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July 30, 2015 Abigail Fielding Smith

The private firms tracking terror targets at heart of US drone wars

The overstretched US military has hired hundreds of private sector contractors in the heart of its drone operations to analyse

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July 30, 2015 Abigail Fielding Smith

How private sector is cashing in on Pentagon’s ‘insatiable demand’ for drone war intelligence

Some months ago, an imagery analyst was sitting in his curtained cubicle at Hurlburt Field airbase in Florida watching footage

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July 2, 2015 Abigail Fielding Smith

Amid the fog of war, do we actually know who belongs to al Qaeda in Yemen now?

Distinguishing between militants in Yemen and those merely associated with them is getting harder as the country’s war drags on, correspondent Iona Craig told

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June 5, 2015 Abigail Fielding Smith

“Sudden Justice” author Chris Woods on CIA accountability and the politics of US drone wars

Transferring control of the US drone programme away from the CIA could paradoxically result in less accountability, author and investigative

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April 29, 2015 Abigail Fielding Smith

what do hostage deaths in Pakistan mean for US drone policy?

In this week’s Drone News, Owen Bennett-Jones, Jack Serle and Abigail Fielding-Smith discuss Barack Obama’s admission that a January CIA

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