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First Drone Strike after Obama's Policy Shift Roils Pakistan

An American drone strike has killed the deputy leader of Pakistan's Taliban, a group with close links to al Qaeda. It's the first such attack since President Obama called for a new drone policy and two weeks since Pakistan's presidential election.

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By Warren Olney • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

An American drone strike has killed the deputy leader of Pakistan's Taliban, a group with close links to al Qaeda. It's the first such attack since President Obama called for a new drone policy and two weeks since Pakistan's presidential election. Mark Mazzetti is national security correspondent for the New York Times and author of The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army and a War at the Ends of the Earth.

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