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Pakistan Drone Strikes

American Killed By Drone Was Arrested By Pakistan In 2008

AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 05.23.2013 | World

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — An American citizen killed in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan in 2011 was arrested by Pakistani authorities three years ear...

Reevaluating the Usefulness of Predator Drone Strikes: A Bostonian Perspective

Brian Glyn Williams | Posted 05.08.2013 | World
Brian Glyn Williams

While there is no such thing as an excusable killing of a civilian, these statistics, and the constant pressure to prevent further terror acts on American soil, somewhat mitigate the harm caused by the CIA's controversial drone assassination campaign.

U.S. Drone Strikes Causing Mental Health Crisis In Pakistan

Agence France Presse | Guillaume Lavallee | Posted 04.09.2013 | World

After nine friends and relatives were killed in a US drone strike four years ago, Mohammed Fahim took tranquillisers to blot out the nightmares.The 19...

Drones: An Outlier In A Transparent Presidency

Sarah Holewinski | Posted 03.18.2013 | Politics
Sarah Holewinski

Who is targeted, why, how and what civilian protection measures are put in place are unknown to anyone but a tight inner circle of policy makers -- an about-face for a president who pledged a transparent government in his first term. And Congress is following his lead.

The Truth About Obama's Drone Campaign: It's About Attrition, Not Decapitation

Alexander B. Downes | Posted 03.18.2013 | Politics
Alexander B. Downes

Drone strikes are mostly killing low-level Pakistani militants, not al Qaeda leaders. This strategy is unlikely to cause the collapse of al Qaeda or even the Pakistani Taliban and may have counterproductive effects. Obama's second term may therefore require new thinking on drones.

David Wood

Cheap And Deadly, U.S. Drones Ignite Global Arms Race In Unmanned Strike Weapons

HuffingtonPost.com | David Wood | Posted 11.27.2012 | World

WASHINGTON -- The drone wars are here. While President Obama ponders new legal and moral guidelines to govern America's growing use of armed robot ...

Mr. President: How Do You Define Precise?

Robert Greenwald | Posted 01.18.2013 | World
Robert Greenwald

Currently in Pakistan filming with victims of drone attacks, I have never had a more haunting and harrowing experience than looking into the eyes of person after person, and hearing them talk about their homes, villages and families destroyed by drone attacks.

When a Drone Flies Over Waziristan, Does It Make a Sound?

Robert Naiman | Posted 10.17.2012 | World
Robert Naiman

"The U.S. missile-attacks destroy militant training compounds and cars but they also hit mosques, homes, religious schools and civilian vehicles. I witnessed the fear, stress and depression this causes for the tribal communities on a visit to the region in May."

Why I'm Going to Pakistan: Under Scrutiny, the Drone Strike Policy Will Fall

Robert Naiman | Posted 11.28.2012 | World
Robert Naiman

Most Democrats want to get U.S. troops the hell out of Afghanistan (outside of Official Washington, most Republicans agree.) But, the story goes, these Democrats have to have an "alternative," and the "alternative" is drone strikes.

4 Suspected Pakistani Militants Killed By U.S. Missiles

AP | MUNIR AHMED | Posted 09.22.2012 | World

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistani intelligence officials say a U.S. drone has fired two missiles at a vehicle in northwest Pakistan, killing four suspected milit...

Drones and Collateral Damage

Azeem Ibrahim | Posted 09.04.2012 | World
Azeem Ibrahim

As public opinion in Pakistan increasingly sees the U.S. as an enemy and not an ally, President Obama should assert his moral authority regarding the drone program and restore the human element to the use of military force.

Drone Strikes Kill 4 Suspected Militants In Pakistan

AP | ISHTIAQ MAHSUD | Posted 08.26.2012 | World

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Pakistani intelligence officials say a U.S. drone has fired two missiles at a house in northwest Pakistan, killing ...

Clinton Defends Drone Strikes

Reuters | Posted 08.07.2012 | World

By Arshad Mohammed ISTANBUL, June 7 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday implicitly defended Washington's u...

Pakistan Slams Spike In Drone Strikes

Posted 08.04.2012 | World

ISLAMABAD, June 4 (Reuters) - Pakistan on Monday strongly condemned a jump in U.S. drone strikes on its territory, using language that could increas...

Suspected Drone Strike Kills 6 Mlitants

Reuters | Posted 03.13.2012 | World

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

Drone Strikes Imperil U.S.-Pakistan Ties

nytimes.com | JANE PERLEZ | Posted 06.18.2011 | World

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The differences between the United States and Pakistan that broke into the open last week over the scale of C.I.A. operations h...

Sam Stein

Carl Levin Wants To Expand Drone Strikes In Pakistan

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

The top Senate Democrat on defense issues said on Tuesday that he would like to see an expansion of the U.S. military's controversial drone-strike ope...