“The key question going forward is how is this going to change how the CIA operates?” asks the Wall Street Journal’s Adam Entous. The strike was based on what’s called a ‘pattern of life’ intelligence, which indicated that there was a legitimate target present, without knowing specifically who. “Will that continue down the road,” asks Entous. “Or will that be curtailed?”
Warren Weinstein is a veteran aid worker who was kidnapped by armed men in Lahore almost four months ago. Ayman al-Zawahiri and the Pakistan branch of al-Qaeda have claimed responsibility for this, and created a list of demands for his release. Among them are the end of U.S. airstrikes in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen, as […]