21. Alex Rodriguez and David Zucchino, “US Drone Attacks in Pakistan Get Mixed Response,” Los Angeles Times, May 2, 2010.
22. Walsh, “Mysterious ‘Chip.’”
23. Ibid.
24. Jane Perlez and Pir Zubair Shah, “Drones Batter Al Qaeda and Its Allies in Pakistan,” New York Times, April 4, 2010.
25. Munir Ahmad, The Battle for Pakistan: Militancy and Conflict in Balochistan, National Security Studies Program Policy Paper (Washington, DC: New America Foundation, September 2011).
26. Eric Schmitt and Jane Perlez, “Strikes Worsen Qaeda Threat Pakistan Says,” New York Times, February 24, 2009.
27. “Al Qaeda under Pressure: US Drones Have Al Qaeda on the Run,” CBS News, July 10, 2009, http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-5151547.html.
28. Mayer, “Predator War.”
29. Katherine Tiedemann, “Drone Attacks in Tribal Pakistan Force Al Qaeda into Urban Areas,” Times, August 8, 2009; Imtiaz Ali, “Karachi Becoming a Taliban Safe Haven?” Combating Terrorism Center Sentinel 3, no. 1 (January 2010): 17–20.
30. Associated Press, “Jihadist Shift Seen in Pakistan, Fewer Arabs,” Fox News, September 3, 2012, http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/09/03/jihadist-shift-seen-in-pakistan-fewer-arabs/.
31. Tom Gjelten, “U.S. Officials: Al-Qaida Leadership Cadre ‘Decimated,’” Morning Edition, National Public Radio, February 3, 2009, http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100160836.
32. Peter Taylor, “Drones ‘Winning’ War against Al Qaeda Says Ex-CIA Head,” BBC News, March 20, 2011, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-12784129.
33. Emerson, “In Defense of Drones.”
34. Ali Chishti, “Al Qaeda Shifting to Pakistan’s Urban Areas,” Daily Times, August 25, 2010.
35. David Ignatius, “What Would Reconciliation Look Like for the US and Taliban?” Washington Post, June 29, 2010.
36. Associated Press, “Al Qaeda Leader Admits Facing Pressure from Drones,” Fox News, January 27, 2011, http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/01/27/al-qaida-leader-admits-facing-pressure-drones.
37. Greg Miller, “US Predator Strikes Causing ‘Confusion’ in Al Qaeda Ranks,” Los Angeles Times, March 22, 2009.
38. Greg Miller, “Predator Strikes in Pakistan: U.S. Says Drones Ravage Al Qaeda,” Chicago Tribune, March 22, 2009.
39. “Taliban Dismisses US Claims about Death of Osama’s Son,” Hindu, July 4, 2009.
40. Carol Grisanti and Mushtaq Yusufzai, “Taliban Style Justice for Alleged US Spies,” World Blog, NBC News, April 17, 2009, http://worldblog.nbcnews.com/_news/2009/04/17/4376383-taliban-style-justice-for-alleged-us-spies.
41. Mark Macdonald, “Are Drone Strikes Worth the Cost?” New York Times, August 22, 2012.
42. Christopher Swift, “The Drone Blowback Fallacy: Strikes in Yemen Aren’t Pushing People to Al Qaeda,” Foreign Affairs, July 1, 2012.
43. Karen De Young and Julie Tate, “Increased Drone Strikes in Pakistan Killing Few High Ranking Militants,” Washington Post, February 20, 2011.
44. “Bin Laden Was Trying to Build Drone-Decimated Network,” Japan Times, July 3, 2011.
45. Greg Miller, “Bin Laden Document Trove Reveals Strain on Al Qaeda,” Washington Post, July 1, 2011.
46. Spencer Ackerman, “White House: Al Qaeda Is Toast (as Long as These Shadow Wars Last Forever),” Danger Room (blog), Wired, June 29, 2011, http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/06/white-house-al-qaida-is-toast/.
47. Mark Mazzetti, “Al Qaeda Affiliates Growing Independent,” New York Times, August 29, 2011.
48. “The Drone Wars,” Wall Street Journal, January 9, 2010.
49. “Predators and Civilians,” Wall Street Journal, July 14, 2009.
50. “The Ethics of Unmanned Warfare,” United Press International, December 8, 2010.
51. William Saletan, “In Defense of Drones: They’re the Worst Form of War, Except for All the Others,” Slate, February 19, 2013, http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/human_nature/2013/02/drones_war_and_civilian_casualties_how_unmanned_aircraft_reduce_collateral.html.
52. Greg Miller, “Under Obama a Huge Rise in Drone Strikes,” Washington Post, January 1, 2012.
53. Noah Shachtman, “How the Afghanistan Air War Got Stuck in the Sky,” Wired, December 8, 2009, http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/12/ff_end_air_war/.
54. Christine Fair, “The Obama Administration Won’t Tell the Truth about America’s New Favorite Weapon—But That Doesn’t Mean the Critics are Right,” Foreign Policy, May 28, 2010.
55. “Flight of the Drones.”
56. Scott Shane, “Yemen’s Leader Praises US Drone Strikes,” New York Times, September 19, 2012; Greg Miller, “In Interview Yemeni President Acknowledges Approving US Drone Strikes,” Washington Post, September 29, 2012.
57. Graeme Smith, “Pakistan’s Deadly Robots in the Sky,” Globe and Mail, October 10, 2010.
58. Sarmad Tariq, “Drone Strikes Kill Militants, Others Kill the Innocent,” Welcome to Pakistan (blog), Express Tribune, January 18, 2013, http://blogs.tribune.com.pk/story/15697/drone-strikes-kill-militants-others-kill-the-innocent/.
59. John Schmidt, The Unraveling: Pakistan in the Age of Jihad (New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2011), 155–56, 158, 175.
60. Taj, “Drone Attacks: Challenging Some Fabrications.”
61. Taj, “Drone Attacks: Pakistan’s Policy.”
62. “Mapping US Drone and Islamic Militant Attacks in Pakistan,” BBC News, July 22, 2010, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-10648909.
63. Taj, “Drone Attacks: Challenging Some Fabrications.”
64. Azizullah Khan Khetran, “In Favor of Drone Attacks,” Daily Times, November 6, 2010.
65. Charles Recknagel, “Drone Attacks Stoke Debate in Pakistan,” EurasiaNet.org, October 17, 2010, http://www.eurasianet.org/node/62172.
66. Taj, “Drone Attacks: Challenging Some Fabrications.”
67. Hasan Zaidi, “Army Chief Wanted More Drone Support,” Dawn, May 20, 2011.