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74. “US Drone Strike Kills 13 in Saidgi Village: Security Officials,” Nation (Pakistan), December 27, 2009.

75. “Missile Strike Kills 3 Militants in N Waziristan,” Geo.TV , December 31, 2009, http://www.geo.tv/12-31-2009/55944.htm.

76. “US Censures Report on Drone Casualties,” Al Jazeera, August 13, 2011, http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2011/08/20118137276488676.html.

77. Scott Shane, “CIA Is Disputed on Civilian Toll in Drone Strikes,” New York Times , August 11, 2011.

78. “Obama Administration Counter-Terrorism Strategy,” C-Span, June 29, 2011, http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/AdministrationCo.

79. Dan Robinson, “Obama Remark on Drone Strikes in Pakistan Stirs Controversy,” VOA News, January 31, 2012, http://www.voanews.com/content/pakistan-repeats-condemnation-of-drone-strikes-138417439/151386.html.

80. Karen De Young, “After Remarks on Drones, White House Rebuffs Security Questions,” Washington Post , January 31, 2012.

81. Shane, “CIA to Expand Use of Drones in Pakistan.”

82. Ibid.

83. Tim Capaccio and Jeff Bliss, “US Said to Decrease Civilian Deaths after Increasing CIA Pakistan Strikes,” Bloomberg, January 31, 2011.

84. Jeremy Scahill, “Georgetown Professor: Drones Are Not Killing Innocent Civilians in Pakistan,” Nation , Mary 10, 2010.

85. Peter Bergen and Katherine Tiedemann, “The Hidden War,” Foreign Policy , December 10, 2010.

86. Peter Bergen and Katherine Tiedemann, The Year of the Drone: An Analysis of Drone Strikes in Pakistan, 2004–2011 (Washington, DC: New America Foundation, August 2, 2011), http://counterterrorism.newamerica.net/drones.

87. Peter Bergen and Jennifer Rowland, “Civilian Casualties Plummet in Drone Strikes,” CNN, July 14, 2012, http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/13/opinion/bergen-civilian-casualties.

88. Eric Schmitt and Christopher Drew, “More Drone Attacks in Pakistan Planned,” New York Times , April 6, 2009.

89. Shane, “CIA to Expand Use of Drones in Pakistan.”

90. Cloud, “CIA Drones Have Broader List of Targets.”

91. Capaccio and Bliss, “US Said to Reduce Civilian Deaths.”

92. Peter Finn and Joby Warrick, “Under Panetta a More Aggressive CIA,” Washington Post , March 21, 2010.

93. Sean Sullivan, “Panetta Defends Drone Strikes,” Washington Post , February 3, 2013.

94. Mark Landler, “Civilian Deaths Due to Drones Are Not Many, Obama Says,” New York Times , January 31, 2012.

95. Geoffrey Ingersoll, “Obama Finally Opens Up about the Massive Drone War,” Business Insider , September 12, 2012.

96. Ken Dilanian, “Congress Zooms in on Drone Killings,” Los Angeles Times , June 25, 2012, http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jun/25/nation/la-na-drone-oversight-20120625/2.

97. Greg Miller, “Brennan Defends Drone Strike Policy,” Washington Post , February 7, 2013.

98. Scott Wilson, “Obama Nominates Chuck Hagel for Defense, John Brennan for CIA,” Washington Post , January 27, 2013.

99. Andrew Lebovich, “Daily Brief: Officials Question Drone Strike Timing—Report,” AfPak Channel, Foreign Policy , August 3, 2011, http://afpak.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/08/03/daily_brief_officials_question_drone_strike_timing_report.

100. Tara Mckelevey, “Inside the Killing Machine,” Newsweek , February 13, 2011.

101. Shane, “CIA Is Disputed.”

102. Brian Mockenhaupt, “We’ve Seen the Future and Its Unmanned,” Esquire , October 14, 2009.

103. Ken Dilanian, “CIA Drones May Be Avoiding Pakistani Civilians,” Los Angeles Times , February 22, 2011.

104. Craig Whitlock and Greg Miller, “U.S. Covert Paramilitary Presence in Afghanistan Much Larger than Thought,” Washington Post , September 22, 2011.

105. Robin Wright and Joby Warrick, “U.S. Steps Up Unilateral Strikes in Pakistan,” Washington Post , March 27, 2008.

106. Woodward, Obama’s Wars , 6.

107. Rosenberg, Gorman, and Solomon, “Pakistan Lends Support.”

108. Nathan Hodge, “US Sharing Predator Video with Afghanistan, Pakistan,” Danger Room (blog), Wired , November 19, 2008, http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2008/11/in-a-presentati/.

109. Haq Nawaz Khan, “Rising Drone Attacks Hint at Strengthened CIA Spy Network in Waziristan,” Pakistan Today , October 11, 2010.

110. “New Al Qaeda Book on ‘Muslim Spies’ Paints Picture of Weakened Group, Experts Say,” Fox News, July 9, 2009, http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,531161,00.html.

111. “Jihadist Website Posts Al Libi’s ‘Guidance on the Ruling of the Muslim Spy,’” Open Source Center, June 30, 2009, http://www.fas.org/irp/dni/osc/libi.pdf.

112. Ibid.

113. Adam Rawnsley, “CIA Drone Targeting Tech Revealed, Qaeda Claims,” Danger Room (blog), Wired , July 8, 2009, http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/07/infrared-beacons-guiding-cia-drone-strikes-qaeda-claims/.

114. Declan Walsh, “Mysterious ‘Chip’ Is CIA’s Latest Weapon against Al-Qaida Targets Hiding in Pakistan’s Tribal Belt,” Guardian , May 31, 2009.

115. Rawnsley, “CIA Drone Targeting Tech Revealed.”

116. Sami Yousafzai, “Predators on the Hunt in Pakistan,” Newsweek , June 30, 2009.

117. “Al Qaeda Admits US Drone Attacks Working,” CBS News, July 10, 2009.

118. Yousafzai, “Predators on the Hunt in Pakistan.”

119. Bill Roggio, “Taliban Execute Four ‘Spies’ in Pakistan’s Northwest,” Long War Journal , February 5, 2011, http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2011/02/taliban_execute_4_sp.php.

120. Anthony Loyd, “US Drone Strikes in Pakistan Tribal Areas Boost Support for Taliban,” Times , March 10, 2010.

121. Zia Khan, “Taliban Create Cell to Hunt ‘Spies’ Assisting US Drones,” Express Tribune , March 28, 2011.

122. Zia Ur Rehman, “The Khurusan Mujahideen Seek to Eliminate Espionage in Waziristan,” Terrorism Monitor 9, no. 13 (April 1, 2011): 3–5.

123. Bill Roggio, “Taliban Execute 4 Tribesmen ‘Spying for America’ in North Waziristan,” Long War Journal , March 1, 2011, http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2011/03/taliban_execute_4_tr.php.

124. David Rohde, “The Drone War,” Reuters Magazine , January 17, 2012.

125. Joby Warrick and Peter Finn, “Amid Outrage over Civilian Deaths in Pakistan, CIA Turns to Smaller Missiles,” Washington Post , April 26, 2010.

126. Lockheed Martin, “Lockheed Martin’s Scorpion Successful in Test Flight,” news release, June 21, 2010, http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/news/press-releases/2010/june/LockheedMartinsSCORPIONSu.html.

127. Steve Emerson, “In Defense of Drones: The ACLU Tries to Take Away an Effective and Humane Tool in the US Arsenal,” New York Post , October 16, 2010.

128. “Drones in Pakistan: Out of the Blue,” Economist , July 30, 2011.

129. Indo-Asian News Service, “Human Intelligence Aids Drone Attacks in Pakistan,” India-Forums, December 30, 2010, http://www.india-forums.com/news/pakistan/301035-human-intelligence-aid-drone-attacks-in-pakistan.htm.

130. “Ten More Killed in NWA Drone Attacks,” PakTribune, March 18, 2010, http://paktribune.com/news/10-more-killed-in-NWA-drone-attacks-225651.html.

131. David Rohde and Kristen Mulvihill, A Rope and a Prayer: A Kidnapping from Two Sides (New York: Viking, 2010), 182, 239.

132. Salman Masood and Pir Zubair Shah, “CIA Drones Kill Civilians in Pakistan,” New York Times , March 17, 2011.