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197 Notes 1. Tinkerers, Dictators, and Soldiers of Fortune 1. Curtis Peebles, Dark Eagles: A History of Top Secret U.S. Aircraft (Novato, CA: Presidio, 1995), 207. 2. Peter Finn, “Rise of the Drone: From Calif. Garage to MultibillionDollar Defense Industry,” Washington Post, December 23, 2011, http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/national-security/rise -of-the-drone-from-calif-garage-to-multibillion-dollar-defense -industry/2011/12/22/gIQACG8UEP_story.html. 3. Stephen Trimble, “A History of Predator from the Ultimate Insider,” The DEW Line, March 17, 2011, http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/ the-dewline/2011/03/a-history-of-predator-from-the.html. 4. Steve Coll, Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (New York: Penguin, 2004), 528. 5. Trimble, “History of Predator.” 198 NoteS to pAgeS 5–10 6. Peebles, Dark Eagles, 209. 7. Trimble, “History of Predator.” 8. Greg Goebel, “The General Atomics Predator,” VectorSite.net, February 2, 2001, http://www.vectorsite.net/twuav_07.html. 9. Coll, Ghost Wars, 528. 10. Jon Lake, “The Unmanned Future,” Combat Aircraft magazine, October 2012, 61. 11. Peebles, Dark Eagles, 212. 12. Ibid. 13. Trimble, “History of Predator.” 14. Peebles, Dark Eagles, 212; Goebel, “General Atomics Predator.” 15. Samantha Weinberg, Last of the Pirates: The Search for Bob Denard (New York: Pantheon, 1995), 64–67. 16. Simon Fraser University, Human Security Report, 201, http://hsr group.org/docs/Publications/HSR2012/Figures/2012Report_Fig_5 _3_WarTrends50-09.pdf. 17. Ibid., figure A.1, http://hsrgroup.org/docs/Publications/HSR2012/ Figures/2012Report_Fig_A_1_BDsSBConflict46-09.pdf. 18. Ibid., figures 8.2 and 8.1, http://hsrgroup.org/docs/Publications/ HSR2012/Figures/2012Report_Fig_8_2_CloseupOSVDeaths.pdf, http://hsrgroup.org/docs/Publications/HSR2012/Figures/ 2012Report_Fig_8_1_GlobalCampaignsOSV.pdf. 19. Ibid., figure 8.3, http://hsrgroup.org/docs/Publications/HSR2012/ Figures/2012Report_Fig_8_3_RegionalOSVCampaigns.pdf. 20. William Shawcross, Deliver Us from Evil: Peacekeepers, Warlords and a World of Endless Conflict (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001), 48. 21. “Post Cold-War Surge,” United Nations Peacekeeping, UN.org, http://www.un.org/en/peacekeeping/operations/surge.shtml (accessed February 2013). 22. “Saudis Treating Somali President for Crash Injuries,” Los Angeles Times, May 25, 1986, http://articles.latimes.com/1986-05-25/news/ mn-7297_1_somali-saudis-president. 23. Jane Perlez, “300,000 Somali Refugees Flee Civil War in Sudden Exodus,” Sarasota Herald-Tribune, August 13, 1988, http://news .google.com/newspapers?id=YzAcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=xnkEAAAAIBA J&pg=3442,2925281&dq=somali+national+movement&hl=en. 24. Jane Perlez, “Report for U.S. Says Somali Army Killed 5,000 Unarmed Civilians,” New York Times, September 9, 1989, http:// 199 NoteS to pAgeS 10–16 www.nytimes.com/1989/09/09/world/report-for-us-says-somali -army-killed-5000-unarmed-civilians.html. 25. “65 Reported Slain at Somali Soccer Game,” Los Angeles Times, July 11, 1990, http://articles.latimes.com/1990-07-11/news/mn-232_1 _soccer-game. 26. Jane Perlez, “Unrest Fills Somalia’s Capital as Rebel Groups Press Drive to City,” New York Times, December 12, 1990, http://www .nytimes.com/1990/12/12/world/unrest-fills-somalia-s-capital-as -rebel-groups-press-drive-to-city.html. 27. Perlez, “Report for U.S. Says Somali Army Killed 5,000 Unarmed Civilians.” 28. “Siad Barre Has Fled, Say Rebels,” New Strait Times, January 13, 1991, http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=BhFZAAAAIBAJ&sjid=J5AD AAAAIBAJ&pg=6108,3113170&dq=siad+barre&hl=en. 29. Shawcross, Deliver Us from Evil, 85. 30. Ibid., 86. 31. Tom Zeller Jr., “Back in Somalia, With al Qaeda’s Connection More Clear,” New York Times, January 9, 2007, http://thelede.blogs .nytimes.com/2007/01/09/back-in-somalia-with-al-qaedas -connection-clear/. 32. Jon Mordan, “Press Pools, Prior Restraint and the Persian Gulf War,” Air & Space Power Journal, June 6, 1999, http://www .airpower.au.af.mil/airchronicles/cc/mordan.html. 33. Malcom W. Browne, “Reporting America at War,” PBS, http://www .pbs.org/weta/reportingamericaatwar/reporters/browne/ap_09.html. 34. Mordan, “Press Pools, Prior Restraint and the Persian Gulf War.” 35. Michael Mandel, “The Journalism Job Market: Part I, Looking Back,” Business Week, September 16, 2009, http://www.businessweek.com/ the_thread/economicsunbound/archives/2009/09/the_journalism .html. 36. Greg Myre, “Comoro Islands Nation Tries to Oust Mercenary,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 11, 1989. 37. Weinberg, Last of the Pirates. 38. Ibid., 36–38. 39. Ibid., 70–83. 40. Jamey Keaten, “Ex-French Mercenary Denard Dies at 78,” Washington Post, October 14, 2007, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp -dyn/content/article/2007/10/14...