“Signature strikes, a key aspect for years of what the administration likes to call its “targeted killing” program, permit the #CIA and #JSOC to kill without requiring them to know who they kill”
“Terrorist behavior – in practice, a gathering of men, teenaged to middle-aged, traveling in convoys or carrying weapons. In 2012, an unnamed senior official memorably quipped that the CIA considers “three guys doing jumping jacks” a signature of terrorist training”
▻http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/25/us-drone-program-secrecy-scrutiny-signature-strikes
#Obama #USA #signature_strikes #targeted_killing #drones #afpak #Afghanistan #Pakistan #Yemen #GWOT