U.N. to ask for end to CIA drone strikes

Published May 31, 2010

U.N. to ask for end to CIA drone strikes
WASHINGTON — A senior U.N. official is expected to call on the U.S. next week to stop Central Intelligence Agency drone strikes against people suspected of belonging to al-Qaida, complicating the White House’s growing reliance on the tactic in Pakistan. Philip Alston, the U.N. special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, said Thursday that he would deliver a report to …