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William Fisher, Truthout: "The Obama administration is ramping up its use of drone unmanned aircraft to execute targeted killings in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and perhaps in other locations - and, in the process, killing civilians along with insurgents, and risking the compromise of US moral imperatives and foreign policy goals."

http://www.truthout.org/obama-administrations-use-drones-responsible-increase-civilian-deaths56370



The Drone Surge: Today, Tomorrow and 2047

Nick Turse, TomDispatch.com: "One moment there was the hum of a motor in the sky above. The next, on a recent morning in Afghanistan's Helmand province, a missile blasted a home, killing 13 people. Days later, the same increasingly familiar mechanical whine preceded a two-missile salvo that slammed into a compound in Degan village in the tribal North Waziristan district of Pakistan, killing three."

http://www.truthout.org/nick-turse-the-drone-surge-today-tomorrow-and-204756350

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Pentagon Master Plan: Super-Size My Drone Fleet
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/01/pentagon-master-plan-super-size-my-drone-fleet/


Informant: Kev Hall



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