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 Report 22.12 2004: der Sonderberichterstatter merkt kritisch an, dass illegale Exekutionen mit Hinweis auf die Bekämpfung des Terrorismus gerechtfertigt werden ("targeting and eliminating known terrorists is more efficient and costs fewer lives than waging conventional war").
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+Report 2005: "to underscore the fact that efforts to eradicate terrorism must be
+undertaken within a framework clearly governed by human rights law as well as international
+humanitarian law, and that executions occurring in the context of armed conflict that violate that
+framework fall squarely within the remit of the Special Rapporteur. These issues have assumed
+particular salience in the past couple of years because they have been contested by some
+Governments. The most important responses in this regard have come from the Government of
+the United States in relation to two sets of allegations. The first concerned the alleged killing of
+six men by a “U.S.-controlled Predator drone aircraft” when they were travelling in a car in
+Yemen. At least one of those killed was said to have been a suspected senior figure of Al-Qaida.
+While there was no armed conflict in Yemen at the time, the United States pointed out that since
+Al-Qaida was waging war unlawfully against it, the situation constituted an armed conflict and
+thus “international humanitarian law is the applicable law”. In its view, “allegations stemming
+from any military operations conducted during the course” of such an armed conflict “do not fall
+within the mandate of the Special Rapporteur”, or of the Commission itself (E/CN.4/2003/G/80,
+annex)".
 Report 20.01.2007: "An earlier report examined the law applicable to violations of the right to life in armed