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Obama's Second Term Foreign Policy Will Bring New Challenges Over Drone Strikes
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/07/obama-drone-strikes_n_2089836.html
Obama's Second Term Foreign Policy Will Bring New Challenges Over Drone Strikes
Joshua Hersh
Posted: 11/07/2012 5:17 pm EST Updated: 11/08/2012 2:08 am EST
WASHINGTON -- On Wednesday morning, as many Americans sifted through the voter data and exit poll numbers of President Barack Obama's reelection the night before, the Twitter feeds of close watchers of Yemen lit up with reports of another sort of presidential event: an apparent U.S. drone strike had killed several individuals in that country.
There was no way of being certain if the strike was indeed American, or for that matter if it was a drone strike at all, although it had all the markings of one.
"All signs (after dark, suspicions of locals, target) point to Sanhan strike being a US drone," Yemen-based freelance journalist Adam Baron wrote on Twitter.
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Whatever its provenance, the strike served as a macabre reminder of the burdens that Obama faces as he turns his attention away from the campaign and back to the business of being commander in chief.
