Back to NewslettersPredator Type MQ1 Drones 3D artwork© boscorelli / shutterstock.com“I no longer love blue skies. In fact, I now prefer gray skies. The drones do not fly when the skies are gray.”That’s what a young Pakistani boy named Zubair told members of Congress at a hearing on drones in October 2013. The hearing was during the Obama years at a time when the government had barely even acknowledged that an American drone warfare program existed.Two years earlier, Anwar al-Awlaki, a Muslim cleric, and Abdulrahman, his 16-year-old son — both American citizens — were killed by U.S. drone...…Back to NewslettersPredator Type MQ1 Drones 3D artwork© boscorelli / shutterstock.com“I no longer love blue skies. In fact, I now prefer gray skies. The drones do not fly when the skies are gray.”That’s what a young Pakistani boy named Zubair told members of Congress at a hearing on drones in October 2013. The hearing was during the Obama years at a time when the government had barely even acknowledged that an American drone warfare program existed.Two years earlier, Anwar al-Awlaki, a Muslim cleric, and Abdulrahman, his 16-year-old son — both American citizens — were killed by U.S. drone...WW…

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