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For Many Pakistanis, 'USA' Means 'Drones' -- MSNBC
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – When attorney Shahzad Akbar began filing lawsuits against the Pakistan government on behalf of drone strike victims in 2010, some of his close friends started calling him "Taliban lawyer."
"But now, two years later, they don't do that anymore," he said.
In many ways the effects of the nearly nine-year U.S. program of targeted drone missile strikes in Pakistan were largely hidden from the rest of the world for many years. The strikes have been conducted in Pakistan's rugged and remote tribal region bordering Afghanistan – an area nearly impossible for outsiders to visit and from which it is incredibly difficult to extract reliable and timely information.
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My Comment: He is not going to succeed in a US court with a US jury. His hope is that European courts with sympathetic judges may help him in his cause .... but suing the US government for how it conducts its war policy against an enemy that has chosen to live in civilian populations .... with civilian populations knowing that there are consequences from such actions .... I predict is going to go nowhere.
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