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November 29, 2012

The Cynical War Against Drones

Michael Burleigh, Standpoint

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The media will continue to be saturated with coverage of what is clearly a co-ordinated campaign (connected with Imran Khan's political ambitions) to discredit the most effective tactic the West (and others) has to combat terrorists operating in the vast ungoverned areas of failed or failing states: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen and, now, Mali and Mauritania.

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