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To: Mephisto who wrote (5219)	11/7/2002 9:09:37 AM
From: Mephisto	Respond to of 15516

Killing probes the frontiers of robotics and legality 'War on terror' tag allows US to attack anywhere, lawyer argues Brian Whitaker in Cairo and Oliver Burkeman in New York Wednesday November 6, 2002 The Guardian The following is an excerpt: " In Washington officials admitted that the CIA had carried out the operation. The Swedish foreign minister, Anna Lindh, told the Swedish news agency TT: "If the USA is behind this with Yemen's consent, it is nevertheless a summary execution that violates human rights. If the USA has conducted the attack without Yemen's permission it is even worse. Then it is a question of unauthorised use of force." Walid al-Saqqaf, editor of the Yemen Times, said: "The Yemeni government is now in a very weak position. It means they no longer have sovereignty over the country." While defence experts said the incident could herald a new era of robotic warfare, international lawyers debated the legal implications of the surprising turn in US strategy: killing specific individuals in countries where there is no war. " "To have a drone that engages and kills people, that is quite a threshold to cross," Clifford Beal, editor of Jane's Defence Weekly, told Reuters. guardian.co.uk