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The Costs of Drone Strikes

Lisa Schirch | Posted 10.13.2009 | World

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Lisa Schirch

No matter the outcome of President Obama's deliberations about US strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the tactic of using unmanned drone strikes should be taken off the table.

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War of the Worlds: London, 1898; Kabul, 2009

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

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Tom Engelhardt

The US may now be represented in the Afghan countryside, mainly by Predators and their even more powerful cousins, Reapers, unmanned aerial vehicles with names straight out of a sci-fi film about implacable aliens.

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Ilyas Kashmiri And Nazimuddin, Militant Leaders, Killed By U.S. Strikes, Says Pakistan

AP | MUNIR AHMAD and CHRIS BRUMMITT | Posted 11.17.2009 | World

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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 11.14.2009 | World

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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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Pakistan Drone Attacks Kill At Least 10

Al Jazeera English | Posted 11.08.2009 | World

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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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Pakistan Drone Attack Secrecy Hides Abuses

Inter Press Service | Posted 07.13.2009 | World

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By Gareth Porter | Inter Press Service WASHINGTON, Jun 12 (IPS) - The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's refusal to share with other agencies even ...

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Pakistan Drone Attacks Guided By Planted 'Chips'

Wired | Posted 07.02.2009 | World

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It sounds like a tinfoil hat nightmare, come to life: tiny electronic homing beacons, guiding CIA killer drones to their targets. But local residents ...

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Pakistan: US Drone Attacks Weaken Government's Hold

Inter Press Service | Gareth Porter | Posted 05.16.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON, Apr 15 (IPS) - The U.S. programme of drone aircraft strikes against higher-ranking officials of al Qaeda and allied militant organisati...

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Obama Continuing 'Robot War' In Pakistan

Wired | Posted 04.26.2009 | World

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Washington and Islamabad are "drawing up a fresh list of terrorist targets for Predator drone strikes" in Pakistan, according to the Wall Street Journ...

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Suspected US Drone Attack Kills 6 In Pakistan

Dawn | Posted 04.25.2009 | World

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WANA: Six foreign militants were killed in a suspected US drone strike in South Waziristan, television reports quoted sources as saying on Wednesday....

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Pakistani Casualties In U.S. Drone Strike Rises

AFP | Posted 04.13.2009 | World

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The number killed in a suspected US missile strike in northwest Pakistan rose to 24 on Friday, most of them Taliban militants, according to local offi...

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The Imperial Unconscious

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 04.05.2009 | Politics

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Tom Engelhardt

We don't find it strange to have 16 intelligence agencies, running "covert wars" in tribal borderlands, flying unmanned drones over those borderlands, destroying those in camera view.

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Feinstein Reveals Intel That May Embarrass Pakistan

Los Angeles Times | Posted 03.16.2009 | Politics

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A senior U.S. lawmaker said Thursday that unmanned CIA Predator aircraft operating in Pakistan are flown from an air base in that country, a revelatio...

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Us Air Force's New "Killer Zombie" Drone

Wired | David Hambling | Posted 11.04.2008 | Home

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Armed Predator and Reaper drones have become the primary weapons in the fight against Pakistani militants. But they can be pricey; the Reapers come i...

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