68. Carol Williams, “Awlaki’s Death Rekindles Debate on Targeting Americans,” Los Angeles Times, September 30, 2011.
69. “Awlaki Trained Suspected Christmas Jet Bomber How to Detonate Underwear, Document Reveals,” Fox News, October 4, 2011, http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/10/04/al-awlaki-trained-suspected-christmas-day-jet-bomber-how-to-detonate-underwear/; Ken Dilanian. “US Says Cleric Slain by Drone in Yemen Aided in Airliner Plot,” Los Angeles Times, February 11, 2012.
70. Thomas Joscelyn, “Awlaki’s Emails to Terror Plotter Show Operational Role,” Long War Journal, March 2, 2011, http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2011/03/anwar_al_awlakis_ema.php.
71. Charlie Savage, “Secret Memo Made Legal Case to Kill a Citizen,” New York Times, October 9, 2011.
72. “US Argument for Legal Drone Strikes Revealed,” Al Jazeera, February 6, 2013, http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2013/02/20132517311796860.html.
73. “Fiery American-Born Qaeda Militant Is Killed in Yemen by CIA Strike,” New York Times, October 1, 2010.
74. Scott Shane, “US Approval of Killing of Cleric Causes Unease,” New York Times, May 13, 2010.
75. Ibid.
76. “The Drone Wars: Weapons Like the Predator Kill Far Fewer Civilians,” Wall Street Journal, January 9, 2010.
77. Emerson, “In Defense of Drones.”
78. Terry Frieden, “Judge Throws Out Assassination Lawsuit,” CNN, December 7, 2010, http://articles.cnn.com/2010-12-07/us/lawsuit.al.awlaki_1_case-on-procedural-grounds-bates-courts.
79. ACLU, “ACLU Seeks Information on Predator Drone Program,” press release, March 16, 2010, http://www.aclu.org/national-security/aclu-seeks-information-predator-drone-program.
80. Dominic Rushe, Chris McGreal, Jason Burke, and Luke Harding, “Anwar al-Awlaki Death: US Keeps Role under Wraps to Manage Yemen Fallout,” Guardian, September 30, 2011.
81. “Fiery American-Born Qaeda Militant.”
82. Scott Shane, “Judging a Long Reach,” New York Times, September 30, 2011.
83. Tim Funk, “Family of Al Qaeda Blogger Samir Khan ‘Appalled’ by US Actions,” McClatchey, October 6, 2011, http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/10/06/v-print/126352/family-of-al-qaida-blogger-samir.html.
84. Sholto Byrnes, “It Was Wrong for the US to Kill Al Awlaki,” National, October 8, 2011.
85. Carrie Dann and Casey Hunt, “With Bi-Partisan Aid, Paul Filibusters CIA Pick Brennan,” NBC News, March 6, 2013, http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/06/17210879-with-bipartisan-aid-paul-filibusters-cia-pick-brennan.
86. Alexandra Petri, “Keep Talking Rand Paul, the Kentucky Senator’s Blizzard Filibuster,” ComPost (blog), Washington Post, March 6, 2013, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2013/03/06/keep-talking-rand-paul-the-kentucky-senators-blizzard-filibuster/.
87. Alec MacGillis, “Rand Paul Has a Point: The Time Has Come to Talk about Drone Strikes on US Soil,” New Republic, March 6, 2013, http://www.newrepublic.com/article/112604/rand-paul-drone-filibuster-senator-has-point#.
88. Kate Nocera, “Rand Paul Filibsuter Blasted by John McCain, Lindsey Graham.” Politico, March 7, 2013, http://www.politico.com/story/2013/03/john-mccain-lindsey-graham-blast-rand-paul-filibuster-88564.html.
89. Richard Stevenson, “A Senator’s Stance on Drones Scrambles Partisan Lines,” New York Times, March 7, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/08/us/politics/mccain-and-graham-assail-paul-filibuster-over-drones.html.
90. Anthony Gregory, “Obama, the Ground Breaking President?” Huffington Post, October 7, 2011, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anthony-gregory/obama-al-awlaki_b_998546.html.
91. David Cole, “Killing Our Citizens without Trial,” New York Review of Books, November 24, 2011.
92. Byrnes, “It Was Wrong.”
93. “Americans Say Government Was Right to Eliminate Islamist Militant,” Angus-Reid.com, October 11, 2011, http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/44084/americans-say-government-was-right-to-eliminate-islamist-militant/.
94. Eric Holder, “Attorney General Eric Holder Speaks at Northwestern University School of Law” (speech, Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago, IL, March 5, 2012), http://www.justice.gov/iso/opa/ag/speeches/2012/ag-speech-1203051.html.
95. Ibid.
96. Tom Curry, “Holder Defends Targeted Killing Policy, Hints at Memo Release,” NBC Politics (blog), NBC News, March 6, 2013, http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/06/17212054-holder-defends-targeted-killings-policy-hints-at-memo-release.
97. Bill Roggio, “AQAP Claims Media Emir Is Still Alive,” Threat Matrix (blog), Long War Journal, October 29, 2011, http://www.longwarjournal.org/threat-matrix/archives/2011/10/aqap_claims_media_emir_is_aliv.php.
98. Peter Finn and Greg Miller, “Anwar Awlaki’s Family Speaks Out against His Son’s Death in a Drone Strike,” Washington Post, October 17, 2011.
99. Ken Dilanian, “Awlaki’s Son, 16, Killed by Drone,” Sydney Morning Herald, October 21, 2011.
100. Bill Roggio, “Anwar al Awlaki’s Son Hoped to ‘Attain Martyrdom as My Father Attained It,’” Long War Journal, December 8, 2011, http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2011/12/anwar_al_awlakis_son.php.
101. Jo Becker and Scott Shane, “Secret ‘Kill List’ Proves a Test of Obama’s Principles and Will,” New York Times, May 29, 2012.
102. “Intelligence on Purported Europe Terror Plot Called ‘Credible,’” NBC News, September 30, 2010, http://www.nbcnews.com/id/39413455/ns/world_news-europe/#.URqVb2ckf5Q.
103. Tristina Moore, “Terrorism Alert Focuses Spotlight on Germany,” Time, October 12, 2010.
104. Troy McMullen and Anna Schecter, “German Terror Connection Grows: 45 More Suspects Being Tracked,” ABC News, October 7, 2010, http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/ahmed-siddiqui-german-terror-connection/story?id=11760048.
105. Richard Norton Taylor, “‘Mumbai-Style’ Terror Attack on UK, France and Germany Foiled,” Guardian, September 29, 2010.
106. “Drone Killed British Taliban Plotter Reports Say,” Guardian, October 6, 2010.
107. “British Man Set to Lead British Terror ‘Army’ Killed in Pakistan Drone Strike against Militants,” Daily Mail, October 6, 2010.
108. “Pakistan Drone Attack Kills Germans in Response to Europe Terror Plot,” Christian Science Monitor, October 5, 2010.
109. “Drone Attack Kills Two Britons in Pakistan,” BBC News, December 16, 2010, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12006061.
110. Pam Benson et al., “Intelligence, Potential Plots Are Factors in Drone Attack Increase,” CNN, September 28, 2010.
111. John Reed, “RQ-170 Stealth Drone Used in Bin Laden Raid,” Defense Tech, May 18, 2011, http://defensetech.org/2011/05/18/rq-170-sentinel-stealth-drone-used-in-bin-laden-raid/.
112. Greg Miller, “CIA Flew Stealth Drones into Pakistan to Monitor Bin Laden House,” Washington Post, May 17, 2010.
113. Gloria Borger, “Attack on Osama Bin Laden Was Years in the Making,” CNN, May 4, 2011, http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/05/02/borger.ksm.bin.laden/index.html.
114. For an in depth account of the raid see Williams, Afghanistan Declassified.
115. David Sanger and Eric Schmitt, “As Rift Deepens, Kerry Has a Warning for Pakistan,” New York Times, May 14, 2011.
116. Christina Lamb, “Killing of Al Qaeda Leaders Hurting,” Australian, September 19, 2011.
117. Sanger and Schmitt, “As Rift Deepens.”
118. Singer, “Do Drones Undermine Democracy?”
119. John Pike quoted in Sam Biddle, “Drones Mean the Iraq War Is Never Over,” Gizmodo, October 21, 2011, http://gizmodo.com/5852228/drones-mean-the-iraq-war-is-never-over.
120. “US Drones Bombed Libya More than Pakistan,” RT, October 20, 2011, http://rt.com/usa/news/us-libya-pakistan-drone-325/.
121. Spencer Ackerman, “Libya: The Real US Drone War,” Danger Room (blog), Wired, October 20, 2011, http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/10/predator-libya/.
122. Thomas Harding, “Colonel Gaddafi Killed: Convoy Bombed
by Drone Flown by Pilot in Las Vegas,” Telegraph, October 20, 2011.
123. Kristina Wong, “US Drone a Tech Challenge for Iran,” Washington Times, January 12, 2012.
124. Scott Peterson, “Iran Hacked US Drone Says Iranian Engineer,” Christian Science Monitor, December 15, 2011.
125. Mark Clayton, “Did Iran Hijack the ‘Beast’? US Experts Cautious about Bold Claims,” Christian Science Monitor, December 16, 2011.
126. Martha Raddatz and Luis Martinez, “Is US Drone Shown on Iran TV Real?” ABC News, December 8, 2011, http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/us-rq-170-sentinel-stealth-drone-shown-iran/story?id=15115781.
127. Scott Shane and David Sanger, “Drone Crash in Iran Reveals Secret US Drone Effort,” New York Times, December 7, 2011.
128. Some claimed that the drone shown on Iranian television was a fake, but this has not been ascertained.
129. “Iran Airs Footage of Downed US Drone,” Press TV, December 8, 2011.
130. Lee Ferran, “Obama: Hey Iran, Can We Get Our Drone Back?” ABC News, December 12, 2011, http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/obama-asks-iran-rq-170-sentinel-drone-back/story?id=15140133.
131. Dave Majumdar, “Iran’s Captured RQ 170. How Bad Is the Damage?” Air Force Times, December 9, 2011; “Iran Displays RQ 170 Sentinel,” Global Military Review, December 2011.
132. Roggio and Mayer, “Charting the Data for US Airstrikes in Pakistan.”
133. Entous, Gorman, and Barnes, “US Tightens Drone Rules.”
134. Ibid.
135. Barbara Starr, “US Pauses Drone Strikes in Pakistan,” CNN, December 24, 2011, http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/24/world/asia/pakistan-us-drones.
136. U.S. Department of Defense, “Department of Defense Statement Regarding Investigation Results into Pakistan Cross-Border Incident,” news release, December 22, 2011, http://www.defense.gov/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=14976.
137. Ibid.
138. Faisal Aziz, “US Leaving Drone Base Won’t Have Big Impact on Air War,” Reuters, December 12, 2011.
139. “Pakistan to Down Intruding US Drones,” Press TV, December 11, 2011, http://www.presstv.ir/detail/215014.html.
140. “18 Killed in Suspected Drone Attacks in Pakistan,” CNN, November 16, 2011, http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/16/world/asia/pakistan-drone-attacks.
141. Bill Roggio, “US Will Break Lull in Drone Strikes Only to Hit a High Value Target: Pakistani Official,” Long War Journal, December 20, 2011, http://www.longwarjournal.org/threat-matrix/archives/2011/12/us_will_break_lull_in_drone_st.php.
142. “To Pacify Pakistan US Asked for Permission for Jan. Drone Strike,” Express Tribune, January 17, 2012.
143. Eric Schmitt, “Lull in US Drone Strikes Aids Militants in Pakistan” New York Times, January 6, 2012.
144. Haji Mujtaba, “Suspected US Drone Kills Four Militants in Pakistan,” Reuters, January 10, 2012.
145. Rasool Dawar, “US Fires First Drone in 6 Weeks, 4 Dead,” Guardian, January 11, 2012.
146. Ibid.
147. Scott Shane, “Drone Strike Kills Qaeda Operative in Pakistan, US Says,” New York Times, January 20, 2012.
148. “Hakimullah Not Dead: Pakistani Taliban,” Times of India, January 16, 2012.
149. Chris Allbritton, “Exclusive: How Pakistan Helps the US Drone Campaign,” Reuters, January 22, 2010.
150. Declan Walsh and Eric Schmitt, “Abu Yahya al Libi of Al Qaeda Said to Be Killed,” New York Times, June 5, 2012.
151. Associated Press, “Report: US Drone Kills Somali Al Qaeda Insurgent,” Fox News, January 22, 2012, http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/01/22/report-us-drone-strike-kills-somali-al-qaeda-insurgent/.
152. Ian Cobain, “British Al Qaida Member Killed in Drone Attack in Somalia,” Guardian, January 22, 2012.
153. Julian Barnes, “US Expands Drone Flights to Take Aim at East Africa,” Wall Street Journal, September 21, 2011; Jim Lobe, “US Expanding Network of Drone Bases to Hit Somalia, Yemen,” Inter Press Service, September 21, 2011, http://www.ipsnews.net/2011/09/us-expanding-network-of-drone-bases-to-hit-somalia-yemen/; “Who Will the Drones Target?” Associated Press, May 22, 2012.
154. Saleh ali Saleh Nabhan was killed by JSOC in September 2009 and Aden Hashi Farah “Ayrow” was killed in a May 2008 air strike.
155. Greg Jaffe and Karen De Young, “US Drone Strike Targets Two Leaders of Somali Group Allied to Al Qaeda, Official Says,” Washington Post, June 29, 2011; Tristan McConell, “Drone Wars: Somalia Becomes the Latest Front,” GlobalPost, October 10, 2011, http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/africa/111007/drone-wars-somalia-al-shabaab-cia.
156. “US Drones Strike al Shabab in Somalia,” GlobalPost, September 26, 2011, http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/africa-emerges/drone-attack.
157. Emma Slater and Chris Woods, “Iranian TV Accused of Faking Reports of Somali Drone Strikes,” Guardian, December 2, 2011; “US Drone Strike Kills 35 in S. Somalia,” PressTV, September 6, 2011, http://presstv.com/detail/197622.html.
158. David Axe, “Hidden History: America’s Secret Drone War in Africa,” Danger Room (blog), Wired, August 13, 2012, http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/08/somalia-drones/.
159. “Profile: Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula,” Al Jazeera, May 9, 2012.
160. Bill Roggio and Bob Barry, “Charting the Data for US Air Strikes in Yemen, 2002–2013,” Long War Journal, http://www.longwarjournal.org/multimedia/Yemen/code/Yemen-strike.php (accessed March 8, 2013).
161. “Air Fighter Blast Al Qaeda’s Weapons Stock,” Yemen Post, May 23, 2012.
162. “Yemen Says Airstrikes, Troops Kill Seven Militants,” Reuters, May 19, 2012, http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/19/us-yemen-idUSBRE84I07V20120519.
163. “11 Militants in Fiercest Battle to Retake Key Areas in Yemen,” Yemen Post, June 11, 2012.
164. Peter Bergen and Jennifer Rowland, “Obama Ramps Up Covert War in Yemen,” CNN, June 11, 2012, http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/11/opinion/bergen-yemen-drone-war.
165. Jacob Zenn, “US Drones Circle over Philippines,” Asia Times, February 29, 2012.
166. “Abu Sayyaf and Jemaah Islamiya Members Killed in Airstrike,” Jamestown Foundation Briefs 3, no. 2 (February 29, 2012), http://mlm.jamestown.org/single/?tx_ttnews[tt_news]=39067&tx_ttnews[backPid]=546&cHash=64e28b4fd0e8afdf68a47917ee6f1457.
167. Mark Mazzetti, “The Drone Zone,” New York Times, July 6, 2012.
168. Chris Woods and Christina Lamb, “Obama Terror Drones: CIA Tactics in Pakistan Include Targeting Rescuers and Funerals,” Bureau of Investigative Journalism, February 4, 2012, http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2012/02/04/obama-terror-drones-cia-tactics-in-pakistan-include-targeting-rescuers-and-funerals/
169. Glenn Greenwald, “US Said to Target Rescuers at Drone Sites,” New York Times, February 5, 2012.
170. Ibid.
171. Woods and Lamb, “Obama Terror Drones.”
172. “Blast Kills at Least Twenty in Pakistan,” Washington Post, June 20, 2007.
173. Bill Roggio, “US Drones Kill 10 ‘Militants’ in North Waziristan Strike,” Long War Journal, February 8, 2012, http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2012/02/us_drones_killed_8_m.php.
174. Ismail Khan and Declan Walsh, “Drone Kills Pakistani Militant, Officials Say,” New York Times, February 9, 2012.
175. Bill Roggio, “Top North Waziristan Taliban Leader Bahadar Rumored Killed in US Strike,” Long War Journal, March 11, 2010, http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2010/03/top_north_waziristan.php.
176. “US Drone ‘Kills 10’ in Pakistan,” BBC News, February 8, 2012, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16939853.
177. Taj, “Drone Attacks: Challenging Some Fabrications.”
178. “Pakistan Drone Attack ‘Kills’ Top Militants,” BBC News, October 27, 2011.
179. “Drone Attacks, A Survey,” News, March 5, 2009.
180. “Cables Show US Special Operations in Pakistan,” Al Jazeera, May 21, 2011; “Leaked US Diplomatic Messages Show Pakistan Milita
ry Requested More Drone Strikes and Help from US Special Forces,” Al Jazeera, May 21, 2011.
181. Farhat Taj, “Drone Attacks and US Reputation,” Daily Times, February 6, 2010.
182. “US Drone Kills Scores of People in Tribal Zone,” Times, June 25, 2009.
183. Haq Nawaz Khan and Karin Brulliard, “Bombing at Funeral Kills at Least 25 in Northwestern Pakistan,” Washington Post, September 15, 2011; Associated Press, “Pakistan Suicide Bombing Kills 36 at Funeral,” CBC News, March 9, 2011, http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/03/09/pakistan-suicide-bombing.html.
184. Taj, “Drone Attacks: Challenging Some Fabrications.”
9. THE ARGUMENT FOR DRONES
1. “US Air Strikes in Pakistan Called Very Effective,” CNN, May 18, 2009, http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/05/18/cia.pakistan.airstrikes/.
2. Shane and Schmitt, “C.I.A. Deaths Prompt Surge.”
3. John Cushman, “Bin Laden Plot against Obama Laid Out in Documents,” New York Times, March 16, 2012.
4. Ravi Somaiya, “Drone Strike Prompts Suit, Raising Fears for U.S. Allies,” New York Times, January 30, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/31/world/drone-strike-lawsuit-raises-concerns-on-intelligence-sharing.html.
5. Brian Glyn Williams, “Mullah Omar’s Missiles: A Field Report on Suicide Bombers in Afghanistan,” Middle East Policy 15, no. 4 (Winter 2008).
6. Syed Shazad, “Drones Ever Closer to Pakistan’s Militants,” Asia Times, October 27, 2011.
7. Bill Roggio, “Taliban Rebuild Children’s Suicide Camp in South Waziristan,” Long War Journal, October 6, 2008, http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/10/taliban_rebuild_chil.php.
8. Sayed Bukhari, “Misplaced Sense of Sovereignty,” letter to the editor, Dawn, September 27, 2008.
9. Ajmal, comment on Nadeem Paracha, “Drone Attacks: The Truth Is Out,” Café Black (blog), Dawn, April 28, 2011, http://www.dawn.com/2011/04/28/drone-attacks-the-truth-is-out.html.
10. Ifran Husain, “Howling at the Moon,” Dawn, January 9, 2010.
11. Farhan Bokhari, “Transcript: Interview with Ali Asif Zardari,” Financial Times, September 15, 2009, http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/36a57efa-a205-11de-81a6-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2N5DyPlGL.
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