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27. Aaron Katersky, “Faisal Shahzad Pleads Guilty in Times Square Car Bomb Plot, Warns of More Attacks,” ABC, June 21, 2010, http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/faisal-shahzad-pleads-guilty-times-square-car-bomb/story?id=10970094.

28. William Dalrymple, “Why Are the Taliban Winning in Afghanistan?” New Statesman , June 22, 2010.

29. Benjamin Weiser and Colin Moynihan, “A Guilty Plea in Plot to Bomb Times Square,” New York Times , June 22, 2010.

30. “Pakistan Taliban Claim New York Bomb Attempt,” Pkaffairs.com, http://www.pkaffairs.com/news.aspx?pageId=5278(accessed December 2012).

31. Sami Yousufzai, “Pakistan Taliban Source: Times Square Bombing Attempt Was ‘Revenge against America,’” Newsweek , May 10, 2010.

32. David Sanger, “US Pressure Helps Militants Focus Efforts,” New York Times , May 7, 2010.

33. Anqoinette Crosby and Greg Miller, “CIA Shifts Focus to Killing Targets,” Washington Post , August 30, 2011.

34. Zahid Hussain, “Attacker of CIA Is Linked to Taliban,” Wall Street Journal , January 11, 2010.

35. “CIA Bomber Shown Vowing Revenge,” BBC News, January 9, 2010, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8449875.stm.

36. Scott Shane and Eric Schmitt, “C.I.A. Deaths Prompt Surge in U.S. Drone Strikes,” New York Times , January 22, 2010.

37. “Pakistan Tribesman to Sue CIA over Drone Deaths,” Agence France-Presse, November 29, 2010.

38. Amir Mir, “A Revolving CIA Door in Pakistan,” Asia Times , August 5, 2011.

39. Reza Sayah, “Pakistani Man Sues US over Drone Strikes,” CNN, December 2, 2010, http://articles.cnn.com/2010-12-01/world/pakistan.drone.attack.lawsuit_1_drone-strike-drone-attacks-innocent-victims.

40. “Pakistani Role Suspected in Revealing US Spy’s Name,” New York Times , December 17, 2010.

41. Sayah, “Pakistani Man Sues US.”

42. Code Pink, “San Diegans to Protest Predator Drone Makers and General Atomics CEO’s Home,” press release, May 17, 2010, http://www.codepink4peace.org/article.php?id=5418.

43. Cindy Sheehan, “First Protest against CIA Drone Attacks Coming to Langley, Virginia,” Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox (blog), http://www.cindysheehanssoapbox.com/peacePage.html.

44. Farhan Bokhari, “Anti-Drone Protestors Blocked from Target, but Still Push Message,” CBS News, October 8, 2012, http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57527806/anti-drone-protesters-blocked-from-target-but-still-push-message/.

45. Tanver Ahmed, “Drone Attacks in Violation of International Laws,” Daily Times , October 3, 2012.

46. Deborah Dupre, “Drones Kill Kids: Occupy DC Rights Defenders Shut Museum with Drone Exhibit,” Examiner.com, October 8, 2011, http://www.examiner.com/article/drones-kill-kids-occupy-d-c-rights-defenders-shut-museum-with-drone-exhibit.

47. “Drone Protests Lead to Arrests at Tucson’s Raytheon Missile Systems,” Warisacrime.org, October 4, 2011, http://warisacrime.org/content/drone-protest-leads-arrest-tucsons-raytheon-missile-systems.

48. Ibid.

49. Dave Tobin, “37 People Who Protest at Hancock Air Base Near Syracuse against the Use of Drones Are Arrested on Friday,” Syracuse.com, April 22, 2011, http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2011/04/war_protestors_arrested_at_han.html.

50. “Drone Debate: Are Remotely Controlled Weapons Ethical,” Syracuse.com, December 13, 2009, http://blog.syracuse.com/opinion/2009/12/drone_debate_are_remotely_cont.html.

51. Victoria Ross, “Use of Drones Is Both Immoral and Counterproductive,” Buffalonews.com, November 2, 2010, http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-26088616.html.

52. Denis Kucinich, “Drones Direct Hit upon Rule of Law,” Daily Kos , August 17, 2011, http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/08/17/1007855/-Drones-Direct-Hit-upon-Rule-of-Law.

53. Peter Singer, “Do Drones Undermine Democracy?” New York Times , January 21, 2012.

54. “Flight of the Drones,” Economist , October 8, 2011.

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

56. Cassandra Vinograd, “UK Police Arrest 22 in Anti-Drone Demonstration,” Salon , December 2, 2011.

57. “Occupy DC: No to Drone Strikes,” Dawn , October 11, 2011.

58. Ian Harris, “Why Sci-Fi Weapons Don’t Make Us Safer,” CounterPunch , September 13, 2011, http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/09/13/drone-warfare/.

59. Ibid.

60. Edith M. Lederer, “UN Investigator Warns Use of Drones May Violate International Law,” CNS News, October 28, 2009, http://cnsnews.com/news/article/un-investigator-warns-us-use-drones-may-violate-international-law.

61. “US Use of Drones Queried by UN,” New York Times , October 27, 2009.

62. Harold Hongju Koh, “The Obama Administration and International Law” (speech, Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law, Washington, DC, March 25, 2010), http://www.state.gov/s/l/releases/remarks/139119.htm.

63. “UN Special Rappateur Philip Alston Responds to US Defense of Drone Attacks’ Legality,” Democracy Now, April 10, 2010, http://www.democracynow.org/2010/4/1/drones.

64. “Defending Drones: The Laws of War and the Right to Self Defense,” Washington Post , April 13, 2010, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/12/AR2010041204086.html.

65. James Meek, “Fort Hood Gunman Nadal Hasan ‘Is a Hero,’” Daily News , November 9, 2009.

66. Lauren Frayer, “Times Square Suspect Reportedly Inspired by Radical Cleric,” AOLNews.com, May 7, 2010, http://www.aolnews.com/2010/05/07/shahzad-reportedly-inspired-by-al-awlaki/.

67. Mark Mazzeti, Eric Schmitt, and Robert F. Worth, “American Born Al Qaeda Leader Is Killed by Missile in Yemen,” New York Times , September 30, 2011, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/01/world/middleeast/anwar-al-awlaki-is-killed-in-yemen.html.

68. Carol Williams, “Awlaki’s Death Rekindles Debate on Targeting Americans,” Los Angeles Times , September 30, 2011.

69. “Awlaki Trained Suspected Christmas Jet Bomber How to Detonate Underwear, Document Reveals,” Fox News, October 4, 2011, http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/10/04/al-awlaki-trained-suspected-christmas-day-jet-bomber-how-to-detonate-underwear/; Ken Dilanian. “US Says Cleric Slain by Drone in Yemen Aided in Airliner Plot,” Los Angeles Times , February 11, 2012.

70. Thomas Joscelyn, “Awlaki’s Emails to Terror Plotter Show Operational Role,” Long War Journal , March 2, 2011, http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2011/03/anwar_al_awlakis_ema.php.

71. Charlie Savage, “Secret Memo Made Legal Case to Kill a Citizen,” New York Times , October 9, 2011.

72. “US Argument for Legal Drone Strikes Revealed,” Al Jazeera, February 6, 2013, http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2013/02/20132517311796860.html.

73. “Fiery American-Born Qaeda Militant Is Killed in Yemen by CIA Strike,” New York Times , October 1, 2010.

74. Scott Shane, “US Approval of Killing of Cleric Causes Unease,” New York Times , May 13, 2010.

75. Ibid.

76. “The Drone Wars: Weapons Like the Predator Kill Far Fewer Civilians,” Wall Street Journal , January 9, 2010.

77. Emerson, “In Defense of Drones.”

78. Terry Frieden, “Judge Throws Out Assassination Lawsuit,” CNN, December 7, 2010, http://articles.cnn.com/2010-12-07/us/lawsuit.al.awlaki_1_case-on-procedural-grounds-bates-courts.

79. ACLU, “ACLU Seeks Information on Predator Drone Program,” press release, March 16, 2010, http://www.aclu.org/national-security/aclu-seeks-information-predator-drone-program.

80. Dominic Rushe, Chris McGreal, Jason Burke, and Luke Harding, “Anwar al-Awlaki Death: US Keeps Role under Wraps to Manage Yemen Fallout,” Guardian , September 30, 2011.