Drone strikes
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Film Review: Drone
A film review of Drone by Major Agha Humayun Amin, who draws on his research since 2006. He faults the film for showing Karachi’s skyscrapers as Waziristan and Karachi accents…
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Pearls of Nonsense About Drones
Major Agha Humayun Amin reviews Christopher Fuller’s See It/Shoot It, a history of the CIA’s drone programme, as disappointing, arguing it adds nothing, rests on a questionable source, and wrongly…
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Podcasts by Major Amin. India, Pakistan, Proxy Wars
Introduces Major Agha Humayun Amin’s podcasts, one covering his background in Afghanistan and his views that no actor there is truly non-state, that the Taliban are Pakistan’s proxy, and that…
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Akhtat Mansour, Islamic Wife-beating and Muslims for Trump 5-29-2016
The author uses the drone strike that killed Taliban leader Mullah Mansoor to question Pakistan’s double role as a US ally and Taliban backer, then adds further ‘random thoughts’ on…
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“Amriki jasoosi (American spy)” must die
A comment, with a long news extract, on North Waziristan civilians caught between US drones and Taliban militants, quoting a man whose friend was dragged away on suspicion of spying.
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Globo-cops: omni-(p, s, p)
A long extract on the growth of US Special Operations Command into a global covert fighting force, introduced with the poster’s remark that it is somewhat sensationalised but largely believable.
