US probes legality of anti-terror strikes

AFP
September 17, 2011

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (AFP) – A top US anti-terror advisor Friday hinted at the debate inside the White House over legal constraints on US operations striking at Al-Qaeda suspects in places like Yemen and Somalia.

  • A d v e r t i s e m e n t

John Brennan, President Barack Obama’s top advisor for counterterrorism and homeland security, was also using a speech to criticize attempts by some lawmakers to prevent civilian courts dealing with terror suspects.

Brennan’s speech at Harvard Law School later Friday laid out the legal questions surrounding US counterterrorism operations, especially the widening geographical spread of US military strikes against extremists.

“The United States does not view our authority to use military force against Al-Qaeda as being restricted solely to ‘hot’ battlefields like Afghanistan,” Brennan said in excerpts of his remarks.

Read full article






 
Print this page.

Comment Rules


One Response to “US probes legality of anti-terror strikes”

  1. I don’t know why would Americans hate Muslims so much. Muslims are actually feeding the arms industry, defense contractors including homeland security since Muslims are the current boogeyman after soviet union is gone. Arms industry needs excuses for military adventures abroad so they need to promote hate and spread Islamophobia to get westerners in line for what they want to do. target of all the drone attacks are Muslims including Muslim women and children. plenty of people made awful lot of money off us by staging 911. terror experts wrote fictions presented as truth and became millionaires. Muslims feed the oil industry and the war business abroad if those are the reasons for wars. Muslims feed the major part of broadcast and radio because you get to hear all the hate talks and drum beats of war by the cheerleaders for wars(journalists). Libya is invaded so lot of refugees will move to Europe and do the slave labor. look at New York city for example. majority of all the street vendors, street corner deli, cab drivers, restaurant workers are Muslims. can we please get a break because we are not responsible for 911? Americans know it. In fact all the terror bombing, bus bombing around the world are intelligence operations. why are we being profiled? why are we being persecuted for doing nothing? we don’t have a single holiday in America in the whole year. we work day and night like work dogs. Christians can get a break during Christmas and Jews get plenty of holidays throughout the year. but how about us? why can’t we be treated with some dignity where we don’t have to hear all the hatemongering once we turn on the radio?

Leave a Reply

You must be logged in to post a comment.

You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

Leave a Reply

Powered by WordPress | Designed by: Premium WordPress Themes | Thanks to Themes Gallery, Bromoney and Wordpress Themes