US Drones

A Drone-Eat-Drone World

Nick Turse | Posted 05.31.2012

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Nick Turse

When the first Terminator movie was released in 1984, its HKs seemed as futuristic as its time-traveling cyborg title-character. Nearly three decades later, we're living in an age in which armed robots do regularly surveil, track, and kill people.

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Nobel Laureate Slams U.S. Drone Strikes

Reuters | Posted 05.31.2012

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DOHA, May 30 (Reuters) - Nobel Peace Prize-winning Yemeni opposition activist Tawakul Karman said on Wednesday U.S. drone strikes were ineffective ...

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U.S. Proposal Would Arm Italy’s Drones

www.nytimes.com | Posted 05.30.2012

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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration plans to arm Italy’s small fleet of Reaper surveillance drones with Hellfire missiles and precision-guided b...

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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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4 Suspected Militants Killed In U.S. Drone Strike

AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 05.23.2012

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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani doctor who helped the U.S. track down Osama bin Laden was convicted of high treason Wednesday and sentenced to...

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Heavy Fighting In Yemen Leaves At Least 32 Dead

Reuters | Posted 05.15.2012

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ADEN, Yemen, May 15 (Reuters) - At least 32 people, including 23 al Qaeda-linked militants were killed in Yemen, officials and reside...

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Oops! Air Force Drones Can Now (Accidentally) Spy On You

Wired | Posted 05.08.2012

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As long as the Air Force pinky-swears it didn’t mean to, its drone fleet can keep tabs on the movements of Americans, far from the battlefields of A...

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DRONE ATTACK: 15 Suspected Militants Reportedly Killed

Reuters | Posted 05.13.2012

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By Saud Mehsud DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan, March 13 (Reuters) - U.S. drone aircraft struck twice in Pakistan's unruly tribal regions ...

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Eric Holder Defends U.S. Killing Of American Citizen

AP | By NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 05.24.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Attorney General Eric Holder said Monday that the decision to kill a U.S. citizen living abroad who poses a terrorist threat "is among t...

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Ramped Up U.S. Drone Strikes Kill 5 Suspected Militants

AP | ISHTIAQ MAHSUD and RASOOL DAWAR | Posted 04.10.2012

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DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — A U.S. drone fired two missiles at a house in Pakistan's northwest tribal region Thursday, killing five suspected m...

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The Undercover Drone

Christopher Brauchli | Posted 04.04.2012

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Christopher Brauchli

Permitting the United States to fly drones wherever it wants is the price a country may have to pay for friendship with the United States. Some countries may think that price too high.

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Suspected Drone Strike Kills 6 Mlitants

Reuters | Posted 03.13.2012

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(Updates death toll) By Haji Mujtaba MIRANSHAH, Pakistan, Jan 12 (Reuters) - A second drone strike in two days killed s...

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U.S. Reportedly Launches First Drone In Pakistan In 6 Weeks

AP | By LOLITA C. BALDOR and RASOOL DAWAR | Posted 03.12.2012

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BANNU, Pakistan -- An American drone strike killed four Islamist militants in Pakistan, the first such attack since errant U.S airstrikes in November ...

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4-Year-Old Mutilated By U.S. Drone Attack To Receive Reconstructive Surgery

Posted 12.27.2011

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Shakira was one-year-old when she was found severely burned and near death in a trash can in Pakistan's Swat Valley. The girl had been left to die aft...

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The Drone, the Secretary and the Seven Dwarfs

Christopher Brauchli | Posted 02.22.2012

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Christopher Brauchli

Since none of the proposals to retrieve the American drone in Iran had a chance of success, it's a good thing that the Secretary chose to simply request the return of the drone. The request did not start a war.

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The Drone That Fell From the Sky

Nick Turse | Posted 02.19.2012

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Nick Turse

The recent losses of the Pentagon's robot Sentinel in Iran, the Reaper in the Seychelles, and the Predator in Kandahar offer a window into a future in which the global skies will be filled with drones that may prove far less wondrous than Americans have been led to believe.

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Iran Reportedly Delayed Announcement On Downed U.S. Drone

AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 02.16.2012

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TEHRAN, Iran — Iran deliberately delayed its announcement that it had captured an American surveillance drone to test U.S. reaction, the country...

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Iran Demands Afghanistan Cancel US Drone Flights

AP | Posted 02.14.2012

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TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's foreign minister demanded Thursday that Afghanistan stop allowing the U.S. to use bases in the country to launch drone fli...

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Despite Lost Drone, Panetta Says Intel Operations Will Continue

AP | By LOLITA C. BALDOR | Posted 12.14.2011

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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says the U.S. will continue to conduct intelligence operations like the recent one that led to th...

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Why Drones Could End up Being Good for Privacy Law

Ryan Calo | Posted 02.12.2012

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Ryan Calo

Drones are simply too effective, too cost efficient, for police, firefighters, and even the private sector to ignore. So why isn't the sky already filled with drones?

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U.S. Drone Killed American Troops After String Of Missteps

latimes.com | Posted 01.06.2012

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Though no dereliction of duty was found, a Pentagon investigation raised troubling questions: Among them: Was the Predator missile fired too quickly?...

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Suspected U.S. Drone Kills Powerful Pakistani Commander

AP | ISHTIAQ MAHSUD | Posted 12.27.2011

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DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Two American drone strikes hours apart destroyed a hideout in Taliban strongholds in Pakistan's rugged tribal regio...

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An Expanding War in Pakistan

Tom Hayden | Posted 12.12.2011

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Tom Hayden

The drones do not make America safer. They inevitably provoke blowback. They are not a way of waging war cheaply. They require massive investments in client states and "nation-building" on the ground. They kill people, but no victories are won from the air.

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Reports: Suspected U.S. Drone Kills 4 In Pakistan

AP | RASOOL DAWAR | Posted 10.16.2011

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DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — A suspected U.S. drone fired missiles at a house in northwest Pakistan before dawn Tuesday, killing four militants ...

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The Assassination President?

Feisal G. Mohamed | Posted 09.18.2011

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Feisal G. Mohamed

If George W. Bush was the torture president, Barack Obama's pet human rights violation is extrajudicial killing.

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