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Officials: US drones kill 6 militants in Pakistan (AP)

September 20th, 2010

A Pakistani woman who survived floods cooks at a temporary shelters set up for displaced people in Makile, Sindh Province southern Pakistan, Monday, Sept. 20, 2010. Monsoon rains triggered massive floods six weeks ago that spread across the country and are still continuing in parts of the south. Some 8 million people have been made homeless in what Pakistani and U.N. officials have said is one of the largest humanitarian disasters in living memory. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)AP - Suspected U.S. drones fired missiles at militant targets in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, killing six people in the 15th such attack this month, the most intense barrage since…

Officials: US drones kill 6 in northwest Pakistan (AP)

August 21st, 2010

A Pakistani woman weeps as she stands with others crowding around a Pakistan Army helicopter after it arrived to deliver food aid for the United Nations World Food Program in  the flood encircled village of Tul in , Sindh Province, southern Pakistan, Friday, Aug. 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)AP - Suspected U.S. missiles fired from an unmanned drone killed six militants Saturday in a Pakistani tribal region near the Afghan border, officials said.


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Aircraft maker pushing exports of spy drones (AP)

April 2nd, 2010

AP - The U.S.-made RQ-4 Global Hawk spy plane looks like an upside-down double-decker bus with wings, flies slowly, offers zero leg room — and is one of the most…

Officials: 2 US missile attacks kill 9 in Pakistan (AP)

March 17th, 2010

File photo shows a US Air Force Predator drone. Missiles fired by unmanned US drone aircraft on Tuesday killed at least six militants in Pakistan's restive tribal belt bordering Afghanistan, Pakistani security officials said.(AFP/HO/US AIR FORCE/File)AP - Suspected U.S. drones fired missiles at vehicles and hit a militant hide-out in a tribal region of northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing at least nine insurgents, two officials…