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The CIA has escalated its use of drones in Pakistan, launching seven deadly strikes during the first 10 days of 2013 and killing at least 40 people.

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U.S. Drones Pound Pakistan, Which Responds by Doing Exactly Nothing

Tribesman rallied on Saturday in the ''thousands'' to protest the killing of Taliban commander Maulvi Nazir, who had reached a truce with the Pakistani military. So far, the main Pakistani politician speaking out against the drones is Imran Khan, who condemned the new strikes on Sunday as a violation of Pakistani sovereign...

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Drones Bury Beautiful Lives

Video

''A beautiful life was buried and the sound of crying and sorrow arose from peaceful homes. I say that this is inhumane.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33606.htm



CIA Drone Wars Protested at CIA headquarters

Anti-killer-drone activists were joined by participants of Witness Against Torture who were on the last day of their week-long fast and work calling for the closing of Guantanamo, justice for the prisoners there, and an end to torture everywhere.

http://is.gd/xQlJvW



King: I Have a Dream, Obama: I Have a Drone

By Norman Solomon

Crowing about the moral virtues of making war while accepting a peace prize might seem a bit odd, but Obama s rhetoric was in sync with a key dictum from Orwell: ''Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33627.htm



CIA gets exception in upcoming drone strike 'playbook'

The adoption of a formal guide to targeted killing marks a significant, and to some uncomfortable, milestone: The institutionalization of a practice that would have seemed anathema to many before the Sept. 11 , 2001, terrorist attacks.

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British man stripped of citizenship says he was tortured and forced to sign a confession by the CIA. First shocking interview with Mahdi Hashi from his New York cell.

http://is.gd/CbYDwI


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