Obama to Nominate John Brennan for CIA Director | Brennan has spearheaded the drone program and managed the kill lists Obama uses to target people
Obama Nominates John Brennan for CIA Director
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US Drone Strike in Pakistan Kills Five, Injures Three
US Drone Strike in Pakistan Kills Five, Injures Three | The identities of the people targeted are not known
Iranian Jets Fired on US Predator Drone
Two Iranian fighter jets fired on an unarmed US Air Force Predator drone last week, according to CNN. The drone was fired upon but not hit, and the Obama administration did not disclose information about the incident, keeping it from the American public just days...
US Drones Kill Up To 3 in Pakistan, ‘Not Clear’ Whether They Had ‘Any Link to Militancy’
A US drone fired two missiles at near Pakistan's border with Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing at least one person and possibly three, although officials said "It was not clear whether the three dead were men or women or whether they had any link to militancy,"...
Top Obama Adviser: Awlaki’s 16-Year-Old Son Should Have Had a More Responsible Father If He Wanted Us Not to Kill Him
When Robert Gibbs, former White House Press Secretary and a senior adviser to the Obama campaign, was asked why the administration killed the 16-year old son of suspected al-Qaeda member and US citizen Anwar al-Awlaki via a drone strike last year, he said it was the...
Obama Orders Drones, Special Ops on Standby to Kill Benghazi Attack Suspects
President Obama has ordered drones to fly over northern Africa and has put special operations strike forces on standby, readied for orders to kill suspects as soon as investigators say they've identified those responsible for the attack on the US Consulate in...
Drone Strike Kills Five Alleged Al-Qaeda Suspects in Yemen
A drone strike bombed two cars in southern Yemen on Thursday, killing five people allegedly suspected of belonging to the al-Qaeda-linked group Ansar al-Sharia. Witnesses said the drone fired four missiles at the two cars as they travelled through the town of Saeed in...
Yemen President Warns of Civil War ‘Worse Than Afghanistan’
Yemeni President Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi warned on Saturday that his country, still unstable after a US-backed transition ousted his predecessor Ali Abdullah Saleh, risks a descent into a civil war "worse than Afghanistan." Hadi boasted about what he described as...
Yemen Says No. 2 in AQAP Has Been Killed in Airstrike
Said al-Shihri, allegedly the second-in-command of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), has been killed in an operation in southern Yemen, government officials say. Al-Shihri was reportedly killed with six others in the Hadramawt area last Wednesday in what some...
Congress Drags Feet on Obama’s ‘License to Kill’
Most of Congress is refusing to stand up to the Obama administration's claim of authority on targeted killings, especially of American citizens, despite a few limited attempts to demand transparency. Almost a year after the Obama administration assassinated three...
