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7. Barton Gellman, “CIA Weighs ‘Targeted Killing’ Missions: Administration Believes Restraints Do Not Bar Singling Out Individual Terrorists,” Washington Post , October 28, 2001.

8. Ibid.

9. Michael Warren, “Biden Insinuates He Didn’t Vote for Afghanistan, Iraq Wars,” Weekly Standard , October 11, 2012.

10. Morris Davis, “Combatant Immunity and the Death of Anwar al Awlaqi,” Jurist , October 17, 2011, http://jurist.org/forum/2011/10/morris-davis-anwar-al-awlaqi.php.

11. Hassan Abbas, Pakistan’s Drift into Extremism (London: M. E. Sharpe, 2009), 217.

12. Ibid., 218.

13. For an overview of this war see Brian Glyn Williams, Afghanistan Declassified: A Guide to America’s Longest War (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012).

14. “CIA Sent Drone to Save Rebel Leader,” Associated Press, October 29, 2001.

15. Brian Glyn Williams, The Last Warlord: The Life and Legend of the Afghan Warrior Who Led US Special Forces in Toppling the Taliban Regime (Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2013).

16. Brian Glyn Williams, “Report from the Field: General Dostum and the Mazar i Sharif Campaign: New Light on the Role of Northern Alliance Warlords in Operation Enduring Freedom,” Small Wars and Insurgencies 21, no. 4 (December 2010): 610–32.

17. Terry Anderson, Bush’s Wars (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), 87.

18. “Tribal Leader: Bin Laden in Pakistan,” United Press International, April 21, 2004.

19. Tenet, Written Statement for the Record , 16.

20. Yenne, Birds of Prey , 45.

21. Carlota Gall, “War-Weary Commanders Admit Rift with Leaders,” New York Times , February 22, 2011.

22. Thomas E. Ricks, “Target Approval Delays Irk Air Force Officers,” Washington Post , November 18, 2001.

23. Yenne, Birds of Prey , 45.

24. Stephen Grey, “Death of Bin Laden’s Deputy: How the US Killed Al Qaeda Leaders by Remote Control,” Times , November 18, 2001.

25. Ricks, “Target Approval Delays.”

26. “Predator and Prey,” Newsweek , January 16, 2006. Among others, the military’s drones are flown by the 11th, 15th, 17th, 46th, and 64th Reconnaissance Squadrons and the Air National Guard’s 163rd Reconnaissance Wing, 119th and 214th Reconnaissance Groups, 19th and 42nd Attack Squadrons, 53rd Wing, 56th Test and Evaluation Squadron, 27th, 33rd, and 58th Special Operations Wings, 551st Special Operations Squadron, and 174th Fighter Wing,

27. Operation Anaconda: The Battle of Robert’s Ridge, Part 4 of 5 , Military Channel documentary, LiveLeak.com , posted by “bravo61,” October 12, 2008, http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=151_1223869362.

28. Doug Struck, “Casualties of U.S. Miscalculations: Afghan Victims of CIA Missile Strike Described as Peasants, Not Al Qaeda,” Washington Post , February 11, 2002.

29. Doug Struck, “Men Hit in U.S. Missile Strike Were Scavengers, Relatives Say Afghans Were at Al Qaeda Site for Scrap Metal to Sell,” Washington Post , February 12, 2002.

30. Department of Defense, “DoD News Briefing: Secretary Rumsfeld and Gen. Myers,” news transcript, February 12, 2002, http://www.defense.gov/transcripts/transcript.aspx?transcriptid=2636.

31. Struck, “Men Hit in U.S. Missile Strike.”

1. U.S. Department of Defense, “Secretary Rumsfeld Interview with CNN Live Today,” news transcript, March 8, 2002.

2. “Interviews Former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill,” 60 Minutes , CBS, January 11, 2004.

3. David Rennie, “US Tried to Kill Warlord with Drone Missile,” Telegraph (London), May 10, 2002.

4. Ron Moreau et al., “Day of the Vampire,” Newsweek , June 17, 2002.

5. Bob Graham, “Senator Bob Graham Remarks to the Council on Foreign Relations” (speech, Council on Foreign Relations, Washington, DC, March 26, 2004), http://www.cfr.org/terrorism/senator-bob-graham-remarks-council-foreign-relations/p6905.

6. Tom Brook, “US Shifts Spy Planes to Afghan War,” USA Today , August 23, 2009.

7. David Sanger, The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges of American Power (New York: Harmony Books, 2009), 138.

8. “Dogfight between MQ-1 Predator Drone and Mig-25 Foxbat,” YouTube video, 2:04, from CBSNews.com, posted by “OakRidgejet,” November 19, 2006, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWUR3sgKUV8.

9. Philip Smucker, “The Intrigue behind the Drone Strike,” Christian Science Monitor , November 12, 2002.

10. “Yemen Strike Opens New Chapter in War on Terror,” Time , November 5, 2002.

11. Smucker, “Intrigue behind the Drone Strike.”

12. James Bamford, The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America (New York: Doubleday, 2009), 135.

13. “They Didn’t Know What Hit Them,” Time , November 18, 2002.

14. “U.S. Citizen Killed by CIA Linked to N.Y. Terror Case,” Washington Post , November 9, 2002.

15. “Assassination by Remote Control,” Economist , November 5, 2002.

16. “U.S. Drone Hits Al-Qaida in Yemen; 6 Alleged Operatives Killed,” Los Angeles Times , November 5, 2002.

17. Hassan Abbas, “A Profile of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan,” Combating Terrorism Center Sentinel 1, no. 2 (January 28, 2008): 3.

18. Abdul Saboor Khan, “Orokzai Becomes New Haven for the Taliban,” Daily Times (Pakistan), February 4, 2009.

19. Owen Bennett-Jones, “Tide Turns against the Taliban,” BBC News, May 21, 2009, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8059900.stm.

20. “Qaeda Firmly Rooted in Tribal Fiefdom, Report,” Agence France-Presse, August 26, 2011.

21. “Pakistan: 100 Fighters Captured in Battle: Confusion over Whether Al-Zawahiri Being Protected,” CNN, May 6, 2004, http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/03/20/pakistan.alqaeda/index.html; “49 Troops Dead or Missing So Far in Al Qaeda Offensive,” Agence France-Presse, March 23, 2004.

22. “Pakistan: 100 Fighters”; “49 Troops Dead or Missing.”

23. “Nek Warns of Attacks throughout Pakistan,” Dawn , June 11, 2004.

24. Ibid.

25. Ismail Khan, “Night Raid Kills Nek, Four Other Militants: Wana Operation,” Dawn , June 19, 2004, http://archives.dawn.com/2004/06/19/top1.htm.

26. Ibid.

27. “US, Pakistani Forces Clash on Afghan Border,” CNN, January 1, 2003, http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/central/01/01/afghan.clashes/index.html.

28. “CIA Drone Kills Al-Qaida Operative,” MSNBC, May 14, 2005, http://www.nbcnews.com/id/7847008/ns/us_news-security/t/cia-drone-kills-al-qaida-operative.

29. “Surveillance Operation in Pakistan Located and Killed Al Qaeda Official,” Washington Post , May 15, 2005; “Exclusive: CIA Aircraft Kills Terrorist: Senior Al Qaeda Operative Struck by Predator Missile,” ABC News, May 13, 2005, http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Investigation/story?id=755961.

30. David Ensor, “Sources: Key Al Qaeda Operative Killed,” CNN, May 14, 2005, http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/05/13/alqaeda.killing/index.html.

31. “CIA Drone Kills Al-Qaida Operative,” MSNBC, May 14, 2005, http://www.nbcnews.com/id/7847008/ns/us_news-security/t/cia-drone-kills-al-qaida-operative.

32. “Exclusive: CIA Aircraft Kills Terrorist.”

33. Aamir Borbra, “Musharraf Okayed Drones, Not Strikes: PM,” Daily Mail News , October 23, 2010.

34. “An Extrajudicial Execution by the CIA?” Amnesty International, May 18, 2005, http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/AMR51/079/2005/en/bcffa8d8-d4ea-11dd-8a23-d58a49c0d652/amr510792005en.html.