Drone News
Summary: News and analysis from the drones team at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ): Abigail Fielding-Smith, Owen Bennett-Jones and Jack Serle.
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Podcasts:
Peter Singer tells the Bureau's Abigail Fielding-Smith about his new book, Ghost Fleet, "a smash-up of two genres - the techno thriller and the nonfiction book".
Yemen: Iona Craig tells the Bureau distinguishing between militants in the country and those merely associated with them is getting harder as the war drags on.
38 Westerners have been killed by US drones since 2002 – most from some of America's closest allies. Investigative journalist and author Chris Woods tells Drone News this raises serious questions for those governments about how much they knew and how much they helped with the assassination of their citizens.
Sudden Justice author Chris Woods tells Drone News that transferring control of the US drone programme away from the CIA may not improve accountability.
UK drones in Iraq: Drone Wars UK's Chris Cole talks to Owen Bennett-Jones after six-months of RAF drone strikes in Iraq.
US drones killed an American and Italian in January 2015. Owen Bennett-Jones, Jack Serle and Abigail Fielding-Smith discuss Barack Obama’s unprecedented admission that a the CIA killed US aid worker Warren Weinstein and Italian aid worker Giovani Lo Porto in a domestic building in Pakistan.
The US government's tactic of releasing details about its targeted killing programme in only a piecemeal way is "very dangerous", the American Civil Liberties Union warns in this week's Drone News.
California dreaming of new drone uses – even to paint graffiti. Military, government and private sector funding is flowing into drone innovation hubs in California, Owen Bennett-Jones found in the Bureau's latest podcast from Los Angeles – with one artist even wanting a drone to paint graffiti on buildings.
Does must-watch rap video by depressed drone pilots underline recruitment worry for US military? The Bureau's Drone News investigates.
Dr Ayesha Siddiqa, a renowned expert on the Pakistan military, tells the Bureau that the Pakistan Army is increasingly cooperating with the US on drone strikes. This episode also features Dr Humeria Iqtidar, a politics lecture at King’s College London, who tells the Bureau the Pakistan military is not as much of a cohesive, monolithic entity as is generally thought.
US drone strikes are raising al Shabaab's profile and inflating its importance, BBC World Service Africa editor Mary Harper told the Bureau's Drone News podcast.
Adam Baron, Yemen expert at the European Council on Foreign Relations and journalist for publications including McClatchy and Foreign Policy, photographed outside in a white shirt.
David Davis MP issues a stark warning about Britain’s possible role in the US’s secret drone war against militants in Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen.
The CIA torture report and the latest drone news.
Brandon Bryant, former US drone operator, and Tonje Hessen Schei, director of documentary Drone, talk to Abigail Fielding-Smith.
