Your UAV fix for today, and other things:

Drones Target Terror Plot
CIA Strikes Intensify in Pakistan Amid Heightened Threats in Europe [see also "shocker" below]

C.I.A. Steps Up Drone Attacks in Pakistan to Thwart Taliban

Pakistani government condemns NATO airstrikes

Petraeus Says Taliban Have Reached Out to Karzai

I wonder if the “shocker” related in this post might just have a connection to the first headline above:

Afstan: Just say “no” to NATO/CIA Great Gaming, Canadian terrorist “shocker” Update/US AfPak docs Upperdate

Update: More from Paul at Celestial Junk on the reaping:

Predators Gone Wild

Obama is getting one thing right as he allows the predator and air war to expand…

Grim?

…

STAFF SGT. BRIAN FERGUSON / AIR FORCE
An MQ-9 Reaper taxis down a runway in Afghanistan…

Earlier:

Drone porn?

And see the Update thought here.  Canadian UAVs in Afstan are, of course, not weaponized; imagine the shock, the horror, the uproar if one of our “drones” accidentally killed one civilian, eh?

Mark
Ottawa