After drones: the indelible mark of America's remote control warfare

When drone strikes are discussed by political leaders they're portrayed as being surgical , precise, warfare without casualty and those killed? They're militant's , terrorists or terrorist sympathizers.  The media plays along with this fiction.  Yet, many of those killed in these surgical strikes aren't militants or terrorists, but the innocent who just happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.  


The strikes last a moment, but the consequences last forever. Six families explain how Obama’s secret drone war has left them struggling for answers after loved ones were wiped out without warning

Nabila’s favorite memories of her grandmother come from weddings. It didn’t matter who was getting married – relative or neighbor – her grandmother, Mamana, was an active participant, owing to her matriarchal perch above their village.

Mamana was as responsible as she was festive. An uneducated woman, she was the local midwife, and served as an impromptu primary care physician, even a veterinarian, when the need arose.

On a fall afternoon in 2012, Mamana called Nabila and a squad of her siblings and cousins outside to the family’s okra fields, part of their sprawling garden in tribalPakistan. It was about to be the Eid festival and the Rehman family needed to gather and prep vegetables. Nabila, nine years old, had set to work when the drone fired its missiles.