UPDATE 20100411
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/11/magazine/11Trade-t.html
It’s a small world after all … as in ‘birds of a feather… ”
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January 5, 2010
News – Reuters – The Colombia FARC and Al Qaeda Triangle Trade in Terror
January 3, 2010
Armed UAVs – Improved Encription, GEOINT, and HUMINT needed … to Drone or not to Drone
UPDATE 20101216
The Atlantic and Peter Bergen plus excellent 3D AfPak Waziristan map-summary of strikes -
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/12/the-drone-wars/8304/
UPDATE 20100620
US Border drone flights suspended after comms breakdown
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/06/border-drone-breaks-comms-with-pilot-flights-suspended/
UPDATE 20100607
UN Drone Report & NYTimes article
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/03/world/03drones.html
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/14session/A.HRC.14.24.Add6.pdf
UPDATE 20100413
Robert Wright in NYTimes – The Price of Assassination
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/13/title-2/
UPDATE 20100405
A stepped up campaign after Khost
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/05/world/asia/05drones.html
UPDATE 20100303
Interactive maps and stats of the drone campaign in AfPak
http://counterterrorism.newamerica.net/drones
Point…
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/MUMA-7ZC99B?OpenDocument
“Of the 44 predator strikes carried out by US drones in the tribal areas of Pakistan over the past 12 months, only five were able to hit their actual targets, killing five key Al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders, but at the cost of over 700 innocent civilians.”
Wired Magazine’s Danger Room exposes unencripted UAV signals being used by Insurgents… sobering
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/12/drone-feds-gave-insurgents-early-warning-report/
NPR http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100131283
& Counterpoint…
RAND Corp’s Seth G. Jones – Take the War to Pakistan
http://www.rand.org/commentary/2009/12/04/NYT.html
December 13, 2009
News – New York Times – War Without Borders : How U.S. Became Stage for Mexican Drug Feud
UPDATE 20100224
US Agents to be embedded with Mexican DoD and Counter Drug ops
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35556681/ns/world_news-washington_post/
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/09/us/09border.html
Open source intel recording Cartel Beheadings from 2006 – 2009 (Source: Dr. R. J. Bunker, L. Campbell)
