Predators: The CIA's Drone War on al Qaeda

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Copyright

© 2013 by Brian Glyn Williams

All rights reserved

Potomac Books is an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press

Maps courtesy of Canguo Liu.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Williams, Brian Glyn.

Predators : the CIA’s drone war on al Qaeda / Brian Glyn Williams. — First Edition.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-61234-617-5 (hardcover : alk. paper)

ISBN 978-1-61234-618-2 (electronic)

1. Qaida (Organization) 2. Terrorism—Religious aspects. 3. Drone aircraft—United States. 4. War—Moral and ethical aspects—United States. I. Title.

HV6431.W5655 2013

327.127305491’1—dc23

2013006662

Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper that meets the American National Standards Institute Z39-48 Standard.

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