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12. Mark Mazzetti and Eric Schmitt, “Shaky Pakistan Is Seen as Target of Al Qaeda Plots,” New York Times, May 10, 2009.
13. “TTP’s Qari Hussain Killed in Drone Attack,” Tribune Express, October 15, 2010.
14. Daniel Byman, “Taliban vs. the Predator: Are Targeted Killings in Pakistan a Good Idea?” Foreign Affairs, March 18, 2009.
15. Masood and Shah, “CIA Drones Kill Civilians in Pakistan.”
16. Rohde, “Drone War.”
17. Mockenhaupt, “We’ve Seen the Future.”
18. “Pakistan Taliban Member Describes Counter Measures against UAV Attacks,” Terrorism Monitor 7, no. 31 (October 23, 2009): 3–5.
19. Karen Bruillard and Haq Nawaz Khan, “Pakistanis Tie Slayings to Surge in US Strikes,” Washington Post, December 24, 2010.
20. 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.
21. Alex Rodriguez and David Zucchino, “US Drone Attacks in Pakistan Get Mixed Response,” Los Angeles Times, May 2, 2010.
22. Walsh, “Mysterious ‘Chip.’”
23. Ibid.
24. Jane Perlez and Pir Zubair Shah, “Drones Batter Al Qaeda and Its Allies in Pakistan,” New York Times, April 4, 2010.
25. Munir Ahmad, The Battle for Pakistan: Militancy and Conflict in Balochistan, National Security Studies Program Policy Paper (Washington, DC: New America Foundation, September 2011).
26. Eric Schmitt and Jane Perlez, “Strikes Worsen Qaeda Threat Pakistan Says,” New York Times, February 24, 2009.
27. “Al Qaeda under Pressure: US Drones Have Al Qaeda on the Run,” CBS News, July 10, 2009, http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-5151547.html.
28. Mayer, “Predator War.”
29. Katherine Tiedemann, “Drone Attacks in Tribal Pakistan Force Al Qaeda into Urban Areas,” Times, August 8, 2009; Imtiaz Ali, “Karachi Becoming a Taliban Safe Haven?” Combating Terrorism Center Sentinel 3, no. 1 (January 2010): 17–20.
30. Associated Press, “Jihadist Shift Seen in Pakistan, Fewer Arabs,” Fox News, September 3, 2012, http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/09/03/jihadist-shift-seen-in-pakistan-fewer-arabs/.
31. Tom Gjelten, “U.S. Officials: Al-Qaida Leadership Cadre ‘Decimated,’” Morning Edition, National Public Radio, February 3, 2009, http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100160836.
32. Peter Taylor, “Drones ‘Winning’ War against Al Qaeda Says Ex-CIA Head,” BBC News, March 20, 2011, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-12784129.
33. Emerson, “In Defense of Drones.”
34. Ali Chishti, “Al Qaeda Shifting to Pakistan’s Urban Areas,” Daily Times, August 25, 2010.
35. David Ignatius, “What Would Reconciliation Look Like for the US and Taliban?” Washington Post, June 29, 2010.
36. Associated Press, “Al Qaeda Leader Admits Facing Pressure from Drones,” Fox News, January 27, 2011, http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/01/27/al-qaida-leader-admits-facing-pressure-drones.
37. Greg Miller, “US Predator Strikes Causing ‘Confusion’ in Al Qaeda Ranks,” Los Angeles Times, March 22, 2009.
38. Greg Miller, “Predator Strikes in Pakistan: U.S. Says Drones Ravage Al Qaeda,” Chicago Tribune, March 22, 2009.
39. “Taliban Dismisses US Claims about Death of Osama’s Son,” Hindu, July 4, 2009.
40. Carol Grisanti and Mushtaq Yusufzai, “Taliban Style Justice for Alleged US Spies,” World Blog, NBC News, April 17, 2009, http://worldblog.nbcnews.com/_news/2009/04/17/4376383-taliban-style-justice-for-alleged-us-spies.
41. Mark Macdonald, “Are Drone Strikes Worth the Cost?” New York Times, August 22, 2012.
42. Christopher Swift, “The Drone Blowback Fallacy: Strikes in Yemen Aren’t Pushing People to Al Qaeda,” Foreign Affairs, July 1, 2012.
43. Karen De Young and Julie Tate, “Increased Drone Strikes in Pakistan Killing Few High Ranking Militants,” Washington Post, February 20, 2011.
44. “Bin Laden Was Trying to Build Drone-Decimated Network,” Japan Times, July 3, 2011.
45. Greg Miller, “Bin Laden Document Trove Reveals Strain on Al Qaeda,” Washington Post, July 1, 2011.
46. Spencer Ackerman, “White House: Al Qaeda Is Toast (as Long as These Shadow Wars Last Forever),” Danger Room (blog), Wired, June 29, 2011, http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/06/white-house-al-qaida-is-toast/.
47. Mark Mazzetti, “Al Qaeda Affiliates Growing Independent,” New York Times, August 29, 2011.
48. “The Drone Wars,” Wall Street Journal, January 9, 2010.
49. “Predators and Civilians,” Wall Street Journal, July 14, 2009.
50. “The Ethics of Unmanned Warfare,” United Press International, December 8, 2010.
51. William Saletan, “In Defense of Drones: They’re the Worst Form of War, Except for All the Others,” Slate, February 19, 2013, http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/human_nature/2013/02/drones_war_and_civilian_casualties_how_unmanned_aircraft_reduce_collateral.html.
52. Greg Miller, “Under Obama a Huge Rise in Drone Strikes,” Washington Post, January 1, 2012.
53. Noah Shachtman, “How the Afghanistan Air War Got Stuck in the Sky,” Wired, December 8, 2009, http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/12/ff_end_air_war/.
54. Christine Fair, “The Obama Administration Won’t Tell the Truth about America’s New Favorite Weapon—But That Doesn’t Mean the Critics are Right,” Foreign Policy, May 28, 2010.
55. “Flight of the Drones.”
56. Scott Shane, “Yemen’s Leader Praises US Drone Strikes,” New York Times, September 19, 2012; Greg Miller, “In Interview Yemeni President Acknowledges Approving US Drone Strikes,” Washington Post, September 29, 2012.
57. Graeme Smith, “Pakistan’s Deadly Robots in the Sky,” Globe and Mail, October 10, 2010.
58. Sarmad Tariq, “Drone Strikes Kill Militants, Others Kill the Innocent,” Welcome to Pakistan (blog), Express Tribune, January 18, 2013, http://blogs.tribune.com.pk/story/15697/drone-strikes-kill-militants-others-kill-the-innocent/.
59. John Schmidt, The Unraveling: Pakistan in the Age of Jihad (New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2011), 155–56, 158, 175.
60. Taj, “Drone Attacks: Challenging Some Fabrications.”
61. Taj, “Drone Attacks: Pakistan’s Policy.”
62. “Mapping US Drone and Islamic Militant Attacks in Pakistan,” BBC News, July 22, 2010, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-10648909.
63. Taj, “Drone Attacks: Challenging Some Fabrications.”
64. Azizullah Khan Khetran, “In Favor of Drone Attacks,” Daily Times, November 6, 2010.
65. Charles Recknagel, “Drone Attacks Stoke Debate in Pakistan,” EurasiaNet.org, October 17, 2010, http://www.eurasianet.org/node/62172.
66. Taj, “Drone Attacks: Challenging Some Fabrications.”
67. Hasan Zaidi, “Army Chief Wanted More Drone Support,” Dawn, May 20, 2011.
68. Sayeda Bukhari, “Are the Drone Attacks Not a Violation of Our Sovereignty?” trans. Zain Jamshaid, Watching America, October 18, 2011, http://watchingamerica.com/News/127159/are-the-drone-attacks-not-a-violation-of-our-sovereignty/.
69. Schmidt, Unraveling, 164, 175.
70. Peter Bergen, The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict between America and Al-Qaeda (New York: Free Press, 2011), 264.
71. David Ignatius, “Drones Allow CIA, Pakistan to Get Revenge,” New Haven Register, February 6, 2010, http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2010/02/06/opinion/doc4b6ce4afc7687022423909.txt.
72. Anthony Loyd, “US Drone Strikes in Pakistan Tribal Area Boost Support for Taleban,” Times, January 2, 2010.
73. Gwakh, “Drones, Pakistan Has No Leg to Stand On.”
74. Azizullah Khan Khetran, “In Favour of Drone Attacks,” Daily Times, November 6, 2010.
75. Taj, “Drone Attacks: Pakistan’s Policy.”
76. Farhat Taj, “D
rone Attacks: A Survey,” News, March 5, 2009.
77. Raza Habib, “Why I Support Drone Attacks,” Chowk.com, July 26, 2010.
78. Khetran, “In Favour of Drone Attacks.”
79. Pervez Hoodbhoy, “Drones: Theirs and Ours,” Viewpoint, 2010, http://www.viewpointonline.net/drones-theirs-and-ours.html.
80. Aamir Latif, “Pakistani Tribes Caught between Taliban and US Airstrikes,” U.S. News & World Report, February 11, 2009.
81. “Logic of Drone Attacks,” Daily Times, April 3, 2009.
82. Taj, “Drone Attacks: A Survey.”
83. Aryana Institute for Regional Research and Advocacy, “Peshawar Declaration,” December 12, 2009, www.airra.org/newsandanalysis/Peshawardeclaration.php.
84. Farhat Taj, “Pakistani Responses to the CIA’s Predator Drone Campaign against the Taliban and Al Qaeda,” Terrorism Monitor 8, no. 7 (February 19, 2010).
85. Farhat Taj, “Drone Attacks. A Critical Perspective,” Viewpoint, no. 141, http://www.viewpointonline.net/drone-attacks-a-critical-perspective.html.
86. Comment on Pakhtunkhwa Peace Forum Facebook page, February 20, 2010, https://www.facebook.com/Pashtoonwali/posts.
87. “Petition: Resume Drone Strikes on Taliban, Al Qaeda and Sipah e Sahba,” petition posted by “a global citizen,” Change.org, January 8, 2012, http://www.change.org/petitions/petition-resume-drone-attacks-on-taliban-al-qaeda-and-sipah-e-sahaba.
88. Schifrin, “US Drone Strikes with Deadly Accuracy.”
89. Nadeem Sarwar, “US Drone Brings Torment, Hope in Pakistan,” Deutsche Presse Agentur, March 19, 2010.
90. Taj, “Drone Attacks: Pakistan’s Policy.”
91. Ibid.
92. Ibid.
93. Fair, “Drones over Pakistan.”
94. “Capturing the Punjabi Imagination: Drones and the ‘Noble Savage,’” Reuters, November 13, 2011.
95. Salman Masood, “Pakistani General in Twist, Credits Drone Strikes,” New York Times, March 9, 2011.
96. Taj, “Drone Attacks: Challenging Some Fabrications.”
97. Taj, “Drone Attacks and US Reputation.”
98. Farhat Taj, “Drone Attacks: A Critical Perspective,” Viewpoint, 2010, http://www.viewpointonline.net/drone-attacks-a-critical-perspective.html.
99. “European Jihadis Flock to Pakistan for Terrorist Training,” Pakistan Conflict Monitor, August 3, 2010.
100. “Anti-Taliban Lashkar in Pakistan?” Daily Times, June 18, 2011.
101. Matt Dupee, “Anti-Taliban Tribal Leader Killed in Northwest Pakistan,” Long War Journal, December 2, 2011, http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2011/12/anti-taliban_tribal.php.
102. Khan, Armageddon in Pakistan: The Crisis of a Failed Feudal Economy (Pittsburgh: Rose Dog Books, 2009), 178.
103. Ibid.
104. Swift, “Drone Blowback Fallacy.”
105. Amitai Etzioni, “The Great Drone Debate,” Military Review, March–April 2013.
10. THE ARGUMENT AGAINST DRONES
1. “Pakistanis Blast US Air Raids,” Star, October 31, 2009.
2. Ayaz Khan, “Drone Attacks Continue,” Pakistan Observer, March 10, 2009.
3. Pew Research Global Attitudes Project, Concern about Extremist Threat Slips in Pakistan (Washington, DC: Pew Research Center, July 29, 2010).
4. Declan Walsh, “US Extends Drone Strikes to Somalia,” Guardian, June 30, 2011.
5. Los Angeles Times, “More Pakistanis See US as Enemy, Despite Aid,” SFGate, June 28, 2012, http://www.sfgate.com/world/article/More-Pakistanis-see-U-S-as-enemy-despite-aid-3672132.php.
6. New American Foundation, FATA: Inside Pakistan’s Tribal Regions, http://pakistansurvey.org/ (accessed December 2012).
7. Jane Perlez, “Petraeus, in Pakistan, Hears Complaints about Missile Strikes,” New York Times, November 3, 2008.
8. Ibid.
9. “Bigger Role for US CIA Drones in Pakistan,” Australian, October 28, 2008.
10. “SWA Action to Conclude Well before Time: PM Gilani,” Pak Tribune, November 16, 2009. http://paktribune.com/news/SWA-action-to-conclude-well-before-time-PM-Gilani-221378.html.
11. Hasnain Kazim, “How the CIA Uses Pakistan as a Launch Pad for Drones,” Der Speiegel, March 12, 2010.
12. Liam Stack, “Fresh Drone Attacks in Pakistan Reignite Debate,” Christian Science Monitor, July 8, 2009.
13. Saed Shah, “Anger in Pakistan at US Plan to Expand Drone Attacks,” Guardian, March 19, 2009.
14. Loyd, “US Drone Strikes in Pakistan Tribal Areas.”
15. “Pak May Say NO to Drone Hits in NWA,” Nation, November 25, 2010.
16. Shane, “CIA to Expand Use of Drones in Pakistan.”
17. “Drone War Can Trigger New Arms Race,” Arab News, January 21, 2013, http://www.arabnews.com/drone-war-can-trigger-new-arms-race.
18. Josh Gerstein, “Dennis Blair Rips Obama White House,” Politico.com, July 29, 2011, http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0711/60199.html.
19. Dennis Blair, “Drones Alone Are Not the Answer,” New York Times, August 14, 2011.
20. Ken Dilanian, “US Put New Restrictions on CIA Drone Strikes in Pakistan,” Los Angeles Times, November 7, 2011.
21. Nathaniel Fick, From Strategy to Implementation: Strengthening US-Pakistani Relations (Washington, DC: Center for a New American Security, July 7, 2009).
22. Masood, “Analysis: Time for a Rethink.”
23. Entous, Gorman, and Barnes, “US Tightens Drone Rules.”
24. “Pakistan Religious Party Condemns Drone Attacks,” Agence France-Presse, January 27, 2012, http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iJQzDPFk7xuzE-YZfH0WOyThdFLA?docId=CNG.c1e6e8d2965a4dcf201447e6ac7d2984.b1.
25. Salman Siddiqui, “Drone Attacks Hit All Time High,” Express Tribune, September 27, 2010.
26. David Rose, “How CIA Spies Deal Death from the Skies,” Daily Times, April 17, 2011.
27. “Foreign Complicity in the Drone War,” Al Jazeera, January 15, 2013, http://m.aljazeera.com/story/2013114103153393705.
28. Iftikhar Firdous, “Drone Attack Orphaned Whole Village,” Tribune Express, December 22, 2011.
29. Ibid.
30. Nick Paton Walsh and Nasir Habib, “Pakistani Leaders Condemn Suspected US Drone Strike,” CNN, March 18, 2011, http://articles.cnn.com/2011-03-18/world/pakistan.drone.strike_1_drone-strike-intelligence-officials-volatile-tribal-region.
31. Latif, “Pakistani Tribes Caught between Taliban and US Airstrikes.”
32. Nadeem Sarwar, “US Drone War Brings Torment, Hope in Pakistan,” EarthTimes.org, March 19, 2010.
33. Hasnain Kazim, “How the CIA Uses Pakistan as a Launch Pad for Drones,” Der Spiegel, March 12, 2010.
34. Carol Grisanti and Mushtaq Yusufzai, “Pakistanis Outraged over Continued Drone Attacks,” World Blog, NBC News, January 26, 2009, http://worldblog.nbcnews.com/_news/2009/01/26/4376849-pakistanis-outraged-over-continued-drone-attacks?lite.
35. Siddiqui, “Drone Attacks Hit All Time High.”
36. Ibid.
37. Sudarsan Raghavan, “In Yemen Airstrikes Breed Anger, Sympathy for Al Qaeda,” Washington Post, May 29, 2012.
38. Ibrahim Mothana, “How Drones Help Al Qaeda,” New York Times, June 14, 2012.
39. Hakim Almasmari, “Two Suspected U.S. Drone Strikes Reported in Yemen,” CNN, May 15, 2012, http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/15/world/meast/yemen-violence.
40. Sudarsan Raghavan, “When US Drone Strikes Kill Civilians, Yemen’s Government Tries to Conceal It,” Washington Post, December 24, 2012.
41. Sudarsan Raghavan, “In Yemen Airstrikes Breed Anger, Sympathy for Al Qaeda,” Washington Post, May 29, 2012.
42. “Drone Strike Killed Americans,” RT, October 17, 2011, http://rt.com/usa/news/drone-american-military-report-057/.
43. “Drones Kill Civilians,” Los Angeles Times, May 29, 2010.
44. David Cloud, “Anatomy of an Afghan War Tragedy,” Los Angeles Times, April 10, 2011.
45. Khaled Abdullah, “Drones Spur Y
emenis’ Distrust of Government and US,” Reuters, October 27, 2010, http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/10/27/us-yemen-usa-qaeda-idUSTRE69Q36520101027.
46. United Press International, “US Drone Initiated Strike on Kurds,” Personal Liberty Digest, January 8, 2012, http://personalliberty.com/2012/01/08/u-s-drone-initiated-strike-on-kurds/.
47. “Turkish Planes Kill 35 in Air Strike,” Sky News, December 29, 2011, http://news.sky.com/story/912231/turkish-warplanes-kill-35-in-air-strike.
48. Oliver Farry, “Turkey Admits Mistake in Deadly Airstrike,” France24, December 29, 2011, http://www.france24.com/en/20111229-turkey-admits-strike-over-kurdish-area-was-mistaken-smugglers-warplanes.
49. Hakim Almasmari, “Suspected US Drone Strike Kills Civilians in Yemen, Officials Say,” CNN, September 3, 2012, http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/03/world/meast/yemen-drone-strike.
50. Mayer, “Predator War.”
51. Orla Guerin, “Pakistani Civilian Victims Vent Anger over US Drones,” BBC, November 3, 2011, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/15553761.
52. Azmat Khan, “How the Drone War Plays Out in Pakistan’s Tribal Areas,” Frontline, PBS, December 12, 2011.
53. Ibid.
54. Justin Elliott, “I Wonder, Why I Was Victimized?” Salon, October 14, 2010, http://www.salon.com/2010/10/14/pakistan_civilian_deaths/.
55. Spencer Ackerman, “Rare Photographs Show Ground Zero of the Drone War,” Danger Room (blog), Wired, December 12, 2011, http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/12/photos-pakistan-drone-war/.
56. Saed Shan and Peter Beaumont, “US Drone Strikes in Pakistan Claiming Many Civilian Victims Says Campaigner,” Guardian, July 17, 2011.
57. “Drones and Democracy,” Islam Times, May 10, 2010.
58. Amna Nawaz, “For Many Pakistanis, ‘USA’ Means ‘Drones,’” World News (blog), NBC News, June 26, 2012, http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/06/26/12403677-for-many-pakistanis-usa-means-drones.
59. Stanford Law School, “Victim’s Stories,” Living under Drones, 2012, http://livingunderdrones.org/victim-stories/.
60. Taj, “Drone Attacks: A Survey.”
61. Gareth Porter, “CIA Slipping Its Leash with Drone Strikes,” Asia Times, October 20, 2010.