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Kathy Kelly, Voices for Creative Nonviolence: ''One question Fazillah cannot answer for her son is whether anyone asked the question at all of whether to kill his father. Forbes Magazine reports that the Air Force has sixty-five to seventy thousand analysts processing drone video surveillance; a Rand review states they actually need half again that number to properly handle the data. Asked to point to the human who actually made the decision to kill her husband, she can only point to another machine.''

http://www.truth-out.org/ghost-and-machine/1330611742

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The Ghost and the Machine

By Kathy Kelly with research by the Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers

Aymal s father was sitting in a garden with four other men. A weaponized drone, what we used to call an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle or UAV, was flying, unseen, overhead, and fired missiles into the garden, killing all five men.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30687.htm



Protests grow as civilian toll of Obama s drone war on terrorism is laid bare

Outcry from innocent victims' families as figures show almost a third of strikes fail to hit targets

http://ind.pn/Ai6EdM


From Information Clearing House

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Drone follies

Independent Institute
by Anthony Gregory

03/05/12

This really is the kind of state the U.S. has become: One in which there is no real expectation of privacy from the government. First they were used in wars, and then in immigration control, and now in everyday law enforcement. How many drones will fill the American skies a decade from now? Two decades? Will it seem quaint for those of us who remember when law enforcement didn t rely on such total militarization to chime in, once in a while, hearkening back to simpler days?

http://blog.independent.org/2012/03/05/drone-follies/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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