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9 Nov, 2011
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Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen

Democracy Now! interviews Bureau reporter

On Monday October 31, 16-year-old Tariq Aziz was killed in a US drone strike near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. Three days earlier, Bureau reporter Pratap Chatterjee met the teenager at a conference in Islamabad, where local people came together to discuss the impact of U.S. drone strikes in their communities. Related article: Bureau reporter meets 16-year-old […]
28 Oct, 2011
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Somalia

Bureau Recommends: US flies secret drones from Ethiopia base

Al-Shabaab fighters in Somalia The Bureau Recommends an article in the Washington Post, which reveals that the US Air Force has been secretly flying armed Reaper drones from a remote airbase in Ethiopia. According to the report, millions of dollars have been spent on upgrading the airfield in Arba Minch, which now houses a fleet […]
10 Aug, 2011
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Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen

Analysis: The Covert Drone War

In a recent edition of The Times a correspondent writes: ‘In a war in which information and perception play as important a role as tanks and jets, the images of wooden coffins on the shoulders of grieving men will make uncomfortable viewing in London and Paris.’ The journalist, Deborah Haynes, is reporting from a frontline town […]
30 Jun, 2011
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Somalia

Somalia targeted in US ‘drone war’

US Special Forces can call on Navy assets in the region. Photo,US Department of Defense A military drone operated by elite US Special Forces has targeted al Qaeda-linked militants in Somalia, killing several people. The attack marks the first confirmed hostile use of drones in the east African country. Bureau research suggests unmanned surveillance craft […]