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“It is arguable whether drone attacks, launched by drone pilots against people who have no idea what's coming, are even war at all but something more grotesque; dehumanisation of those targeted because there is no real, human contact between the attacker and victim. Israel and the US instead celebrate these killings by releasing drone footage to the media.”

War Israel Usa Drone Attacks

Book:The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World

Source: The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World

“We bomb homes, and these people have families -- and the U.S. refuses to apologize for these civilian deaths. The absence of concern makes their actions almost equal to a deliberate targeting of civilians.”

Foreign Policy Bombing Civilian Casualties Targeting Drone Attacks Surgical Strikes

Author:William Blum

“A more fundamental questions suggests itself, however. How did the most powerful military in history come to devote its elite forces and advanced technology to the hunt for a man like Qari Munib, a midlevel Taliban figure in a remote corner of the planet, half a world away from the White House and ground zero in Manhattan, more than eleven years after the September 11 attacks?”

Terrorism Taliban 9 11 Drone Attacks Qari Munib The Assassination Complex

Author:ryan devereaux

“What line separates the lawful wartime targeting of an enemy combatant from the extrajudicial murder of a man suspected, but not convicted, of wrongdoing? (p8)”

War Drone Attacks Rules Of War

Book:How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon

Source: How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon

“Based on his experience, he has come to believe that the drone program amounts to little more than death by unreliable metadata. "People get hung up that there's a targeted list of people," he said. "It's really like we're targeting a cell phone. We're not going after people – we're going after their phones, in the hopes that the person on the other end of that missile is the bad guy.”

Terrorism Drones Metadata Drone Attacks Missile

Book:The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government's Secret Drone Warfare Program

Source: The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government's Secret Drone Warfare Program