More civilian victims of our 'justice'

Here’s an interesting, if tragic, lesson in how to report the death of third world citizens at the hands of the world’s superpower. The United States has killed at least 15 people in Pakistan in an attempt to assassinate ‘Al Qaeda’s number two man’, Ayman al Zwahiri. Compare this report, which focuses on protests by ‘Anti-U.S. Islamic groups’ with this report from a popular online news site in Pakistan.

For the powerful there is the luxury of false intelligence and the ensuing, deadly mistake. There has been no mainstream media criticism of the fact that the US was attempting to commit an extra-judicial assassination (killing someone in the absence of any judicial process) either. Of course not, it’s Al Qaeda after all.

Anyone thought about actually bringing Zwahiri to justice? By which I mean catch him alive and bring him before an international criminal tribunal and require a prosecutor to establish exactly what Zwahiri is guilty of?