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94. Mark Landler, “Civilian Deaths Due to Drones Are Not Many, Obama Says,” New York Times, January 31, 2012.
95. Geoffrey Ingersoll, “Obama Finally Opens Up about the Massive Drone War,” Business Insider, September 12, 2012.
96. Ken Dilanian, “Congress Zooms in on Drone Killings,” Los Angeles Times, June 25, 2012, http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jun/25/nation/la-na-drone-oversight-20120625/2.
97. Greg Miller, “Brennan Defends Drone Strike Policy,” Washington Post, February 7, 2013.
98. Scott Wilson, “Obama Nominates Chuck Hagel for Defense, John Brennan for CIA,” Washington Post, January 27, 2013.
99. Andrew Lebovich, “Daily Brief: Officials Question Drone Strike Timing—Report,” AfPak Channel, Foreign Policy, August 3, 2011, http://afpak.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/08/03/daily_brief_officials_question_drone_strike_timing_report.
100. Tara Mckelevey, “Inside the Killing Machine,” Newsweek, February 13, 2011.
101. Shane, “CIA Is Disputed.”
102. Brian Mockenhaupt, “We’ve Seen the Future and Its Unmanned,” Esquire, October 14, 2009.
103. Ken Dilanian, “CIA Drones May Be Avoiding Pakistani Civilians,” Los Angeles Times, February 22, 2011.
104. Craig Whitlock and Greg Miller, “U.S. Covert Paramilitary Presence in Afghanistan Much Larger than Thought,” Washington Post, September 22, 2011.
105. Robin Wright and Joby Warrick, “U.S. Steps Up Unilateral Strikes in Pakistan,” Washington Post, March 27, 2008.
106. Woodward, Obama’s Wars, 6.
107. Rosenberg, Gorman, and Solomon, “Pakistan Lends Support.”
108. Nathan Hodge, “US Sharing Predator Video with Afghanistan, Pakistan,” Danger Room (blog), Wired, November 19, 2008, http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2008/11/in-a-presentati/.
109. Haq Nawaz Khan, “Rising Drone Attacks Hint at Strengthened CIA Spy Network in Waziristan,” Pakistan Today, October 11, 2010.
110. “New Al Qaeda Book on ‘Muslim Spies’ Paints Picture of Weakened Group, Experts Say,” Fox News, July 9, 2009, http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,531161,00.html.
111. “Jihadist Website Posts Al Libi’s ‘Guidance on the Ruling of the Muslim Spy,’” Open Source Center, June 30, 2009, http://www.fas.org/irp/dni/osc/libi.pdf.
112. Ibid.
113. Adam Rawnsley, “CIA Drone Targeting Tech Revealed, Qaeda Claims,” Danger Room (blog), Wired, July 8, 2009, http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/07/infrared-beacons-guiding-cia-drone-strikes-qaeda-claims/.
114. Declan Walsh, “Mysterious ‘Chip’ Is CIA’s Latest Weapon against Al-Qaida Targets Hiding in Pakistan’s Tribal Belt,” Guardian, May 31, 2009.
115. Rawnsley, “CIA Drone Targeting Tech Revealed.”
116. Sami Yousafzai, “Predators on the Hunt in Pakistan,” Newsweek, June 30, 2009.
117. “Al Qaeda Admits US Drone Attacks Working,” CBS News, July 10, 2009.
118. Yousafzai, “Predators on the Hunt in Pakistan.”
119. Bill Roggio, “Taliban Execute Four ‘Spies’ in Pakistan’s Northwest,” Long War Journal, February 5, 2011, http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2011/02/taliban_execute_4_sp.php.
120. Anthony Loyd, “US Drone Strikes in Pakistan Tribal Areas Boost Support for Taliban,” Times, March 10, 2010.
121. Zia Khan, “Taliban Create Cell to Hunt ‘Spies’ Assisting US Drones,” Express Tribune, March 28, 2011.
122. Zia Ur Rehman, “The Khurusan Mujahideen Seek to Eliminate Espionage in Waziristan,” Terrorism Monitor 9, no. 13 (April 1, 2011): 3–5.
123. Bill Roggio, “Taliban Execute 4 Tribesmen ‘Spying for America’ in North Waziristan,” Long War Journal, March 1, 2011, http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2011/03/taliban_execute_4_tr.php.
124. David Rohde, “The Drone War,” Reuters Magazine, January 17, 2012.
125. Joby Warrick and Peter Finn, “Amid Outrage over Civilian Deaths in Pakistan, CIA Turns to Smaller Missiles,” Washington Post, April 26, 2010.
126. Lockheed Martin, “Lockheed Martin’s Scorpion Successful in Test Flight,” news release, June 21, 2010, http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/news/press-releases/2010/june/LockheedMartinsSCORPIONSu.html.
127. Steve Emerson, “In Defense of Drones: The ACLU Tries to Take Away an Effective and Humane Tool in the US Arsenal,” New York Post, October 16, 2010.
128. “Drones in Pakistan: Out of the Blue,” Economist, July 30, 2011.
129. Indo-Asian News Service, “Human Intelligence Aids Drone Attacks in Pakistan,” India-Forums, December 30, 2010, http://www.india-forums.com/news/pakistan/301035-human-intelligence-aid-drone-attacks-in-pakistan.htm.
130. “Ten More Killed in NWA Drone Attacks,” PakTribune, March 18, 2010, http://paktribune.com/news/10-more-killed-in-NWA-drone-attacks-225651.html.
131. David Rohde and Kristen Mulvihill, A Rope and a Prayer: A Kidnapping from Two Sides (New York: Viking, 2010), 182, 239.
132. Salman Masood and Pir Zubair Shah, “CIA Drones Kill Civilians in Pakistan,” New York Times, March 17, 2011.
133. Christine Fair, “Drones over Pakistan—Menace or Best Viable Option?” The Blog (blog), Huffington Post, August 2, 2010, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/c-christine-fair/drones-over-pakistan——m_b_666721.html.
134. Karen De Young, “US Officials Cite Gains against Al Qaeda in Pakistan,” Washington Post, June 1, 2009.
135. Lister, “WikiLeaks: Pakistan Quietly Approved.”
136. Walsh, “Mysterious ‘Chip.’”
137. “Good Riddance.”
138. Talat Masood, “Analysis: Time for a Rethink,” Daily Times, November 27, 2008.
139. Zar ali Khan Musazai, “Drone Is an Anti-Terrorist Weapon, Mr. Nawaz Sharif,” January 30, 2010, Global Hujra, http://www.khyberwatch.com/forums/showthread.php?8101-analysis-Drone-attacks-challenging-some-fabrications-Farhat-Taj&p=85459.
140. Fair, “Drones over Pakistan.”
141. Farhat Taj, “Drone Attacks: Pakistan’s Policy and the Tribesmen’s Perspective,” Terrorism Monitor 8, no. 10 (March 11, 2010): 8–10.
142. Nick Schifrin. “US Drones Strike with Deadly Accuracy,” ABC News, November 19, 2008, http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=6289748&page=1.
143. Omar Waraich, “US Deaths in Pakistan Fuel Suspicion,” Time, February 5, 2010.
144. “Pakistani Drone Victim Seeks to Put US on Trial,” Dawn, December 23, 2010.
145. Farhat Taj, “Drone Attacks: Challenging Some Fabrications,” Daily Times, January 2, 2010.
146. Zahir Sherzai, “Most of Those Killed in Drone Attacks Were Terrorists: Military,” Dawn, March 9, 2011.
147. “Drone Attacks,” Dawn, March 11, 2011, http://www.dawn.com/2011/03/11/drone-attacks-3.html.
148. “Pakistan: The State of the Nation,” Al Jazeera, August 13, 2009, http://www.aljazeera.com/focus/2009/08/2009888238994769.html.
149. “60 Drone Hits Kill 14 Al-Qaeda Men, 687 Civilians,” News, April 10, 2009.
150. “Over 700 Killed in 44 Drone Strikes in 2009,” Dawn, January 2, 2010.
151. Brian Glyn Williams, Matthew Fricker, and Avery Plaw, “New Light on the Accuracy of the CIA’s Predator Drone Campaign in Pakistan,” Terrorism Monitor 8, no. 41 (November 11, 2010): 8–13.
152. Bergen and Tiedemann, Year of the Drone.
153. Roggio and Mayer, “Charting the Data for US Airstrikes in Pakistan.”
154. Dexter Filkins, “Will Bin Laden’s Death Alter U.S. Military Operations?” Morning Edition, National Public Radio, May 3, 2011, http://www.npr.org/2011/05/03/135941583/will-bin-laden-s-death-alter-u-s-military-operations.
155. Shahid Saeed, “Demystifying the Drone, Part I,” Daily Times, October 27, 2010.
156. Taj, “Drone Attacks: Challenging Some Fabrications.”
157. Bashir Ahmad Gwakh, “Drones, Pakistan Has No Leg to Stand On,” Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, September 22, 2010, http://www.rferl.org/content/pakistan_commentary_drone_strikes/24336736.html.
159. Doyle McManus, “US Drone Attacks in Pakistan ‘Backfiring’ Congress Told,” Los Angeles Times, May 3, 2009.
160. “Sami for Greater Alliance to Stop Drones,” Nation (Pakistan), March 8, 2011.
161. “Drone Attacks in Pakistan,” BuzzPK.
162. Tariq Saeed, “Drone Strikes Kill 6 in NWA,” Pakistan Observer, March 12, 2011, http://pakobserver.net/detailnews.asp?id=80509.
163. Pakistan Body Count, http://www.pakistanbodycount.org/ (accessed December 2012).
164. Sharon Weinberger, “Pakistani Scholar Disputes US Drone Death Tallies,” AOL News, May 19, 2010, http://www.aolnews.com/2010/05/19/pakistani-scholar-disputes-low-drone-death-tallies/.
165. “US Drones Killed 957 Civilians in 2010,” Irish Sun, April 14, 2010.
166. Daniel Byman, Do Targeted Killings Work? (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, July 14, 2009), http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2009/0714_targeted_killings_byman.aspx.
167. “Cindy Sheehan: CIA Actions Killing Innocent People,” YouTube video, 5:24, posted by Russia Today, January 15, 2010, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3QumrijBIk.
168. Murray Wardrop, “Unmanned Drones Could Be Banned, Says Senior Judge,” Telegraph, July 6, 2009.
169. Ted Rall, “US Drone Planes Have a Nearly Perfect Record of Failure,” Common Dreams, January 18, 2006, http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0118-32.htm.
170. Brenda Norell, “Facebook Deletes Cindy Sheehan’s Invite to CIA Drone Protest,” Narcosphere, January 3, 2010, http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/brenda-norrell/2010/01/facebook-deletes-cindy-sheehans-invite-cia-drone-protest.
8. SPIES, LAWYERS, TERRORISTS, AND SECRET BASES
1. Anwar Iqbal, “US Official Says Drones Using Pakistan Base,” Dawn, February 14, 2009.
2. Greg Miller, “Feinstein Comment on U.S. Drones Likely to Embarrass Pakistan,” Los Angeles Times, February 13, 2009.
3. “Pakistan Embassy in Washington Says No Foreign Bases in Country,” Associated Press of Pakistan, February 15, 2009, http://www.app.com.pk/en_/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=68096&Itemid=1.
4. “Pak Bases Not Being Used Says Mukhtar,” Daily Times, February 14, 2009.
5. Tom Coghlan, Zahid Hussain, and Jeremy Page, “Secrecy and Denial as Pakistan Lets CIA Use Airbase to Strike Militants,” Times, February 17, 2009.
6. Iqbal, “US Official Says Drones Using Pakistan Base.”
7. Shireen Mazari, “Pakistan’s Complicity in Drone Attacks,” News, February 15, 2009.
8. James Risen and Mark Mazzetti, “CIA Said to Use Outsiders to Put Bombs on Drones,” New York Times, August 20, 2009.
9. Declan Walsh, “Pakistan Orders US out of Drone Base,” Guardian, June 30, 2011.
10. “Pakistani Shooting Exposes Spy War,” Australian, February 28, 2011.
11. “Probe Finds Connection between Davis, Drone Attacks,” Dawn, February 18, 2011; Declan Walsh and Ewan MacAskill, “American Who Sparked Diplomatic Crises over Lahore Shooting Was CIA Spy,” Guardian, February 20, 2011.
12. “Pakistani Shooting Exposes Spy War.”
13. Jawad Awan, “Davis, CIA’s Acting Chief in Pakistan,” Nation, February 21, 2011.
14. Walsh and MacAskill, “American Who Sparked Diplomatic Crises.”
15. Ibid.
16. “Munter Was Overruled on Halting Drone Strike,” Express Tribune, August 3, 2011.
17. “Death Toll Reaches 44 in Drone Attack,” AAJ News, March 18, 2011, http://www.aaj.tv/2011/03/death-toll-reaches-44-in-drone-attack/.
18. Salman Masood and Pir Zubair Shah, “CIA Drones Kill Civilians in Pakistan,” New York Times, March 17, 2011.
19. “Pakistan, Calls for Revenge after Drone Kills 40,” BBC, March 8, 2011, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-12784675.
20. Ibid.
21. “General Kayani Strongly Condemns Predator Strike,” Geo.TV, March 17, 2011.
22. Associated Press, “US Pakistan Relations Increasingly Strained,” Dawn, March 18, 2011, http://dawn.com/2011/03/18/us-pakistan-relationship-increasingly-strained/.
23. Munir Ahmed, “Pakistan Cancels US-Afghan Talks after Drone Strike,” Huffington Post, March 18, 2011.
24. “US Intends to Step Up Drone Strikes,” New York Times, April 9, 2009.
25. Gillmor, “Suicide Blast Kills 42 Pakistani Soldiers.”
26. “Times Square Terrorism Suspect Angry over US Drones,” MSNBC, May 10, 2010.
27. Aaron Katersky, “Faisal Shahzad Pleads Guilty in Times Square Car Bomb Plot, Warns of More Attacks,” ABC, June 21, 2010, http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/faisal-shahzad-pleads-guilty-times-square-car-bomb/story?id=10970094.
28. William Dalrymple, “Why Are the Taliban Winning in Afghanistan?” New Statesman, June 22, 2010.
29. Benjamin Weiser and Colin Moynihan, “A Guilty Plea in Plot to Bomb Times Square,” New York Times, June 22, 2010.
30. “Pakistan Taliban Claim New York Bomb Attempt,” Pkaffairs.com, http://www.pkaffairs.com/news.aspx?pageId=5278 (accessed December 2012).
31. Sami Yousufzai, “Pakistan Taliban Source: Times Square Bombing Attempt Was ‘Revenge against America,’” Newsweek, May 10, 2010.
32. David Sanger, “US Pressure Helps Militants Focus Efforts,” New York Times, May 7, 2010.
33. Anqoinette Crosby and Greg Miller, “CIA Shifts Focus to Killing Targets,” Washington Post, August 30, 2011.
34. Zahid Hussain, “Attacker of CIA Is Linked to Taliban,” Wall Street Journal, January 11, 2010.
35. “CIA Bomber Shown Vowing Revenge,” BBC News, January 9, 2010, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8449875.stm.
36. Scott Shane and Eric Schmitt, “C.I.A. Deaths Prompt Surge in U.S. Drone Strikes,” New York Times, January 22, 2010.
37. “Pakistan Tribesman to Sue CIA over Drone Deaths,” Agence France-Presse, November 29, 2010.
38. Amir Mir, “A Revolving CIA Door in Pakistan,” Asia Times, August 5, 2011.
39. Reza Sayah, “Pakistani Man Sues US over Drone Strikes,” CNN, December 2, 2010, http://articles.cnn.com/2010-12-01/world/pakistan.drone.attack.lawsuit_1_drone-strike-drone-attacks-innocent-victims.
40. “Pakistani Role Suspected in Revealing US Spy’s Name,” New York Times, December 17, 2010.
41. Sayah, “Pakistani Man Sues US.”
42. Code Pink, “San Diegans to Protest Predator Drone Makers and General Atomics CEO’s Home,” press release, May 17, 2010, http://www.codepink4peace.org/article.php?id=5418.
43. Cindy Sheehan, “First Protest against CIA Drone Attacks Coming to Langley, Virginia,” Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox (blog), http://www.cindysheehanssoapbox.com/peacePage.html.
44. Farhan Bokhari, “Anti-Drone Protestors Blocked from Target, but Still Push Message,” CBS News, October 8, 2012, http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57527806/anti-drone-protesters-blocked-from-target-but-still-push-message/.
45. Tanver Ahmed, “Drone Attacks in Violation of International Laws,” Daily Times, October 3, 2012.
46. Deborah Dupre, “Drones Kill Kids: Occupy DC Rights Defenders Shut Museum with Drone Exhibit,” Examiner.com, October 8, 2011, http://www.examiner.com/article/drones-kill-kids-occupy-d-c-rights-defenders-shut-museum-with-drone-exhibit.
47. “Drone Protests Lead to Arrests at Tucson’s Raytheon Missile Systems,” Warisacrime.org, October 4, 2011, http://warisacrime.org/content/drone-protest-leads-arrest-tucsons-raytheon-missile-systems.
48. Ibid.
49. Dave Tobin, “37 People Who Protest at Hancock Air Base Near Syracuse against the Use of Drones Are Arrested on Friday,” Syracuse.com, April 22, 2011, http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2011/04/war_protestors_arrested_at_han.html.
50. “Drone Debate: Are Remotely Controlled Weapons Ethical,” Syracuse.com, December 13, 2009, http://blog.syracuse.com/opinion/2009/12/drone_debate_are_remotely_cont.html.
51.
Victoria Ross, “Use of Drones Is Both Immoral and Counterproductive,” Buffalonews.com, November 2, 2010, http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-26088616.html.
52. Denis Kucinich, “Drones Direct Hit upon Rule of Law,” Daily Kos, August 17, 2011, http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/08/17/1007855/-Drones-Direct-Hit-upon-Rule-of-Law.
53. Peter Singer, “Do Drones Undermine Democracy?” New York Times, January 21, 2012.
54. “Flight of the Drones,” Economist, October 8, 2011.
55. Shane, “CIA to Expand Use of Drones in Pakistan.”
56. Cassandra Vinograd, “UK Police Arrest 22 in Anti-Drone Demonstration,” Salon, December 2, 2011.
57. “Occupy DC: No to Drone Strikes,” Dawn, October 11, 2011.
58. Ian Harris, “Why Sci-Fi Weapons Don’t Make Us Safer,” CounterPunch, September 13, 2011, http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/09/13/drone-warfare/.
59. Ibid.
60. Edith M. Lederer, “UN Investigator Warns Use of Drones May Violate International Law,” CNS News, October 28, 2009, http://cnsnews.com/news/article/un-investigator-warns-us-use-drones-may-violate-international-law.
61. “US Use of Drones Queried by UN,” New York Times, October 27, 2009.
62. Harold Hongju Koh, “The Obama Administration and International Law” (speech, Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law, Washington, DC, March 25, 2010), http://www.state.gov/s/l/releases/remarks/139119.htm.
63. “UN Special Rappateur Philip Alston Responds to US Defense of Drone Attacks’ Legality,” Democracy Now, April 10, 2010, http://www.democracynow.org/2010/4/1/drones.
64. “Defending Drones: The Laws of War and the Right to Self Defense,” Washington Post, April 13, 2010, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/12/AR2010041204086.html.
65. James Meek, “Fort Hood Gunman Nadal Hasan ‘Is a Hero,’” Daily News, November 9, 2009.
66. Lauren Frayer, “Times Square Suspect Reportedly Inspired by Radical Cleric,” AOLNews.com, May 7, 2010, http://www.aolnews.com/2010/05/07/shahzad-reportedly-inspired-by-al-awlaki/.
67. Mark Mazzeti, Eric Schmitt, and Robert F. Worth, “American Born Al Qaeda Leader Is Killed by Missile in Yemen,” New York Times, September 30, 2011, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/01/world/middleeast/anwar-al-awlaki-is-killed-in-yemen.html.