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Allouni said that while fleeing
: Gene Mater, “BBC's Kabul News Bureau Damaged by Bomb During Live Broadcast,”
freedomforum.org
, posted November 14, 2001, at
http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=15355
.

the
New York Times
revealed
: Judith Miller and Eric Schmitt, “Ugly Duckling Turns Out to Be Formidable in the Air,”
New York Times
, November 23, 2001.

drew a large
X
through
: Woodward,
Bush at War
, p. 316.

armed Predators would be designated
: Dr. James M. George, “Predator Comes to Air Combat Command (1994–2005),” Office of ACC History, Headquarters, Air Combat Command, Langley Air Force Base, Virginia, August 2006, pp. 80–81.

issued a report declaring
: Christopher J. Castelli, “Predator UAV Given Poor Review by Pentagon Testers,”
InsideDefense.com
, October 30, 2001. The tests were conducted by the Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center and Air Combat Command with unarmed versions of the Predator, judging them against standards set in an official Operational Requirements Document. The testers said the Predator was “unable to provide reliable, effective communications through the aircraft, as required, or meet the target location accuracy requirement under operational conditions.”

EPILOGUE

“What do you mean”
: Nate Self,
Two Wars: One Hero's Fight on Two Fronts—Abroad and Within
(Carol Stream, Ill.: Tyndale House Publishers, 2008), p. 194.

Self had picked up
: Ibid.

The first missile launched
: Self thought that the first Hellfire shot was simply a miss. Predator pilot Big said years later that he and Will were asked by Brown to fire a demonstration shot, as Sean Naylor reported in
Not a Good Day to Die: The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda
(New York: Penguin, 2005). Boyle said the Predator crew put the missile where Self asked but that Self was mistaken about where the Al Qaeda fighters were. Other written accounts also disagree on why the first Hellfire shot was wasted.

“Rocks, dirt and branches flew”
: Naylor,
Not a Good Day to Die
, p. 357.

An April 2001 Defense Department study
: “Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Roadmap, 2000–2025,” Office of the Secretary of Defense.

more than two million flight hours
: “RPAs Reach 2 Million Hours,” Air Force News Service, October 23, 2013.

changed the character of America's spy agency
: The effect of the Predator and the war with Al Qaeda and its allies on the CIA after 9/11 is closely examined in Mazzetti,
The Way of the Knife
.

Killed, along with five others
: Al-Harethi's death is still often described, incorrectly, as the first drone strike.

estimated that the CIA conducted
: “Drone Wars, Pakistan: Analysis,” New America Foundation,
http://natsec.newamerica.net/drones/pakistan/analysis
.

agreed to many if not all
: Mazzetti,
The Way of the Knife,
pp. 86–87 and 108–9.

said to have aided and abetted
: Peter Finn, “Awlaki Directed Christmas ‘Underwear Bomber' Plot, Justice Department Memo Says,”
Washington Post
, February 10, 2012.

Critics questioned
: Charlie Savage, “Relatives Sue Officials over U.S. Citizens Killed by Drone Strikes in Yemen,”
New York Times
, July 19, 2012.

Obama finally addressed the issue
: The White House, Office of the Press Secretary, May 23, 2013, news release, “Remarks by the President at the National Defense University.”

“Presidential Policy Guidance”
: The White House, Office of the Press Secretary, May 23, 2013, “Fact Sheet: U.S. Policy Standards and Procedures for the Use of Force in Counterterrorism Operations Outside the United States and Areas of Active Hostilities.”

Guay told his younger brother
: Author interview with Scott Guay, March 31, 2014.

 

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INDEX

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A-10 Warthog

A160 Hummingbird helicopter

AC-130H Spectre gunship

AC-130U Spooky gunship

Advanced Concept Technology Demonstrations (ACTD)

Aero Club of Israel

Aeronautic Systems Center

Aeronca Chief

Aerospace America

Aerospace Daily

Aerotrain

“Afghan Eyes” (Clarke memo).
See also
Summer Project

Afghanistan

9/11 attacks and

Atef hunt and

Bush, George W., and

first Predator lethal strike in

Mullah Omar hunt and

Soviet war in

Summer Project and

U.S. war in

African embassy terrorist bombings (Kenya and Tanzania)

Agnew, Harold

Air Armament Summit 2000

Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS)

Air Combat Command (ACC)

Air Combat Command Expeditionary Air Intelligence Squadron

Air Force.
See also specific agencies and units

9/11 and

Afghanistan and

Albatross and

Big Bird and

Big Safari and

Blues and

Bosnia and

drones and

Forty-Four balls and

Gulf War and

MTS ball and

New Start Notification and

Predator and

Predator strikes and

Smithsonian exhibit and

Summer Project and

terrorist threats and

Air Force Association

Air Force intelligence

Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations Center

Air Force Office of Special Investigations

Air Force Operations Center

Air Force Special Operations Command

Air Force Special Tactics

Air National Guard

Air/Space America 88

Air Tasking Order

Albania

Albatross

Albright, Madeleine

Alec B. (CTC deputy director)

Al Jaber Air Base (Kuwait)