The US has also employed a "double tap" tactic wherein the drones remain on station after the initial attack and then attack again, assaulting those who show up to give aid to the victims of the first strike. The US position is that those who arrive to provide aid must themselves be terrorists as well.
International law labels the deliberate targeting of relief workers a war crime.
Recent CIA director nominee, John Brennan, previously described the civilian deaths as "exceedingly rare" and only the "bad guys" are getting killed but among the casualties have been the deaths of at least 176 innocent children and 700 or more civilians.
The consequence of which has caused understandable animosity toward the United States and its personnel by the people and government of Pakistan where most of the drone strikes have taken place.
President Obama presides over secret meetings known as "Terror Tuesdays" among White House staff in which he personally assigns, selects, and authorizes the lethal air strikes against human targets using the drones.
The British and Israelis both have and employ armed drones in their arsenals as well and will be part of the same UN investigation.
It is unlikely, due to political pressure that the UN will ever label Obama as President of the United States a war criminal, no matter how compelling the evidence may be against him - though at the very least it is clear due to his personal responsibility for the deadly carnage among innocent civilians, that the Nobel Peace Prize committee should withdraw the Peace medal they so prematurely awarded in 2008 !
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