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May 30th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Contrary to US claims that assassination drone attacks kill only “a few innocent” people, the US unmanned aerial vehicles have taken the lives of over 2800 innocent people, spreading a climate of terror with disregard for human life, British historian, journalist and researcher, Deepak Tripathi told Press TV in an interview on Monday.
“I would say one innocent person killed is one too many, but it shows the callous disregard in Washington for the deaths of innocent people,” Tripathi said.
This comes as US terror drones and attack helicopters have killed 31 people in Yemen, Pakistan, and Afghanistan over the course of 72 hours since Wednesday.
Washington claims that its airstrikes target militants, but local sources say civilians have been the main victims of the attacks.
Tripathi criticizes the US for its ambiguous definition of a militant — “someone who possesses unique operational skills,” adding that “this definition is too imprecise and anybody of the age of 16, 16-year-old boys can be targeted under this definition.”
“Then there is a definition of militant irregular warfare activist by the international Red Cross…a member of an organized armed group which is engaged in continuous irregular warfare is a legitimate target,” Tripathi concluded.
The UN has called the US drone attacks targeted killings that flout international law.
On January 31, President Barack Obama confirmed that the US uses the unmanned drones in Pakistan and other countries.
The US has also conducted airstrikes with warplanes, attack helicopters, and drones in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, and Somalia.
GMA/JR
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