Obama's brief Congress on secret documents justifying the attacks of drones
U.S. President Barack Obama informed Congress on confidential documents, legal justify raids drones, which led to the killing of terrorists abroad of the most prominent leader of al-Qaeda, "Anwar al-Awlaki."
"Moscow News"
The news agency Agence France Presse, an official in the U.S. administration, on Wednesday, the eve of the hearing in the Senate that "Obama ordered the Justice Department to provide the intelligence committees in Congress documents secret belonging to the Office of legal advice in connection with the subject of the document and the Ministry of Justice."
The document provides a definition of the concepts of self-defense and the impending attack broader than the definition provided by the U.S. officials publicly in the past, talked about "the implicit right to self-defense" in the context of their defense for the attacks.
The memo confirmed that it will brief congressional committees on the war on terrorism, it is not necessary to be an attack against the United States and its interests planned target person "imminent" for the implementation of a raid.
She said that the "requirement of the formation of a leading activist in imminent danger of violent attacks on the United States, does not require obtaining a clear proof of an attack on American citizens and interests in the near future." Instead, the administrator can "high-level and early" to make a decision that the target person is "an imminent threat to launch a violent attack on the United States" in the event of his participation "long ago" in similar activities while not prove on his return or abandoning them.
The document also stipulates not target the person's arrest, this case is that the form of his arrest "a major threat" to the Americans.
The document bearing which consisted of 16 pages entitled "fatal legal process against a U.S. citizen senior assume a leadership position in the base or force cooperating with it."
One of the most controversial attacks, the raid, which took place in September / September 2011 in Yemen, which killed Imam Anwar Al-Awlaki and Samir Khan, two leading figures in al-Qaeda, being the U.S. citizens not Adana any crime.
Obama's aides insist that the killing of al-Qaeda suspects, including U.S. citizens sometimes in conflict points such as Yemen, does not violate the laws and the Constitution of the United States, even in the absence of intelligence information linking specific schemes targeted attack.
For his part, White House spokesman Jay Carney, "We carry out these raids because they are necessary to reduce the threat list and continuous, and to stop the schemes and to prevent future attacks and again, to save the lives of Americans," adding that "these strikes legal, ethical and wise."
In another context, picked up the American media information to suggest that the United States two years ago, used a secret base for unmanned aircraft in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
She added that "the United States use this rule in the liquidation of the fighters in neighboring Yemen, including the assassination of Anwar al-Awlaki, the leader of the al-Qaeda.
The news agency Agence France Presse, an official in the U.S. administration, on Wednesday, the eve of the hearing in the Senate that "Obama ordered the Justice Department to provide the intelligence committees in Congress documents secret belonging to the Office of legal advice in connection with the subject of the document and the Ministry of Justice."
The document provides a definition of the concepts of self-defense and the impending attack broader than the definition provided by the U.S. officials publicly in the past, talked about "the implicit right to self-defense" in the context of their defense for the attacks.
The memo confirmed that it will brief congressional committees on the war on terrorism, it is not necessary to be an attack against the United States and its interests planned target person "imminent" for the implementation of a raid.
She said that the "requirement of the formation of a leading activist in imminent danger of violent attacks on the United States, does not require obtaining a clear proof of an attack on American citizens and interests in the near future." Instead, the administrator can "high-level and early" to make a decision that the target person is "an imminent threat to launch a violent attack on the United States" in the event of his participation "long ago" in similar activities while not prove on his return or abandoning them.
The document also stipulates not target the person's arrest, this case is that the form of his arrest "a major threat" to the Americans.
The document bearing which consisted of 16 pages entitled "fatal legal process against a U.S. citizen senior assume a leadership position in the base or force cooperating with it."
One of the most controversial attacks, the raid, which took place in September / September 2011 in Yemen, which killed Imam Anwar Al-Awlaki and Samir Khan, two leading figures in al-Qaeda, being the U.S. citizens not Adana any crime.
Obama's aides insist that the killing of al-Qaeda suspects, including U.S. citizens sometimes in conflict points such as Yemen, does not violate the laws and the Constitution of the United States, even in the absence of intelligence information linking specific schemes targeted attack.
For his part, White House spokesman Jay Carney, "We carry out these raids because they are necessary to reduce the threat list and continuous, and to stop the schemes and to prevent future attacks and again, to save the lives of Americans," adding that "these strikes legal, ethical and wise."
In another context, picked up the American media information to suggest that the United States two years ago, used a secret base for unmanned aircraft in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
She added that "the United States use this rule in the liquidation of the fighters in neighboring Yemen, including the assassination of Anwar al-Awlaki, the leader of the al-Qaeda.
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