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An ongoing U.S. kill list The Obama administration has been secretly developing a new blueprint for pursuing terrorists, reflecting the reality that the United States expects to continue adding names to kill-or-capture lists for years.
Sept. 15, 2004
A crew chief from the 46th Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron completes a post-flight inspection of the RQ-1 Predator after one of its sorties at Balad Air Base in Iraq. The RQ-1 is a medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicle.
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June 16, 2011
Pakistani tribesmen carry the coffin of a person allegedly killed in a U.S. drone attack. They said innocent civilians were killed in the June 15, 2011, strike in the North Waziristan village of Tapi, near Miran Shah. U.S. missiles killed eight militants in separate strikes that day in the lawless tribal region, an insurgent stronghold along the Afghan border, security officials said. About 300 tribesmen gathered at the demonstration.
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Aug. 4, 2009
Pakistani villagers look at a house belonging to supporters of Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud that was destroyed by authorities in Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan.
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Aug. 8, 2007
An MQ-9 Reaper takes off on a training mission at Creech Air Force Base in Indian Springs, Nev. The Reaper is the Air Force's first "hunter-killer" unmanned aerial vehicle and is designed to engage time-sensitive targets on the battlefield as well as provide intelligence and surveillance. The jet-fighter-size Reapers are 36 feet long with 66-foot wingspans and can fly for as long as 14 hours fully loaded with laser-guided bombs and air-to-ground missiles.
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Oct. 28, 2008
A man holds a portrait of Qari Afsar Ali, who was killed in a drone attack in South Waziristan, Pakistan, during his funeral in Bannu, a town in what was then known as North-West Frontier Province. The Taliban member was killed with 20 other people in a missile attack carried out by a suspected U.S. drone targeting the house of local Taliban commander Mohammad Omar on Oct. 26, 2008, in the Shakai area of South Waziristan.
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Feb. 15, 2009
Pakistani tribesmen offer funeral prayers for the victims of a missile strike in the town of Miran Shah. A suspected U.S. missile attack destroyed a major Taliban training camp in Pakistan on Feb. 14, 2009, killing at least 27 mainly al-Qaeda foreign operatives, security officials said. Two missiles fired by a drone struck the camp of top Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud in the tribal area of Ladha near the Afghan border, they said, adding that Mehsud was not in the camp at the time of the strike.
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June 13, 2010
A U.S. Predator drone armed with a missile stands on the tarmac of a military airport in Kandahar. The al-Qaeda network in Afghanistan and Pakistan has been weakened significantly by U.S. drone strikes on its hideouts, by the killing of founder Osama bin Laden in May 2011 and by finances drying up.
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April 20, 2009
Pakistani senators and civil rights activists gather in front of Parliament in Islamabad to protest U.S. drone attacks in the semiautonomous Waziristan belt. Pakistani helicopter gunships raided suspected militant hideouts near the Afghan border, killing 20 insurgents and destroying their positions, a military official said.
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June 5, 2011
Activists from Jamaat-e-Islami torch an effigy of President Obama on the second day of a rally in Karachi, Pakistan, against U.S. drone attacks in the country. As Obama nears the end of his term, officials said the kill list in Pakistan has slipped to fewer than 10 al-Qaeda targets, down from as many as two dozen. The agency now aims many of its Predator strikes at the Haqqani network, which has been blamed for attacks on U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
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June 4, 2011
An activist from Jamaat-e-Islami waves a party flag during a protest in Karachi, Pakistan, against U.S. drone attacks in the country.
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Sept. 4, 2012
A view of a house that security officials said was destroyed by a U.S. drone in Yemen's eastern province of Hadramaut. In Yemen, the number of militants on the U.S. kill list has ranged from 10 to 15, officials said, and is not likely to slip into single digits anytime soon, despite 36 U.S. airstrikes this year.
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This undated image taken from a video posted on a militant-leaning Web site and provided by the SITE Intelligence Group shows Abu Yahya al-Libi, whose death was confirmed by al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri in a video posted Sept. 10, 2011. Libi, who was killed in a U.S. drone strike in northwestern Pakistan in June, was considered a media-savvy and charismatic leader with religious credentials who rose to prominence in the group after escaping from the U.S. military prison at Bagram air base in Afghanistan in 2005.
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2008
Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S.-born Muslim cleric of Yemeni descent, was killed Sept. 30, 2011, by a U.S. drone strike in Yemen.
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This undated file photo released by Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry on Oct. 31, 2010, purports to show Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri. The Saudi militant, thought to have been killed in a U.S. drone strike in Yemen, constructed the bombs for al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula's most notorious attempted attacks -- including the underwear-borne explosives intended to a down a U.S. aircraft and a bomb carried by his brother intended to assassinate a Saudi prince.
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2008
In this 2008 image taken from video provided by WBTV in Charlotte, Samir Khan is shown in North Carolina. Khan, a U.S. citizen of Pakistani heritage who produced "Inspire," an English-language al-Qaeda Web magazine that spread the word on ways to carry out attacks inside the United States, was killed by U.S. airstrikes in Yemen, along with Anwar al-Awlaki, an American militant cleric, on Sept. 30, 2011.
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This undated file image taken from video provided by IntelCenter shows Abu Yahya al-Libi, al-Qaeda’s former second-in-command.
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Jan. 27, 2012
Supporters of Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan, head of Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaaf (PTI — Movement for Justice), hold placards as they shout anti-U.S. slogans during a protest in Islamabad against U.S. drone attacks in the Pakistani tribal region.
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Aug. 3, 2012
A small U.S.-made drone that the Ugandan military uses in Somalia to fight al-Qaeda-linked militants flies above the flag of the Uganda People's Defense Force during a demonstration and briefing attended by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at Kasenyi Military Base in Kampala.
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