UN Investigator Blasts US Drone Program
<div class='node-body'><p><span id="articleText">In a report issued overnight to the United Nation's Human Rights Council (UNHRC), UN investigator and <a href="http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Executions/Pages/SRExecutionsIndex.aspx">special rappateur on </a></span><a href="http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Executions/Pages/SRExecutionsIndex.aspx"><span id="articleText">extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions </span></a><span id="articleText">Christof Heyns condemned the continued use of US drones to assassinate suspected militants and questioned the legality of the Obama administration's program under int</span></p></div><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-news-hp-image">
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