ACLU Seeks Accounting for Targeted Drone Killings

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i'm still wondering about where they get the info on when and who to target with their UAV's .

Some of the intelligence is probably coming from the Pakistani government,
who seems to be playing a double-game politically regarding
UAV attacks on the federally-administered tribal areas (FATA) in northwest Pakistan.
Pakistan's central government has never been able to police the area effectively.


FATA

Pakistan has repeatedly denounced the US predator drone attacks on its soil and has claimed
the strikes have caused hundreds of civilian lives and triggered anti-American sentiment.

But reports in The Times of London and The Wall Street Journal suggest that Pakistan has been
secretly cooperating in covert US operations by allowing the CIA to launch strikes from the
remote Shamsi airfield, 50km from the Afghanistan border.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/pak...1118893683

In February 2009, The Times (London) announced that it had obtained Google Earth images from
2006 which showed Predator aircraft parked outside a hangar at the end of the runway at Shamsi.


Satellite image of Shamsi puports to show
three Predator aircraft on a parking ramp.

The New York Times cited a senior Pakistani military official as saying
that in 2009 the drone operations were moved across the border to
Afghanistan. However, there's no reason to assume other forms of
cooperation have been discontinued.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamsi_airfield