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Center for Research on Globalization
November 20, 2017
Brennan has also been in charge of many of Obama's most controversial and radical policies, including “signature strikes” in Yemen – targeting ...
Truthdig
November 6, 2017
In 2013, the Obama administration promulgated a set of requirements ... Signature strikes are often called “crowd killings” because those ...
Eurasia Review
November 3, 2017
In 2013, the Obama administration promulgated a set of requirements ... Signature strikes are often called “crowd killings” because those ...
HuffPost
November 1, 2017
In 2013, the Obama administration promulgated a set of requirements ... at named suspected terrorists — and “signature strikes” — in which all ...
NBCNews.com
March 14, 2017
The Obama administration put in place a rule that no drone strike could ... Many of those were so-called "signature strikes" against masses of ...
The Atlantic
December 23, 2016
President Obama presided over a drone strike for the first time shortly after ... but “signature” strikes that targeted training camps and suspicious ...
The Guardian
July 1, 2016
The most controversial tactic of Barack Obama's drone strikes has survived an ... when the Guardian asked about the future of signature strikes.
Foreign Policy (blog)
April 5, 2016
Signature strikes like the ones in Somalia and Yemen form a key element ... civilians in a single signature strike, leading the U.S. government to ...
U.S. News & World Report
June 18, 2015
The use of signature strikes returned to top headline space earlier this year, after Obama confirmed in April a U.S. aircraft had accidentally ...
PolitiFact
April 28, 2015
A signature strike is a type of drone strike, in which the United States ... of signature strikes goes against what President Barack Obama said he ...
Middle East Eye
September 19, 2017
... in a "signature strike” based on a pattern of suspicious behaviour as ... the kill list was first drawn up during the Obama presidency in 2010ÃÂ ...
The Jamestown Foundation
September 12, 2017
... embraced drone-based targeted assassinations and “signature strikes.” Obama's administration oversaw a marked increase in the number ofÃÂ ...
Common Dreams
August 29, 2017
The Obama administration's determinations that any male 14 years or ... "patterns of behavior" that trigger the "signature strike" executions ofÃÂ ...
Aljazeera.com
March 20, 2017
Barack Obama was much criticised for his dramatic escalation of drone strikes in non-battlefield settings such as Pakistan, Yemen, Libya, andÃÂ ...
NBCNews.com
March 14, 2017
The Obama administration put in place a rule that no drone strike could ... Many of those were so-called "signature strikes" against masses ofÃÂ ...
The Atlantic
December 23, 2016
President Obama presided over a drone strike for the first time shortly after ... but “signature” strikes that targeted training camps and suspiciousÃÂ ...
The Guardian
July 1, 2016
The most controversial tactic of Barack Obama's drone strikes has survived an ... when the Guardian asked about the future of signature strikes.
Foreign Policy (blog)
April 5, 2016
Signature strikes like the ones in Somalia and Yemen form a key element ... civilians in a single signature strike, leading the U.S. government toÃÂ ...
U.S. News & World Report
June 18, 2015
The use of signature strikes returned to top headline space earlier this year, after Obama confirmed in April a U.S. aircraft had accidentallyÃÂ ...
PolitiFact
April 28, 2015
A signature strike is a type of drone strike, in which the United States ... of signature strikes goes against what President Barack Obama said heÃÂ ...
Atlanta Black Star
March 8, 2017
This past summer, amidst the turmoil generated by the police killings of unarmed Black citizens Philando Castile and Alton Sterling, President Barack Obama participated in a televised ABC News town hall on racism and police brutality. The conversation ...
Asia Times
February 23, 2017
It's possible that targeted killings will be the only policy of president Barack Obama that the new resident of the White House will be eager to perpetuate.
Newsweek
February 11, 2017
It's possible that targeted killings will be the only policy of president Barack Obama that the new resident of the White House will be eager to perpetuate.
Truth-Out
January 28, 2017
However, President Barack Obama succeeded over two terms in office in normalizing the targeted killing of persons designated as state enemies on the basis of their patterns of behavior.
Center for Research on Globalization
January 25, 2017
It's not easy to tease out how much of the mess in the Middle East is specifically due to Obama's accelerated use of lethal drones in "signature strikes" to kill thousands of military-age men in seven different lands. For he also implemented other ...
Antiwar.com
January 24, 2017
It's not easy to tease out how much of the mess in the Middle East is specifically due to Obama's accelerated use of lethal drones in "signature strikes" to kill thousands of military-age men in seven different lands. For he also implemented other ...
The Denver Post
January 15, 2017
The pace of the campaign's strikes in Pakistan surged from several dozen in 2008 to 117 in Obama's second year. The acceleration was enabled by Obama's secret embrace of a controversial tactic known as "signature strikes," which meant the CIA could ...
The Atlantic
December 23, 2016
In Pakistan, Mr. Obama had approved not only "personality" strikes aimed at named, high-value terrorists, but "signature" strikes that targeted training camps and suspicious compounds in areas controlled by militants. But some State Department ...
Jacobin magazine
December 22, 2016
What does the national security apparatus and military infrastructure that Obama will be passing onto Trump look like, both generally and specifically in Africa?
Just Security
December 13, 2016
Jaffer focuses on the hallmarks of Obama's counterterrorism campaign - such as concerns about civilian casualties, the ambiguous criteria used for identifying combatants and, by extension, the use of signature strikes to target military-aged males. He ...
Shadowproof (blog)
December 12, 2016
The Obama administration employed what is known as signature strikes, which targeted individuals who engaged in patterns of behavior that made them suspect.
Just Security
October 3, 2016
this data also cannot be broken down in terms of time and therefore obscures important differences of performance (including improvement over time); and none of the official data provides figures on "signature strikes" (i.e., their frequency or whether ...
NBCNews.com
September 26, 2016
In 2010 and 2011, the Obama administration was conducting as many as two CIA drone strikes a week in Pakistan, including so-called signature strikes against groups of fighters whose names were not known. That campaign that appears to have decimatedÃÂ ...
La Repubblica
September 16, 2016
Per chiudere il caso del cooperante italiano ucciso nel 2015 in Pakistan nel corso di un raid americano con i droni il Dipartimento di Stato ha stipulato un atto di donazione alla mamma e al fratello della vittima. Un documento freddo e burocratico che ...
The Real News Network
September 7, 2016
America's Murderous Legacy in Laos JAISAL NOOR, TRNN: As Barack Obama, the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos, we replay a report that looks at the legacy of the US bombing in Laos.
The Real News Network
September 7, 2016
America's Murderous Legacy in Laos JAISAL NOOR, TRNN: As Barack Obama, the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos, we replay a report that looks at the legacy of the US bombing in Laos.
Huffington Post
August 16, 2016
In January 2013, President Barack Obama promised to make the rules for the United States' targeted killing program "more transparent to the American people and the world" because "in our democracy, no one should just take my word for it that we're ...
Just Security
August 15, 2016
But this part of the PPG may also provide policy for so-called signature strikes, which are strikes against individuals whose identities are not known but who, according to the US, nonetheless meet a set of (still classified) criteria making them ...
Jacobin magazine
August 13, 2016
But when it comes to the "war on terror," the Bush and Obama administrations haven't just played to the edge. They've ... In a separate op-ed last week, Obama-era CIA deputy director Mike Morell denounced Trump as lacking "respect for the rule of law ...
The Intercept
July 28, 2016
The U.S. government has reached an agreement with the family of an Italian aid worker killed in a CIA drone strike in Pakistan, over a year after President Barack Obama acknowledged the operation and promised an investigation and compensation.
Salon
July 23, 2016
Under Obama, with an actual White House "kill list," the use of drones has again expanded, this time nine-fold, with growing numbers of attacks in Pakistan, Yemen, Libya and Somalia, as well as in the Afghan, Iraqi and Syrian war zones.
LobeLog
July 22, 2016
Under Obama, with an actual White House "kill list," the use of drones has again expanded, this time nine-fold, with growing numbers of attacks in Pakistan, Yemen, Libya, and Somalia, as well as in the Afghan, Iraqi, and Syrian war zones.
CounterPunch
July 22, 2016
Are "signature strikes" by drones? Is Saudi Arabia's air campaign against Yemeni cities? Did the Ukrainian AZOV Brigade, a current White House favorite that sports Nazi insignia and is slated to receive training by the US Army, commit an act of ...
Center for Research on Globalization
July 19, 2016
Under Obama, with an actual White House "kill list," the use of drones has again expanded, this time nine-fold, with growing numbers of attacks in Pakistan, Yemen, Libya, and Somalia, as well as in the Afghan, Iraqi, and Syrian war zones.
Salon
July 23, 2016
Under Obama, with an actual White House "kill list," the use of drones has again expanded, this time nine-fold, with growing numbers of attacks in Pakistan, Yemen, Libya and Somalia, as well as in the Afghan, Iraqi and Syrian war zones.
LobeLog
July 22, 2016
Under Obama, with an actual White House "kill list," the use of drones has again expanded, this time nine-fold, with growing numbers of attacks in Pakistan, Yemen, Libya, and Somalia, as well as in the Afghan, Iraqi, and Syrian war zones.
CounterPunch
July 22, 2016
Are "signature strikes" by drones? Is Saudi Arabia's air campaign against Yemeni cities? Did the Ukrainian AZOV Brigade, a current White House favorite that sports Nazi insignia and is slated to receive training by the US Army, commit an act of ...
Center for Research on Globalization
July 19, 2016
Under Obama, with an actual White House "kill list," the use of drones has again expanded, this time nine-fold, with growing numbers of attacks in Pakistan, Yemen, Libya, and Somalia, as well as in the Afghan, Iraqi, and Syrian war zones.
The McGill International Review
July 18, 2016
According to international law and the international treaties agreed to by the United States, the use of armed drones strikes by Obama's administration and the CIA are illegal.1 The United States defends its drone policy against Pakistan as "non ...
The Nation.
July 18, 2016
Under Obama, with an actual White House "kill list," the use of drones has again expanded, this time ninefold, with growing numbers of attacks in Pakistan, Yemen, Libya, and Somalia, as well as in the Afghan, Iraqi, and Syrian war zones.
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