Predators: The CIA's Drone War on al Qaeda

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At the dawn of the twenty-first century, the United States, the world’s lone remaining superpower, launched itself across the globe in a war against terrorists who had struck at its heart on September 11, 2001. Among the most novel aspects of this campaign was the use by an ostensibly civilian organization—the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)—of a new generation of unmanned, remote-control planes known as drones to kill the enemy hiding out in remote sanctuaries in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia. (The military has been in control of most drone operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.) Thousands of people, both terrorists and civilians, have been killed and many more continue to die in this aerial assassination campaign, yet there has been no thorough study of this remote-control warfare in remote lands to date. Critics and supporters of the drone killings debate the issue, often passionately, without having a basic outline of the vast covert operation.

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