The sensors are supported by drone aircraft known locally as "desert phantoms".
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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Al-Wahayishi's house was hit by a drone and his brother was killed, the officials said.
Al-Awlaki was killed September 30, 2011, by a drone strike in Yemen.
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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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.
Mullah Nazir, who has reportedly been killed by a US drone strike, made many enemies as a powerful militant commander in Pakistan's volatile South Waziristan region.
Yemeni defence ministry officials told Associated Press that the militants killed were travelling in a car and that it was hit by a missile believed to have been fired by a US drone, although this has not been confirmed.
But Sunday's mock air raids by Israeli jets on villages in southern Lebanon suggest that Israel believes the drone was launched by Hezbollah.
Not only does the drone likely use advanced coatings and materials to make it difficult to detect by radar, but the drone also likely has the U.S.'s most-cutting-edge sensor technology, including sophisticated cameras and listening devices.
In fact, Congress is briefed on drone strikes by both the military and CIA but in closed, classified hearings.
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But these speculators prefer to spend their days in the company of others like themselves, surrounded by PCs and the drone of CNBC.
The RQ-170 Sentinel is an advanced high-altitude surveillance drone used by both the US Air Force and the CIA. It does not carry weapons.
By crunching data from drone sensors and military databases, it might be possible to predict, for example, that a strike from a missile could damage a nearby religious building.
Shadow, a drone used by the American, Australian and Swedish armies, is too light to be able to carry Hellfires and is thus, at the moment, restricted to reconnaissance duties.
U.S. officials briefed on the drone program say the administration's intent in the speech was to take the heat off the controversial drone strikes by promising future action would be done by the military when possible.
David Deptula, a retired Air Force three-star general who was deputy chief of staff for intelligence, said the military needs to measure its drone requirements by the amount of data and intelligence needed by troops to accomplish their mission.
It is that drone programme, acknowledged by the US government but never detailed, that will fall under the Senate spotlight.
Al-Awlaki was killed in Yemen last year by a U.S. drone strike.
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In this demonstration, the drone was remote controlled by the presenter.
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It was the first strike by a U.S. drone aircraft since the May 11 election that brought to power Nawaz Sharif, the conservative former prime minister who was ousted in a military coup in 1999.
The lion's share of U.S. drone missions are flown by Air Force pilots stationed at Creech, a tiny outpost in the barren Nevada desert, 20 miles north of a state prison and adjacent to a one-story casino.
Mexican Attorney General spokeswoman Rocio Torres denied her country's involvement with the drone Friday, but later in the day, another Mexican official said the drone was being operated by the Ministry of Public Security and was following a target at the time of the mechanical malfunction.
Judicial Watch announced today that it received documents on March 4, 2013 from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) that raise new questions about close ties between Anwar al Aulaqi, the U.S.-born terrorist assassinated by a U.S. drone in Yemen on September 30, 2011, and Nawaf al Hazmi and Khalid al Mihdhar, two of the five hijackers who attacked the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.
This goateed, incipiently balding white-collar drone is put in the hospital by a game of darts, and then goes home.
Many in Pakistan have accused the U.S. of using drone strikes to wreck past attempts by Islamabad to forge peace deals with its homegrown insurgents.
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