26.09.2012 - 01:18 [ Gawker ]

What It’s Like to Be Hit By a Drone Strike

On January 23, 2009, shortly after President Obama took office, the U.S. military blew up two houses in Waziristan with missiles fired by drones. These were the first of nearly 300 drone strikes in Pakistan the Obama administration has carried out. Here is what it was like from the other side