‘The Only Game in Town’ – But is it a Legal One? American Drone Strikes and International Law
dc.contributor.author | Kirton, James | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-03-29T11:09:05Z | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-04-11T11:33:27Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-03-29T11:09:05Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-04-11T11:33:27Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
dc.identifier.citation |
Kirton, J. (2015) '‘The Only Game in Town’ – But is it a Legal One? American Drone Strikes and International Law', Plymouth Law and Criminal Justice Review, 7, pp. 77-112. Available at: https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/handle/10026.1/9023 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 2054-149X | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/9023 | |
dc.description.abstract |
In 2002 a US Predator drone operating above Afghanistan’s Paktia province spotted three men in Zhawar Kili, a complex slightly north of the infamous Tora Bora cave system, an area used by al-Qaeda leadership to train and regroup. One of the men was tall; supposedly the others were acting reverently towards him. Convinced the tall man was Osama bin Laden a Hellfire missile was fired from the Predator, killing all three men instantly. The tall man was not bin Laden. None of the men were even affiliated with al-Qaeda or the Taliban; they were simply civilians in the wrong place at the wrong time. This strike and many others that are all too similar raise a multitude of questions, both legal and moral, regarding the US lethal drone strike programme. This article attempts to examine the legal implications of US drone strikes; not only in Afghanistan, but further afield from the more traditional and accepted battlefields in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | University of Plymouth | |
dc.rights | Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) | * |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | * |
dc.subject | drone | en_US |
dc.subject | UAV | en_US |
dc.subject | armed conflict | en_US |
dc.subject | jus in bello | en_US |
dc.subject | jus ad bellum | en_US |
dc.subject | international human rights law | en_US |
dc.subject | al-Qaeda | en_US |
dc.title | ‘The Only Game in Town’ – But is it a Legal One? American Drone Strikes and International Law | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.type | Article | |
plymouth.volume | 7 | |
plymouth.journal | The Plymouth Law & Criminal Justice Review |