Now the Taliban seem to have come up with a new strategy: using the drones’ human intelligence networks to infiltrate the program and kill the people who run it. Last week, a suicide bomber blew up seven CIA officers at a U.S. military base in Afghanistan near the Pakistan border. It looked like just another insurgent attack. But it was more than that. In separate interviews, representatives of two Taliban factions have claimed that the mission’s target was the drone program. “We attacked this base because the team there was organizing drone strikes,” a commander allied with the Afghan Taliban told the Wall Street Journal .
Score one for the bad guys. The next move is ours.
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