A US Predator near Kandahar, January 2009. (AFP)On Drone Strikes -- Abu Muqawama
Tom Ricks is the one who usually gets the interns at CNAS to do the spade work on his blog, but I was talking with intern Matt Irvine about an event he attended on drone strikes recently and, struck by some of the things Bruce Riedel in particular said (like the fact that he was sceptical of any and all figures produced by the U.S. government on the strikes), I asked Matt to write up a synopsis for the blog (since it also nicely dovetails with another good debate we had this week).
Is there a better place to discuss human intelligence, covert action and targeted assassination than the International Spy Museum? Probably not.
So it was fitting for the museum to host a discussion of the CIA’s Predator drone program in Pakistan on Wednesday. The panel of Tom Parker, Peter Bergen and Bruce Riedel, offered some of the best commentary and analysis of the Predator program to date.
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My Comment: Abu Muqawama has commented on numerous occasions that he is through with his blog .... but he (fortunately) always come back with a good post. No exception with this one.
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