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As of late 2002 the Air Force had about 50 Predators in service, with only a few equipped to launch the HELLFIRE missile. The CIA had a small number of the armed drones. Newer versions of the Predator, at $4.5 million each, were being produced at a rate of about two aircraft a month.
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www.globalsecurity.org/intell/systems/predator.htm
www.globalsecurity.org/intell/systems/predator.htm
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CIA Predator Drones Based in Pakistan? ... Privately, though, Pakistani officials doubt that claim, especially after the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Diane Feinstein, D-Calif., suggested 10 days ago that the CIA Predator drones do indeed use Pakistani airfields and not necessarily Afghan airfields,
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abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=6938365&page=1
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CIA Predator Drones Based in Pakistan? ... Drones are also landing and taking off from the Shahbaz air field, located in Jacobabad, about 300 miles north of Karachi, the intelligence official said. It too was used by American forces after 9/11. ... Obama to CIA: Bombs Away! No Let Up in US Drone Attacks...
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abcnews.go.com/International/Story?id=6938365&page=2
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The CIA's use of Predator drones to kill suspected terrorists in Pakistan, which has significantly increased under the Obama administration, is recognized for its success in taking out intended targets. ... drone US military CIA Predator drones could aid Taliban, reporter says...
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rawstory.com/2009/10/mayer-drone-attacks-on-pakistan/
rawstory.com/2009/10/mayer-drone-attacks-on-pakistan/
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CIA director Leon Panetta told an audience last May that the drones were “the only game in town in terms of confronting or trying to disrupt the Al Qaeda leadership.” But the New America study contends that the terror group’s chieftains make up just a tiny percentage of the unmanned aircraft’s victims.
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www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/10/up-to-320-civilians-ki...
www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/10/up-to-320-civilians-killed-in-pakistan-drone-war-report/
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” She said of the Predator program, “These are targeted international killings by the state.” The program, as it happens, also uses private contractors for a variety of tasks, including flying the drones. Employees of Xe Services maintain and load the Hellfire missiles on the aircraft.
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www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/10/26/091026fa_fact_ma...
www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/10/26/091026fa_fact_mayer
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A senior U.S. lawmaker said Thursday that unmanned CIA Predator aircraft operating in Pakistan are flown from an airbase inside that country, a revelation likely to embarrass the Pakistani government and complicate its counterterrorism collaboration with the United States.
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archives.chicagotribune.com/2009/feb/12/nation/chi-0902...
archives.chicagotribune.com/2009/feb/12/nation/chi-090213-pakistan-us
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America's intelligence agency used an armed drone to kill six suspected al-Qaeda members in Yemen, the latest use of unmanned aircraft in a combat role. ... The BBC's Defence Correspondent, Jonathan Marcus, says that the CIA has been using Predator drones armed with anti-tank missiles in Afghanistan.
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news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/2404425.stm
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The CIA is secretly using an airbase in southern Pakistan to launch the Predator drones that observe and attack al-Qaeda and Taleban militants on the Pakistani side of the border with Afghanistan, a Times investigation has found. ... He said that he could not comment on CIA operations.
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www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article575549...
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article5755490.ece
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