in 2011, failed in his attempt to hold British intelligence officials of the GCHQ responsible for the killing because the court ruled that even considering Khan's claims would involve "sitting in judgment" on the US, The Guardian reported.28 year-old Noor Khan's father was a tribal elder who died during a strike on a local council meeting in North Wazoo.
Khan claimed at a British court of appeal that the staff of Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) -- an intelligence and security organization -- were to blame for the death because they had passed on "locational intelligence" to the CIA before the attack.
"However the claims are presented, they involve serious criticisms of the acts of a foreign state," the three court of appeal judges concluded. "It is only in certain established circumstances that our courts will exceptionally sit in judgment of such acts. There are no such exceptional circumstances here."
The court would have to find the CIA implicitly guilty of a war crime before it could consider whether GCHQ had been involved, the court said.
Responding to the ruling, Kat Craig, a human rights
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worker supporting Khan, said: "It is shameful that the risk of embarrassing the US has trumped British justice in this case.