March 25, 2013 A new interactive graphic, which uses the Bureau’s drone data, has brought a fresh perspective to the CIA’s nine-year drone campaign in Pakistan. A team of developers has pulled together every known ...
By Alice K Ross The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, October 15, 2012 Funeral prayers for the victims of a suspected US drone in North Waziristan (Photo: Getty) The US government must release its estimates of ...
” … the CIA killed innocent people merely on the suspicion of being militants. … Javed Rana | Press TV, Islamabad The year 2010, US drone attacks killed Pakistani civilians on an average of three ...
The strikes last a moment, but the consequences last forever. Six families explain how Obama’s secret drone war has left them struggling for answers after loved ones were wiped out without warning What happens in ...
“… ‘I think a lot about why they kill us innocent people,’ says Zubair Ur Rehman, a young man who survived a drone strike that killed his grandmother while she was chopping vegetables outdoors. …” ...
Washington (CNN) – Ben Carson says he wouldn’t use drones to kill undocumented immigrants — but he’d order strikes on the caves used to transport people across the United States’ southern border. “There are caves that ...
“… General William Westmoreland … expressed the vision most concisely in October, 1969: ‘On the battlefield of the future … enemy forces will be located, tracked and targeted almost instantaneueously through the use of data links, computer ...
Monthly Updates on the Covert War January 2014 Update Bureau of Investigative Journalism All actions 2002 – January 31 2014* Confirmed US drone strikes: 59-69 Total reported killed: 287-423 Civilians reported killed: 24-71 Children reported killed: ...
“… ‘Air Force investigators blamed the LN-100 for a crash of a Predator drone carrying a Hellfire missile in the North African Republic of Djibouti.’ In that event, ‘the device recorded the drone’s altitude to ...
The Yemeni government paid the families of those killed or injured in a U.S. drone strike last year more than $1 million, according to documents that provide new details on secret condolence payments seen as evidence that civilians ...
By Anthony Garreffa Back in 2011, the Islamic Republic took down one of the United States’ Lockheed Martin Sentinel RQ-170 drones, but between that event and now, Iran has been working on making a copy of ...
By Sherwood Ross President Obama’s drone attacks on Middle Eastern nations are not just lawless war crimes. As the “murderous drone campaign is both widespread and systematic it thus qualifies as a crime against humanity ...
The International News Magazine, February 3, 2014 Citizen activists from the east coast to the west coast will be in court this week defending their actions protesting the United States Military and Central Intelligence Agency weaponized ...
July 23, 2013 A secret document obtained by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism reveals for the first time the Pakistan government’s internal assessment of dozens of drone strikes, and shows scores of civilian casualties. The ...
Photo: A house in Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan destroyed by a drone missile in 2008. Eighteen people including Islamist militants were killed. (Reuters) Joint report with Human Rights Watch judges US attacks in ...
U.S. drone strikes are creating cadres of anti-American fighters, furious over the killing and wounding of thousands of civilians. Far from keeping drone attacks “on a very tight leash,” as President Obama has claimed, they have ...
Apr 20, 2013 While the world sympathizes with the US over the Boston Marathon bombings, anti-drone activists are asking questions about the relative silence in the case of hundreds of Pakistani civilians including children killed in more ...
“… What could be more cowardly than for some unknown, unseen, unannounced killer to blow apart and maim innocent men women and children, without any risk to himself? …” Paris. As I write this, we ...
“… According to Britain’s Bureau of Investigative Journalism, CIA drone attacks in Pakistan have killed up to 3,577 people since 2004, up to 884 of them civilians, including 197 children. …” ISLAMABAD: Even as Islamabad ...
” … The CIA’s claim that it could neither confirm nor deny whether it has any drone records was inadequate because the government, including President Barack Obama himself, has clearly acknowledged a drone program, the ...
By Amna Baig (Excerpt) The Express-Tribune Blogs, February 17, 2013 With John O Brennan’s brainchild, the ‘play book’, almost ready for the president to sign and the leak of the Justice Department’s document explaining the ...
By Sherwood Ross Scoop, February 3, 2013 Polite Fascism has come to America. If this concept sounds preposterous to Americans it may sound otherwise to foreigners who are getting the worst of it. The public ...
By Joshua Kopstein The Verge, February 1, 2013 As unmanned aerial vehicles continue to populate the skies above battlefields and college campuse faster than anyone can count them, the US government has taken a keen interest ...
EDITORIAL: A question of lethal force Wyden wants answers from Obama’s CIA nominee January 15, 2013Sen. Ron Wyden has a simple, chilling question for John Brennan, President Obama’s nominee to be director of the Central ...
By Doug Oakley Inside Bay Area, December 16, 2012 BERKELEY — City leaders on Tuesday will consider a proposal to declare the air here a “No Drone Zone” to prevent law enforcement from using small ...
By Chris Woods The Bureau of Investigative Reporting, November 1, 2012 The Washington Post: is it telling the whole story? Alongside the Washington Post’s latest blockbuster reports on the Obama administration’s drone kill list is ...
By Gary Martin Houston Chronicle, November 24, 2012 WASHINGTON – Are unmanned aircraft, known to have difficulty avoiding collisions, safe to use in America’s crowded airspace? And would their widespread use for surveillance result in ...
Family that lost father in Waziristan missile strike launches claim in the High Court By Terri Judd The Independent, October 24, 2012 British intelligence officers could be guilty of encouraging murder, or even war crimes, ...
By Nathan Freed Wessler ACLU National Security Project, March 22, 2012 Today, nine organizations submitted a friend-of-the-court brief in support of the ACLU’s Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking records about the CIA’s use of ...
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David Wichner Arizona Daily Star | April 25, 2011 It’s less than 2 feet long and 4 inches around. But Raytheon is designing its smallest air-launched weapon – the Small Tactical Munition – to help ...
By Chris Woods The Bureau of Investigative Journalism | February 18, 2011 President Obama’s covert drone war inside Pakistan is on hold after the arrest of Raymond Davis, a US government employee believed by many ...
” … the CIA killed innocent people merely on the suspicion of being militants. …” Javed Rana | Press TV, Islamabad The year 2010, US drone attacks killed Pakistani civilians on an average of three ...
No doubt about it, news reporters baritoned a few months back, an al Qaedan had bitten the dust: Fahad Mohammed Ahmed Killed by US Drone: Report TheNews | October 07, 2010 WASHINGTON: One of the FBI’s most ...
Ready for takeoff: Aurora unveils advanced military drones By Jason Browne The Dispatch | November 23, 2010 The new Orion UAV was unveiled at Aurora Flight Sciences, Monday. When bombs strike international terrorists in years ...
