The sensors are supported by drone aircraft known locally as "desert phantoms".
The New America Foundation estimates that between 1, 953 and 3, 279 have been killed by drone attacks in Pakistan alone, of whom roughly one in 10 were civilians.
His preferred use of force when dealing with terrorism is a protracted campaign of assassination by drone strike which he says has succeeded fabulously, yet which curiously requires indefinite expansion.
Those same military voices remind everyone there will be necessary bomb damage assessments -- possibly by drone, aircraft or satellite -- in the wake of any strike to determine what was damaged or missed.
For one thing, on September 10th, al Qaeda's Ayman al-Zawahiri, had issued a public call for retribution against the United States for a recent assassination by drone strike of one of his senior commanders.
The Associated Press in a rare on-the-ground look unaccompanied by military or security visited two Afghan villages in Nangarhar province near the border with Pakistan to talk to residents who reported that they had been affected by drone strikes.
A. During his thirteen-hour stand, Paul drew attention to an often overlooked fact: that, of the thousands killed by drone strikes in countries where the United States has never officially declared war Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen, the Philippines, and possibly others at least four were American citizens.
Mr. Obama, by contrast, would have us believe that the problem in notonly just al Qaeda but that that threat is pretty much a thing of the past, thanks to bin Laden's elimination and the decimation primarily by drone strikes of others among its leadership and rank and file.
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Meanwhile, it will probably hope to increase missile strikes in North Waziristan by its drone aircraft.
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Al-Wahayishi's house was hit by a drone and his brother was killed, the officials said.
It is unclear how many people have been killed by American drone strikes around the world, but Sen.
Fahd al-Quso, a senior figure in Yemen-based al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) was killed by a drone strike.
Strikes by American drone aircraft against suspected extremists in Pakistan's tribal areas make a mockery of the country's sovereignty.
Human rights groups in the United States are particularly aggrieved by the targeted killing of al-Awlaki, who was killed by a drone.
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Al-Awlaki was killed September 30, 2011, by a drone strike in Yemen.
About the fourth, there had been no mistake: Anwar Awlaki, who was killed by a drone in northern Yemen on September 30, 2011.
At the time of bin Laden's death on May 1, 2011, core al Qaeda had already been severely degraded by CIA drone strikes.
In the adjacent tribal region, a missile believed fired by a drone overnight struck a madrassa, a religious school, a Pakistani intelligence official said.
An augmented-reality marker representing the port or airlock will then be overlaid on the image sent back to their handset by the drone's cameras.
If this bill passes, evidence of a person stabbing someone to death, if inadvertently collected by a drone, would be inadmissible in any criminal or civil proceeding.
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Mullah Nazir is also one of only three top level Pakistani Taliban commanders to have been killed by a drone, the others being Nek Mohammad and Baitullah Mehsud.
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Human rights groups in the United States are particularly aggrieved by the targeted killing of al-Awlaki, an American citizen who was killed by a drone along with his teenage son.
According to senior U.S. counterterrorism officials, al Qaeda's leadership bench has been so thinned by the drone campaign that there are only two real leaders of the organization left: bin Laden's successor as overall leader of the group, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and Abu Yahya al-Libi.
When it is technically possible for a target identified by a drone or satellite to be struck ten minutes later, the idea of having to spend several days winning approval from the leaders of 19 countries (as during the Kosovo war) is even more unattractive to military commanders.
Pakistani news outlets reported twice in 2008 that Gadahn had been killed by a predator drone strike, but al Qaeda then released a video message by Gadahn to prove he was still alive.
Noor Khan is a Pakistani man who says his father was killed by a US drone strike.
The attack may have been in retaliation for the killing of five al-Qaeda members by an American drone.
At least three suspected al-Qaeda militants have been killed by a US drone strike in Yemen's south-western al-Bayda province, say local officials.
Their leader, Baitullah Mehsud, was killed in August by an American drone.
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