UK govt sued for helping drone strikes

A human rights group and a law firm took legal action yesterday against the British government, accusing it of passing on intelligence to assist US covert drone attacks in Pakistan.
The London-based charity Reprieve and the law firm Leigh Day & Co are filing papers to the High Court claiming that civilian staff at Britain's electronic listening agency, GCHQ, could be liable as "secondary parties to murder" for providing "locational intelligence" to the CIA in directing its drone attack program.
The two are acting on behalf of Noor Khan, 27, a Pakistani whose father was killed by a drone strike in northwest Pakistan in March 2011 while attending a gathering of elders.