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The director of the American Civil Liberties Union s national security project talks about why the Obama administration s drone assassinations are not just illegal in many cases, but are becoming increasingly risky for the US itself.

http://is.gd/o9gIGR



US drone strikes in Yemen cast a long shadow over life on the ground

Unmanned aircraft create refugees and resentment among civilians as remote provinces become a battleground.

http://is.gd/p8ccMY



'Double Tap' Drone Strikes

US Deliberately Targeting Rescuers

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The Central Intelligence Agency revived the controversial tactic of deliberately targeting rescuers at the scene of a previous drone strike.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35758.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Murder by joystick

Authority!
by Timothy J Taylor

So the U.S. government readily admits that it targets with bombs the funerals of its earlier assassination victims. That is the commission of an act of terror by any rational definition. The murderers have to know that innocent civilians, including wives, children and other relative would be attending those funerals. No wonder one in five of the victims of U.S. drone strikes are totally innocent of any crimes against Americans...

http://authoritycon.blogspot.com/2013/07/murder-by-joystick.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Life as a US Drone Operator: 'It s Like Playing a Video Game for Four Years'
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/07/mark-brown/we-kill-people-sometimes-the-wrong-ones/

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Fresh Evidence of CIA Drone Strikes on Rescuers
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/08/01-4

No, says State Dept., Drone Attacks in Pakistan Will Not Be Ending ''Very, Very Soon''
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/08/02-5



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