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| India-Pakistan |
| The Drone Spotters of Pakistan |
| 2014-11-16 |
| [THEDAILYBEAST] Half a dozen men sit on the floor in a grimy rented storefront in the crowded Khyber Bazaar. A bottle of locally brewed liquor chills in a water cooler in the corner, a Pepsi bottle next to it for mixing. A Bollywood soundtrack plays in the background. It's a farewell party for Allah Noor, who has spent the last five years identifying targets in rural Pakistain for U.S. drone strikes. Noor, as we'll call him, is tall and wiry. Now in his early thirties, his cheeks are sunken from smoking too much hash. He hasn't slept in the same place two nights in a row ever since a U.S. drone killed Maulvi Nazir, his former boss, on Jan. 2, 2013. 'After that,' he says, 'I realized the government is playing a double game.' 'Sometimes I hide in Bloody Karachi |
| Posted by:Fred |