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What if you could wage war like playing a video game—directing relatively precise missile strikes on your enemy from electronic bunkers half way around the world? How would you limit the scope of such an enterprise or determine who ended up on the hit list?

The CIA's drone war against the leaders of Al Qaeda has been a seductive success to date, eliminating as many as two dozen of the group's top leaders. However, as many as two hundred innocent bystanders have been killed in the process and new anger against the US is beginning to burn in the jagged mountains of the Hindu Kush. Unintended consequences are waiting to explode like a Hellfire missile in flight.