see.
Middle Eastern Terrorists flew airplanes into 3 buildings, a 4th crashed in a field and WE (the US Taxpayer), paid the families of the survivors so, in effect, they wouldn’t sue.

In retaliation, we launched a ‘War on Terror’ on those we deemed responsible - and those that ‘support’ them logistically - and now WE (the US Taxpayer), will be paying ‘reparations’ to the families etc.

Good thing Tibbetts and his ‘Enola Gay’ crew were not under the auspices of the UN.... can just see them being hauled into Court and this limp wristed govt of our NOT even paying for their defense.
Sweeney and the ‘Bockscar’ crew would have been marched off for execution upon landing.....

[Amberdawn]

It’s called lawfare for these very reasons.