From GEO Television:NEW YORK: The United States should be more forthright about how many civilians die in its overseas wars, and exercise more caution with unmanned drone attacks, a United Nations human rights envoy said on Wednesday.
Philip Alston, U.N. special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, called the U.S. reliance on pilotless missile-carrying aircraft "deeply troubling" and cited "serious shortcomings" with the U.S. military justice system.
"The government should track and make public the number of civilian casualties," he told the U.N. Human Rights Council.
He recommended that Washington make public the status of all investigations into civilian deaths in its armed conflicts.
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My Comment: The one tool that has been effective against Al Qaeda and their Taliban allies in Pakistan, and the UN focuses on that. This UN official's bias is clearly being revealed.