When Jake Tapper, CNN White House correspondent, worked for ABC, he told NPR’s Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me audience that when Hillary Clinton first became Secretary of State, he saw her one day and greeted her as Senator Clinton, but quickly amended it to Secretary Clinton. He then asked her which title she liked better, and she said, “I like either of them better than what we call you behind your back.”After ten years of drone strikes, the Taliban are more brutal than before. What was once called the war on terror is backfiring in Pakistan; the drone is despised.
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Pakistan's last parliament voted to block drone strikes, making them illegal under international law, but has been powerless to stop them.
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"This might be an effective tool to win a battle but this is certainly a counterproductive tool - an illegal, and unlawful, and also counterproductive tool - to win the war," said former Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar.
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The drones operate out of U.S. bases in neighboring Afghanistan, and according to the White House, target al Qaeda and Taliban hiding in Pakistan's tribal border region - not civilians.
Karim Khan, who is from that tribal region, tells CNN his brother and son were killed in a drone strike in late 2009.
"They were both government employees, they were not involving in any terrorists acts," said Khan.
He is suing the CIA, but given the chance, says he would take revenge on those responsible.
"I will kill them if Allah give me this opportunity, I will kill them. Because they are responsible for killing my brother and my son," said Khan. "I will kill them because they are criminal."
Lawyer Shezad Akbar represents a hundred families like Khan's.
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"Drones are creating not just one generation but generations of jihadists, because if you kill a father, his son will come and then if you kill his son, his grandson will come, and this is what is happening," said Akbar.
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