GEOG 345 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Baitullah Mehsud, Datta Khel, Chromite
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Dirty dancing: drones and death in the borderlands. Baitullah mehsud (5th august 2009) --> tracked and killed by a drone (due to the fact that he is a leader of the pakistan taliban - this is different from the. Mamana bibi (24th october 2012) --> tracked and killed in front of her grandchildren, completely innocent. Drones were initially developed to provide intelligence and surveillance (considered the "eyes in the sky") that was able to transmit increasingly high quality image (improved over the years) Sylvan magnolia: a cia program that made use of the predator crew to carry out targeted killing. The first targeted killing was carried out in yemen (originally directed at "high value targets") Drones were used on afghanistan and then extended to pakistan (or really anyone who had any links to al qaeda and the taliban, e. g. drug traffickers) This program targeted people that were affliated (or even barely associated) with terrorist groups.