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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... -head.html
The mastermind of Barack Obama's secret drone war was chosen on Monday to lead the CIA and "relentlessly" extend its controversial campaign against al-Qaeda into the president's second term.
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What happens to the drone program in Af-Pak if the troops leave Afghanistan?

Drones launched from ships?
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Azrael wrote:What happens to the drone program in Af-Pak if the troops leave Afghanistan?

Drones launched from ships?
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_an ... above.html

Not a problem, how do you think they can fly so many with limited range.
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The failure of the Afghan war suggests that future conflicts against third-world populations that don't have comprehensive air defense will be limited to drones exclusively. There will be drones over Afghanistan and Pakistan for the foreseeable future. The only other option would be to not kill anyone in places like Waziristan, and that is not on the table.
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Classified document that officials have described as a “playbook.” - targeted-killing operations


A senior U.S. official involved in drafting the document said that a few issues remain unresolved but described them as minor. The senior U.S. official said the playbook “will be done shortly.”

The adoption of a formal guide to targeted killing marks a significant — and to some uncomfortable — milestone: the institutionalization of a practice that would have seemed anathema to many before the Sept. 11 , 2001, terrorist attacks.

Among the subjects covered in the playbook are the process for adding names to kill lists, the legal principles that govern when U.S. citizens can be targeted overseas and the sequence of approvals required when the CIA or U.S. military conducts drone strikes outside war zones.

Holly sh*t .. what a disaster .. now, everybody will start targeted killing . and .. sometimes nobody will know who hittin whom

really silly


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UN to probe drone attacks by Israel, U.S. and Britain


Investigation into use of unmanned aerial vehicles for targeted killings follows pressure by Russia, China and Pakistan; Unlike its two allies, Israel not expected to cooperate with the probe.

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Investigation into use of unmanned aerial vehicles for targeted killings follows pressure by Russia, China and Pakistan; Unlike its two allies, Israel not expected to cooperate with the probe.

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http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/172 ... om-the-sky
The film will be among the first (if not the first) narrative works of cinema from the U.S. to show the impact of drone strikes on civilians in the Arab world. The film also explores the roots of extremism and ultimately asks a universal question: When we are harmed, will we take the wide road of retaliation or a more narrow path by responding in life-giving ways?
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I'm starting to think the US is trying to throw this "war on terror" thing.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/0 ... 03108.html
U.S. Drone Strikes In Yemen Spur Growing Anti-American Sentiment
SANAA, Yemen -- The cleric preached in his tiny Yemeni village about the evils of al-Qaida, warning residents to stay away from the group's fighters and their hard-line ideology. The talk worried residents, who feared it would bring retaliation from the militants, and even the cleric's father wanted him to stop.

But in the end it wasn't al-Qaida that killed Sheik Salem Ahmed bin Ali Jaber.

Al-Qaida fighters, who hide in mountain strongholds near the remote eastern village of Khashamir, did call him out, demanding he meet them one night – apparently to intimidate him into stopping his sermons against them.

Sheik Salem felt he had no choice but to meet them, but a cousin who was in the police insisted on accompanying him as protection, according to the cleric's brother-in-law, Faysal bin Ali bin Jaber, who recounted the events to The Associated Press.

"Once they arrived to the car where al-Qaida was, four missiles hit," Faysal said. At home in the village, he heard the blasts – and heard the U.S. drone that struck the cars. "We know the buzzing sound of the drones overhead," he said.

Yemeni security officials confirmed three militants, along with Sheik Salem and his cousin were killed in the strike last August and that it was carried out by an American drone.

In its covert fight against al-Qaida in Yemen, the United States has dramatically stepped up its use of drone strikes the past year, scoring key successes against one of the most active branches of the terror network. With more than 40 strikes reported in 2012 and nine so far this year, Yemen has become the second biggest front in American drone warfare, after Pakistan.

But the escalation has meant more civilians getting caught in the crossfire.

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At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington last week on the drone program, Farea al-Muslimi, a Yemeni whose village had been struck only days earlier, told the senators that drones are "harming efforts to win hearts and minds," saying drones are now "the face of America" to many Yemenis.

"What violent militants had previously failed to achieve, one drone strike achieved in an instant," he said.

Faysal bin Jaber said the strike had deepened the fear in Khashamir.

Sheik Salem had spoken in his sermon "about how killing people and labeling people who work with the West as infidels is wrong," Faysal said.

But after the strike, "everyone who saw that there is no differentiating between us and al-Qaida are asking why don't we just join al-Qaida since it makes no difference?" he said. The cleric's widow – Faysal's sister _now relies on relatives and neighbors for support for herself and her seven children.
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