SMUN ICJ Witness List for USA

1st Witness Real Name: Role in SMUN other than witness: Fictional Name: Martha McSally Their Role: Retired Colonel who was on the leadership team when the US first used the MQ-1 for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance and also when the the US first employed the Predator to conduct a strike using Hellfire missiles Material upon which EIC is based on: Senate Judiciary Sub-Committee on The Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights. (23 April 2013).Prepared Statement of Martha McSally, Colonel (retired), USAF. Retrieved from: http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/pdf/04-23-13McSallyTestimony.pdf Summary of EIC: To understand the military benefits of the drones and how they are the only viable alternative in this conflict as other methods would only cause superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering to either party. 2nd Witness Real Name: Role in SMUN other than witness: Fictional Name: C. Christine Fair Their Role: Assistant professor in the Center for Peace and Security Studies (CPASS), within Georgetown Universitys Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service Material upon which EIC is based on: C. C. Fair. (2011). The Problems with Studying Civilian Casualties from Drone Usage in Pakistan: What We Cant Know. Retrieved from: http://themonkeycage.org/2011/08/17/theproblems-with-studying-civilian-casualties-from-drone-usage-in-pakistan-what-wecan%E2%80%99t-know/ Summary of EIC: To highlight how civilian causality rates are an inaccurate indicator as to whether the use of drones had inflicted superfluous harm or unnecessary suffering and that casualty rates provided by the Pakistani Press and other sources have been heavily conflated, hence compromising the reliability of opposing counsel . Also, to illustrate how the Pakistani military is unable to fully eradicate the terrorist, hence necessitating the need for US involvement, reinforcing the fact that the injury and harm is not superfluous or unnecessary. The fact that the Pakistani elites had shared their intelligence reports also shows that they are cognizant of their inability and also, by virtue of the fact that intelligence

reports were passed to USA proves that drone strikes were targeted at specific terrorists, thereby preventing unnecessary suffering and superfluous injury as they were not done arbitrarily. 3rd Witness Real Name: Role in SMUN other than witness: Fictional Name: Maj-Gen Ghayur Mehmood Their Role: General Officer Commanding 7-Division who is leading troops in the strategically sensitive and Talibandominated North Waziristan Agency in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas Material upon which EIC is based on: B.G. Williams. (March 2011). Counter Terrorism Centre Sentinel. Accuracy of the U.S.Drone Campaign: The Views of a Pakistani General. Retrieved from: http://www.brianglynwilliams.com/pdfs/Williams-nearfinal.pdf Summary of EIC: To gain an understanding as to how majority of the drone strikes are successful in targeting and eliminating the terrorist threat and how civilian injury is minimal. This is also meant to counter the potential exaggeration of statistics the opposing counsel may provide.