THE DRONE PAPERS -- A VISUAL GLOSSARY

A VISUAL GLOSSARY

DECODING THE LANGUAGE OF COVERT WARFARE

THE DRONE PAPERS

1. 01.THE ASSASSINATION COMPLEX
2. 02.A VISUAL GLOSSARY
3. 03.THE KILL CHAIN
4. 04.FIND, FIX, FINISH
5. 05.MANHUNTING IN THE HINDU KUSH
6. 06.FIRING BLIND
7. 07.THE LIFE AND DEATH OF OBJECTIVE PECKHAM
8. 08.TARGET AFRICA

ARTICLE №2 OF 8    THE DRONE PAPERS

Josh Begley

Oct. 15 2015, 12:58 p.m.

This is a labyrinth with 12 entrances and no exit. It is built on a cache of documents provided toThe Intercept by a source within the intelligence community.

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Click any arrow to enter a rabbit hole. Each serves as a back door into one of our stories.

BIRDS 

The first bomb dropped from an airplane exploded in an oasis outside Tripoli on November 1, 1911.¹

While flying over Ain Zara, Libya, Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti leaned out of his airplane, which looked like a dragonfly, and dropped a Haasen hand grenade. It landed “in the camp of the enemy, with good results.”