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How Twitter mapped a ‘covert’ US drone operation in Yemen

May 18th, 2012 by | 1 Comment
Published in All Stories, Covert War on Terror, PROJECTS

Local paper Mukallastar.com reports on a drone-destroyed car

Social media tracks drone attacks in eastern Yemen.


Suspected drone strikes kill 12 civilians in Yemen

May 15th, 2012 by
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MQ-9 Reaper - AN HONOURABLE GERMAN/Flickr

Biggest loss of civilian life in reported drone strike this year.


Analysis: Why we must name all drone attack victims

May 10th, 2012 by | 2 Comments
Published in All Stories, Covert War on Terror, Views from the Bureau

Pakistani villagers at funeral of drone victim - December 29 2010- AP

Bureau research names 170 militants killed in Pakistan – yet also 317 named civilians.


Yemen: reported US covert action 2012

May 8th, 2012 by
Published in All Stories, Covert War on Terror, Covert War on Terror - the Data, Drones data carousel

Reaper unmanned drone (Photo US Dept of Defense/ Flickr)

US covert strikes in Yemen continue to escalate through 2012 – see the data here.


The Guardian reviews Bureau’s work on drones

May 2nd, 2012 by
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Senior reporter Chris Woods speaks to the Guardian from Washington drone conference.


Drones investigation increasingly a key resource

May 2nd, 2012 by
Published in Bureau in the press

Predator Drone - Flickr/Doctress Neutopia

Bureau’s work on US’s covert war increasingly picked up by US media.


Analysis: April’s short-lived peace in Pakistan

May 1st, 2012 by
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April 2012 begins our monthly round-up of key events in the covert war on terror.


Arab spring brings steep rise in US attacks in Yemen

March 29th, 2012 by | 4 Comments
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Supporters of al-Qaeda tote their rifles

Attacks now rain on Yemen as often as they do on Pakistan’s tribal regions.


Yemen: reported US covert actions 2001-2011

March 29th, 2012 by
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A cruise missile launches from the USS Mississippi (DoD/ Flickr)

A searchable data set of all known US attacks in Yemen.


The civilian massacre the US neither confirms nor denies

March 29th, 2012 by | 4 Comments
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drone yemen composite

Whole families died in missile attack that killed 44 civilians.


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