81. “Up to Fourteen Dead in US Missile Strike, Officials,” Agence France-Presse, November 7, 2008, http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jlbsctRKE5_0vBDyyTTr7nkLW0yg.
82. “US Drone Fires Missile into Pakistan, Up to 12 Dead,” Reuters, November 14, 2008.
83. “US Drone Strike Kills 12 in Pakistan,” Times, November 14, 2008; “US Drone Attack in Miranshah Kills 11,” Geo.TV, November 14, 2008.
84. “US Drone Strike Kills 12 in Pakistan.”
85. Bob Woodward, Obama’s Wars (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010), 26.
86. “Good Riddance,” Daily Times, January 21, 2010.
87. Hassan Zaidi, “Army Chief Wanted More Drone Support,” Dawn, May 20, 2011.
88. Ibid.
89. Tim Lister, “WikiLeaks: Pakistan Quietly Approved Drone Attacks, US Special Units,” CNN, December 2, 2010, http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/12/01/wikileaks.pakistan.drones/index.html.
90. “US Drone Strikes Fail to Mobilize Pakistan Masses,” Dawn, October 10, 2011.
91. Tayyab Siddiqui, “Pakistan’s Drone Dilema,” Dawn, July 18, 2010.
92. “Wikileaks: Gilani Open to Strikes on ‘Right People,’” Express Tribune, December 1, 2010.
93. Gul, Most Dangerous Place, 206.
94. Karman Yousef, “Denying Wikileak Disclosure: Kayani Sought US Drone Support Only for Surveillance,” Express Tribune, May 21, 2011.
95. Los Angeles Times, cited in “US Drones Back Up Pakistani Offensive,” Newser.com, October 23, 2009, http://www.newser.com/story/72428/us-drones-back-up-pakistani-offensive.html.
96. “Wikileaks: Kayani Wanted More Drone Strikes in Pakistan,” Express Tribune, May 20, 2011.
97. Gul, Most Dangerous Place, 216–17.
98. Matthew Rosenberg, Siobhan Gorman, and Jay Solomon, “Pakistan Lends Support for US Missile Strikes,” Wall Street Journal, February 18, 2009.
99. Peter Bergen and Katherine Tiedemann, “The Drone War: Are Predators Our Best Option or Our Worst Enemy?” New Republic, June 3, 2009.
100. “US Officials Working to Sway Hearts and Minds in Islamabad,” Eurasia Insight, July 8, 2009.
101. “US Drone Attack Kills Four Militants in Pakistan,” ThaiIndian.com, November 19, 2008.
102. “Suspected US Missile Kills 3 in Pakistan,” CNN, November 29, 2008, http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/11/29/pakistan.missile/index.html.
103. “Transatlantic Plot (2006),” New York Times, July 8, 2010.
104. “US Kills Alleged Transatlantic Plot Leader, Report Says,” Guardian, November 22, 2008.
105. “Suspected Missile Kills 3 in Pakistan.”
106. “Suspected US Drone in Pakistan Kills 7,” Reuters, December 12, 2008.
107. “US Drone Strike Kills Two in Waziristan,” Geo.TV, December 15, 2008.
108. “At Least Eight Killed in Suspected Drone Attack in Pakistan,” VOAnews.com, December 22, 2008; “At Least Eight Dead in Missile Strike, Officials,” Times of India, December 22, 2008.
109. Peter Bergen and Katherine Tiedemann, The Drone War (Washington, DC: New America Foundation, June 3, 2009).
110. “Drone Attacks in Pakistan,” BuzzPK, March 17, 2010, http://www.buzzpk.com/drone-attacks-in-pakistan/.
7. WHO IS BEING KILLED IN THE DRONE STRIKES?
1. Jeffrey Smith, Candace Rondeaux, and Joby Warrick, “2 US Airstrikes Offer Concrete Sign of Obama’s Pakistan Policy,” Washington Post, January 24, 2009.
2. Ibid.; “President Obama Orders Drone Attacks,” Times, January 23, 2009.
3. Tara McKelvey, “Covering Obama’s Secret War,” Columbia Journalism Review, May–June 2011.
4. “Obama Is the Rambo of Drone Warfare,” Nation, October 3, 2011.
5. Roggio and Mayer, “Charting the Data for US Airstrikes in Pakistan.”
6. “Drones and the Man,” Economist, July 30, 2011.
7. Entous, Gorman, and Barnes, “US Tightens Drone Rules.”
8. Jessica Yellin, “Drone Program Something You ‘Struggle With’ Obama Says,” Political Ticker (blog), CNN, September 10, 2012, http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/09/10/drone-program-something-you-struggle-with-obama-says/.
9. Gul, Most Dangerous Place, xxv.
10. Daniel Klaidman, Kill or Capture: The War on Terror and the Soul of the Obama Presidency (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012), 118.
11. Bill Adair, “In 2008 Obama Vowed to Kill Osama Bin Laden,” Tampa Bay Times, May 1, 2011.
12. Joby Warrick, “Jan. 1 Attack by CIA Killed Two Leaders of Al Qaeda,” Washington Post, January 9, 2009; “5 Killed in South Waziristan as US Drone Fired 3 Missiles in Karkot,” Nation, January 27, 2009.
13. For a summary of all HVTs killed in the drone campaign, see Bill Roggio and Alexander Mayer’s useful archive “Senior al Qaeda and Taliban Leaders Killed in US Airstrikes in Pakistan, 2004–2013,” Long War Journal, http://www.longwarjournal.org/pakistan-strikes-hvts.php (accessed February 2013).
14. For an excellent account of the IMU, see Ahmed Rashid’s book Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002).
15. Daniel Witter, Uzbek Militancy in Pakistan’s Tribal Region (Washington, DC: Institute for the Study of War, January 27, 2011).
16. S. H. Khan, “US Strike Kills Eight Taliban in Pakistan, Officials,” Agence France-Presse, August 27, 2009, http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gN_YaxdMssvvnU_CgoXAjjV-ZaMA.
17. “Frankfurt Airport Terror Plan ‘Massive,’” Herald Sun, September 5, 2007.
18. “U.S.: Senior Al Qaeda Planner Likely Killed,” CNN, December 11, 2009, http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/12/11/pakistan.qaeda.operative/index.html.
19. Griff Witte, “U.S. Drone Strikes Kill 16 in Pakistani Region Thought to Be Al-Qaeda Home Base,” Washington Post, December 18, 2009.
20. “Leading Taliban Leader Haji Omar Killed in Drone Strike,” Free Library, December 31, 2009, http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Leading+Taliban+leader+Haji+Omar+killed+in+drone+attacks.-a0216247579.
21. Mary Louise Kelly, “Bin Laden Son Reported Killed in Pakistan,” National Public Radio, July 22, 2009, http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106903109.