Friday, April 24, 2015

American drone strikes under international scrutiny

The United States is coming under mounting pressure over its use of military drones, following the admission that it accidentally killed two western hostages on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.

American Warren Weinstein and Italian Giovanni Lo Porto were killed during a strike on a suspected al-Qaeda compound, but as John Clarke reports from Washington DC, critics of drones say the tragedy shows America doesn't really know who it's killing.

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