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US tries to rationalize drones strikes on citizens

Two of the Predator drones pointed lasers on the trucks to pinpoint the targets, while the larger Reapers took aim and fired. And for the first time since the Civil War, the United States government had carried out the deliberate killing of an American citizen as a wartime enemy and without a trial. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/world/middleeast/anwar-al-awlaki-a-us-citizen-in-americas-cross-hairs.html?hp&_r=0  Then […]