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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/brennan-nomination-opens-obama-to-criticism-on-secret-targeted-killings/2013/02/05/8f3c94f0-6fb0-11e2-8b8d-e0b59a1b8e2a_story.html

U.S. Has Secret Drone Base in Saudi Arabia

(Washington Post) Greg Miller and Karen DeYoung - A U.S. Justice Department "white paper" disclosed Monday spells out the administration's case for killing Americans accused of being al-Qaeda operatives. The only strike intentionally targeting a U.S. citizen, a 2011 attack that killed al-Qaeda operative Anwar al-Awlaki, was carried out in part by CIA drones flown from a secret base in Saudi Arabia. The base was established two years ago to intensify the hunt against al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, its affiliate in Yemen.

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