Drone Strikes’ Risks to Get Rare Moment in the Public Eye (Published 2013)
Tribesmen on Sunday on the rubble of a building destroyed on Oct. 14, 2011, in an American drone strike against suspected militants in Shabwa Province in southeastern Yemen.Credit...Khaled Abdullah/Reuters SANA, Yemen — Late last August, a 40-year-old cleric named Salem Ahmed bin Ali Jaber stood up to deliver a speech denouncing Al Qaeda in a village mosque in far eastern Yemen. It was a brave ges
Election Spurred a Move to Codify U.S. Drone Policy (Published 2012)
Pakistanis displaced by a drone strike. Under President Obama, more than 300 have occurred.Credit...A Majeed/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images WASHINGTON — Facing the possibility that President Obama might not win a second term, his administration accelerated work in the weeks before the election to develop explicit rules for the targeted killing of terrorists by unmanned drones, so that a new p
Apple Rejects App That Tracks U.S. Drone Strikes
It seemed like a simple enough idea for an iPhone app: send users a pop-up notice whenever a flying robots kills someone in one of America's many undeclared wars. But Apple keeps blocking the Drones+ program from its App Store -- and therefore, from iPhones everywhere. The Cupertino company says the content is "objectionable and crude," according to Apple's latest rejection letter. A mockup of dev
Britain faces legal challenge over secret US 'kill list' in Afghanistan
Britain's role in supplying information to an American military "kill list" in Afghanistan is being subjected to legal challenge amid growing international concern over targeted strikes against suspected insurgents and drug traffickers. An Afghan man who lost five relatives in a missile strike started proceedings against the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) and the Ministry of Defence demandi
Obama and Terror: The Hovering Questions | David Cole
1.In March 2010, the ACLU ran an advertisement in which President Barack Obama’s face morphs into that of President George W. Bush. A few months later, in a report on the first eighteen months of Obama’s term, the civil liberties group charged that Obama was in danger of establishing a “new normal” by entrenching the “worst Bush-era policies.” According to Daniel Klaidman’s new account of Presiden
Michael Hastings: The Rise of the Killer Drones
An MQ-1 Predator drone goes through post-flight maintenance in Iraq. U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Christopher Griffin One day in late November, an unmanned aerial vehicle lifted off from Shindand Air Base in western Afghanistan, heading 75 miles toward the border with Iran. The drone’s mission: to spy on Tehran’s nuclear program, as well as any insurgent activities the Iranians might be s
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A Model of American Opacity
Read Obama's Big Speech on Drones and a New 'Targeted' War
As New Drone Policy Is Weighed, Few Practical Effects Are Seen (Published 2013)
Teju Cole on the “Empathy Gap” and Tweeting Drone Strikes
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John Brennan’s Kill List
It's Time to Stop Killing in Secret | David Cole
「無人機による殺害」を知らせるアプリ、アップルは拒否
Uzbek Group Says Drone Killed Leader (Published 2012)
How the Obama administration is making the US media its mouthpiece | Glenn Greenwald
The Obama Doctrine
AP IMPACT: New light on drone war's death toll
Why hawks should vote for Obama
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