US Drone Attacks

Who Commands America's Killer Drones?

AP | KIMBERLY DOZIER | Posted 05.23.2012

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WASHINGTON -- White House counterterror chief John Brennan has seized the lead in guiding the debate on which terror leaders will be targeted for dron...

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Remotely Piloted War

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 04.24.2012

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Tom Engelhardt

Think about it: What does a drone do? Like a modern car factory, it replaces a pilot, a skilled job that takes significant training, with robotics and a degraded version of the same job outsourced elsewhere.

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Pakistan: Drone Attacks Are Wrong, Regardless

Ethan Casey | Posted 09.18.2011

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Ethan Casey

Drone attacks are wrong. I'm sure to be called an appeaser of terrorists for saying that, particularly in light of the latest events in Mumbai. But I ...

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The Road From Abbottabad Leads to Lame Analysis

C. Christine Fair | Posted 08.21.2011

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C. Christine Fair

Navigating this strained relationship under the pressures of reality is hard enough. However, accounts like that of Hitchens and others here and in Pakistan, dims the prospects for salvaging a relationship that is extremely important for the United States.

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Pakistani Officials: U.S. Drone Strike Kills At Least 5 Along Afghanistan Border

AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 07.11.2011

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SHABQADAR, Pakistan — Twin explosions struck a paramilitary training center in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing at least 68 people &ndas...

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U.S. Missiles Kill Multiple People In Pakistan Tribal Region

AP | CHRIS BRUMMITT | Posted 06.21.2011

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ISLAMABAD — U.S. missiles killed 25 people in an al-Qaida and Taliban sanctuary close to the Afghan border on Friday, Pakistani officials said, ...

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Taking the War Out of Air War: What U.S. Air Power Actually Does

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tom Engelhardt

U.S. air power is a form of warfare which guarantees the American side quite literal, godlike invulnerability. Can it be war if one side is never in danger?

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Obama's Escalating Robot War in Pakistan Is Making a Terror Attack More Likely

Johann Hari | Posted 05.25.2011

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Johann Hari

This robot slaughter drags us into a terrible feedback loop, where the US launches more drone attacks to deal with jihadism, which makes jihadism worse, which prompts more drone attacks, which makes jihadism worse -- and on and on.

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US Drone Attacks In Pakistan Have More Than Tripled Under Obama

BBC News | Posted 05.25.2011

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Missile attacks by US drones in Pakistan's tribal areas have more than trebled under the Obama administration, research by the BBC Urdu service shows...

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Pakistan: Al-Qaida Commanders Killed In US Strikes

AP | MUNIR AHMAD and CHRIS BRUMMITT | Posted 05.25.2011

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ISLAMABAD — U.S. missiles are believed to have killed an al-Qaida operations chief and a top Uzbek militant in northwest Pakistan, officials sai...

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U.S. Missile Kills 4 In Pakistan; 18 Die In Stampede

AP | RASOOL DAWAR | Posted 05.25.2011

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MIR ALI, Pakistan — A missile fired from a suspected unmanned U.S. drone slammed into a car in a Pakistani tribal region close to the Afghan bor...

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More Deaths In Pakistan Drone Attacks

Al Jazeera English | Posted 05.25.2011

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At least 10 people have been killed after a suspected US drone fired missiles into Pakistan's North Waziristan region, Pakistani intelligence has said...

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Suspected US Missile Strike Kills 12 In Pakistan

Al Jazeera English | Posted 05.25.2011

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At least 12 people have been killed in a suspected US missile strike on a training camp run by Baitullah Mehsud, the Pakistani Taliban leader, in Sout...

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Pakistan Asks US To End Missile Attacks

AP | RYAN LUCAS | Posted 05.25.2011

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ISLAMABAD — Officials say a suicide bomber has killed at least two soldiers in the Pakistani part of Kashmir. Two security officials said the a...

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Suspected US Drone Attack Kills 40 At A Funeral In Pakistan

Al Jazeera English | Posted 05.25.2011

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A suspected US drone attack on a stronghold of a Pakistani Taliban leader has killed at least 40 people and wounded dozens more in northwest Pakistan,...

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Pakistan: Suspected US Missile Strikes Kill 8

AP | ROHAN SULLIVAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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ISLAMABAD — Suspected U.S. missiles pounded militant hideouts Thursday in the tribal belt near Afghanistan where Pakistani troops are building u...

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