Inner City Press

Inner City Press -- Investigative Reporting From the United Nations to Wall Street to the Inner City

These reports are usually available through Google News and on Lexis-Nexis

Google
  Search innercitypress.com Search WWW (censored?)

In Other Media-eg AJE, FP, Georgia, NYT Azerbaijan, CSM Click here to contact us     .

,



Follow us on TWITTER

Home -

These reports are usually available through Google News and on Lexis-Nexis

CONTRIBUTE

RSS

ICP on YouTube

BloggingHeads.tv

UN: Sri Lanka

VoA: NYCLU

FOIA Finds  

Google, Asked at UN About Censorship, Moved to Censor the Questioner, Sources Say, Blaming UN - Update - Editorial

Support this work by buying this book

Click on cover for secure site orders

also includes "Toxic Credit in the Global Inner City"
 

 

 


Community
Reinvestment

Bank Beat

Freedom of Information
 

How to Contact Us



Will US Drone Strikes in Yemen Pause for UNSC Sanaa Weekend Visit?

By Matthew Russell Lee

UNITED NATIONS, January 24 -- As the UN Security Council prepares for its trip to Yemen, the revived proposal for which Inner City Press first reported and then was encouraged to stop publishing details about, a new security threat has arisen.

  The US campaign of drone strikes on Wednesday reached Al Masna village in Khawlan district, killing six people a mere 35 kilometers away from Sanaa, which Security Council members are slated to visit this weekend.

   The question is, will the US pause or move its drone campaign during the Council's visit?

   After the question arose - on Twitter - Inner City Press posed it to several Security Council diplomats later on Thursday morning. One said that another closed door consultation about the trip, including a briefing by the Department of Safety and Security, would take place Thursday afternoon.

   Another said there is "no way" that the issue of US drone strikes will be discussed in the Security Council, even in a closed door session right before Council members visit the "drone rain" of Sanaa.

   But UN expert Ben Emmerson is beginning an inquiry into drone strikes, including in Yemen. Click here for Inner City Press coverage of Emmerson and drones, here for coverage of the UN Peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous' proposal to use drones. Watch this site.

Share |

* * *

These reports are usually also available through Google News and on Lexis-Nexis.

Click here for Sept 26, 2011 New Yorker on Inner City Press at UN

Click for  BloggingHeads.tv re Libya, Sri Lanka, UN Corruption

Feedback: Editorial [at] innercitypress.com

UN Office: S-253, UN, NY 10017 USA Tel: 212-963-1439

Reporter's mobile (and weekends): 718-716-3540

Google
  Search innercitypress.com  Search WWW (censored?)

Other, earlier Inner City Press are listed here, and some are available in the ProQuest service, and now on Lexis-Nexis.

            Copyright 2006-2013 Inner City Press, Inc. To request reprint or other permission, e-contact Editorial [at] innercitypress.com