A still image from October 2009 video footage shows Abu Yahya al-Libi, a Libyan-born top Al Qaeda leader, who was killed in a US drone strike in Pakistan earlier this week. Courtesy of IntelCenter/Reuters
Exclusive: Drones "Inhumane", Dead al Qaeda Man's Family Says -- Reuters
(Reuters) - The brother of al Qaeda's second-in-command, who was killed in a U.S. drone strike, said Washington's use of the remote-controlled weapons is inhumane and makes a nonsense of its claims to champion human rights.
U.S. officials said on Tuesday that Libyan-born al Qaeda operative Abu Yahya al-Libi was killed by a drone strike in Pakistan, in what was described as a major blow to the militant group.
The attack is likely to fuel an increasingly fierce debate about the legality and morality of the drones, which have become one of the chief U.S. weapons against al Qaeda but which opponents say stretch the definition of the legitimate use of lethal force.
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My Comment: I am not going to shed any tears for this family's 'outrage'.
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