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• Kenneth Anderson, Targeted Killing in U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy and Law (May 11, 2009), available at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1415070. Last visited Sept. 23, 2010.

• Kenneth Anderson, Drones II – Kenneth Anderson Testimony Submitted to U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs, Second Hearing on Drone Warfare, April 28, 2010, available at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1619819. Last visited Sept. 23, 2010.

• Anderson, Kenneth, Predators Over Pakistan. The Weekly Standard, Vol. 15, No. 24, pp. 26-34, March 8, 2010; American University, WCL Research Paper No. 2010-06. Available at SSRN.

• Charli Carpenter, Collateral Damage Control, NY Times, August 11, 2010, _available a_t: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/12/opinion/12iht-edcarpenter.html?_r=2. Last visited Sept. 23, 2010.

• CIA ‘killed al-Qaeda suspects’ in Yemen, BBC, November 5, 2002, available at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2402479.stm. Last visited Sept. 23, 2010.

• Amichai Cohen, The Principle of Proportionality in the Context of Operation Cast Lead: Institutional Perspectives, 35 Rutgers L. Rec. 23 Spring, 2009.

• Amichai Cohen and Yuval Shany, A Development of Modest Proportions: The Application of the Principle of Proportionality in the Targeted Killings Case, 5 J Int Criminal Justice 310 (2007).

• CQ Researcher. Aug. 6, 2010, availableat http://www.cqresearcher.com. Volume 20, Number 28. PP 653-676. Special Issue: “Drone Warfare: Are Strikes by unmanned aircraft ethical?”

• John DeGaspari, Look Ma, No Pilot!, Mechanical Engineering, November 1, 2003, found at http://www.memagazine.org/backissues/membersonly/nov03/features/lookma/lookma.html. Last visited Sept. 23, 2010.

• Christopher Drew, Drones Are Playing a Growing Role in Afghanistan, NY Times, February 20, 2010, available at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/20/world/asia/20drones.html. Last visited Sept. 23, 2010.

• William J Fenrick, The Rule of Proportionality and Protocol in Conventional Warfare, 98 Mil. L. Rev. 91 (Fall 1982).

• W.J. Fenrick,Targeting and Proportionality during the NATO Bombing Campaign against Yugoslavia, 12 Eur. J. Int. Law 489 (2001).

• Final Report to the Prosecutor by the Committee Established to Review the NATO Bombing Campaign Against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, found at http://www.icty.org/x/file/About/OTP/otp_report_nato_bombing_en.pdf. Last viewed Sept. 23, 2010.

• Aaleem Gardezi, Drone Strikes: a violation of law, April 13, 2010, found at http://www.pkcolumns.com/2010/04/13/drone-strikes-a-violation-of-law-by-aaleem-gardezi/ Last visited 9/23/2010.

• Richard Goldstone, Human Rights in Palestine and Other Occupied Arab Territories. Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, found at http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/specialsession/9/docs/UNFFMGC_Report.pdf Advance Edited Version

• Thomas Haine, A Legal Framework for Drone Attacks in Pakistan, The Witherspoon Institute. January 26, 2010, http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2010/01/1126. Last visited Sept. 23, 2010.

• Johann Hari, The age of the killer robot is no longer a sci-fi fantasy , The Independent, Jan. 22, 2010, available at http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-the-age-of-the-killer-robot-is-no-longer-a-scifi-fantasy-1875220.html. Last visited Sept. 23, 2010.

• Mark Mazzetti and Eric Schmitt, C.I.A. Steps Up Drone Attacks on Taliban in Pakistan, NY Times, September 27, 2010, available at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/28/world/asia/28drones.html?_r=1#. Last visited on September 28, 2010.

• Jane Mayer, The risks of the C.I.A.’s Predator drones, The New Yorker, Oct. 26, 2009, found at http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/10/26/091026fa_fact_mayer. Last visited Sept. 23, 2010.

• Jeffrey McKitrick, et al., The Revolution in Military Affairs, Battlefield of the Future, Sept. 1995, available at http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/battle/chp3.html. Last visited Sept. 23, 2010.

• Sean D. Murphy, “The International Legality of U.S. Military Cross-Border Operations from Afghanistan into Pakistan.” 85 Int’l. L. Stud. Ser. US Naval War Col. 109 (2009), available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1296733 . Last visited Sept. 27, 2010.

• Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I), 8 June 1977, available at http://www.icrc.org/IHL.NSF/FULL/470?OpenDoument. Last visited Sept. 23, 2010.

• Afsheen John Radshan and Richard W. Murphy, Due Process and Targeted Killing of Terrorists, 31 Cardozo L. Rev. 405 (2009) available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1349357 . Last visited Sept. 27, 2010.

• A.P.V. Rogers, “Zero-casualty warfare.” 837 Int’l. Rev. of the Red Cross 165, 165-81, (2000), available at http://www.icrc.org/Web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/57JQCU. Last visited on Sept. 27, 2010.

• Sherwood Ross. “Pentagon Robot Culture Ominous Development.” OEN – Op Ed News.com, July 10, 2010 http://www.opednews.com/articles/Pentagon-Robot-Culture-Omi-by-Sherwood-Ross-100718-172.html. Last viewed Sept. 23, 2010.

• Michael Schmitt. “Precision attack and international humanitarian law.” 859 Int’l Rev. of the Red Cross 455, 455-66, (2005), available at http://www.icrc.org/Web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/htmlall/review-859-p445/$File/irrc_859_Schmitt.pdf.

• Peter Singer, Wired for War: the Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the Twenty-First Century. New York, Penguin Press, 2009.

• The Gulf War. Weapons: drones (RPVs). Web supplement to Public Broadcasting System Frontline News program. Frontline, 1995, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/weapons/drones.html. Last visited Sept. 23, 2010.

• Zachary Tumlin, “Unmanned and Robotic Warfare.” Harvard University, 2008. http://www.hks.harvard.edu/news-events/news/press-releases/robotic-warfare-pr-apr09, pdf found at http://www.lnwprogram.org/publicfiles/download/Future+of+Unmanned+and+Robotic+Warfare?file_id=505283. Last visited Sept. 23, 2010.

• Peter Tyson, “All About G Forces.” Website of the PBS NOVA television series. NOVA, November 1, 2007, found at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/space/gravity-forces.html. Last visited Sept. 23, 2010.

• Dr. Zeeshan-ul-hassan Usmani, “Pakistan Body Count.” Pakistan Body Count, n.d. , found at http://pakistanbodycount.org/drn.php.

• William Wagner, Lightning Bugs and Other Reconnaissance Drones, Armed Forces J. Int’l. Aero Publishers, 1982.

• Waldemar A. Solf, Lecture in International Law: Terrorism, the Law, and the National Defense’ (1989), 126 Military Law Review 89.

• Andru E. Wall, Legal and Ethical Lessons of NATO’s Kosovo Campaign,78 Naval War College,(2002). Available at: http://0heinonline.org.bianca.penlib.du.edu/HOL/Page?handle=hein.intyb/ilsusnwc0078&id=1&size=2&collection=intyb&index=intyb/ilsusnwc .