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Drone Guidelines for Other Countries to Follow Monday, 18 March
2013 15:26  Obama Wants to Draft Drone Guidelines for Other
Countries to Follow  Written by   The Obama administration
thinks its own use of drones to assassinate enemies — foreign or
domestic — should be unrestricted and shrouded in secrecy. When
it comes to other regimes pursuing a similar policy against
their own enemies, however, President Obama wants to make sure
they do it openly and that they follow the rules; rules he wants
to help draft.  An article in Reuters published on March 17
reports that in advance of China and other countries launching
their own military drone programs, the Obama administration is
“openly seeking to influence global guidelines” on the use of
drones by other nations.  In an ironic and damning twist,
according to Reuters, in 2011 China considered using a drone “to
kill a suspect in the 2011 murder of 13 Chinese sailors, but
authorities decided they wante