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News Source Record

# News Source Record

**L-Ne / Open-source news extract** — Original media coverage of unmanned aerial systems.

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Collection date | 24 May 2013 |
| Platform | Quiet Systems |
| Data label | Open-source news record // LRRK collection product |
| Handling | Public-source material. Image rights require separate verification before publication. |
| Scale | Global |
| Language | English |
| Terms matched | drones; drone strikes; unmanned drones; unmanned plane |

## Bibliographic

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Outlet | BBC News |
| Title | Barack Obama defends 'just war' using drones |
| Dateline | Washington DC |
| First publisher | yes |
| Original URL | https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-22638533 |
| Archive URL | — |
| Dedup key | 2013-05-24|bbc|obama-ndu-just-war-drones-ppg |
| Source grade | A1 |

## Record

**Verified extract — [Fact — A1]** BBC reported Obama defended drones in a “just war” of self-defence at NDU Thursday, requiring “near certainty” no civilians would die, and defended killing four U.S. citizens. He would accept increased oversight of strikes outside war zones. The speech coincided with signing new “presidential policy guidance” curtailing drones in places that are not overt war zones (Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia). Capture preferred; strikes only amid a “continuing, imminent threat.” Criteria listed: near certainty target present and civilians unharmed; capture not feasible; host nation unwilling/unable; no other reasonable alternative. Reports said the military would assume greater control except CIA in Pakistan. Holder’s Wednesday letter named Anwar al-Awlaki (specifically targeted, Yemen, September 2011), Samir Khan, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki (16), and Jude Kenan Mohammad (South Waziristan, November 2011) — first formal public acknowledgement of U.S. citizen deaths in drone strikes.

**Kinematic object.** U.S. drones under new PPG in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia; 2011 Yemen/Pakistan strikes that killed four Americans

**Coverage frame.** military / regulatory

## Source integrity

- Why this is treated as an original
- Wire reprint status: BBC original global report of the speech and PPG, not a wire reprint.
- What was excluded

- Date 24 May 2013 is the date the first fetched search snippet quoted from this page and matches “Thursday’s address” (23 May) plus next-day file.
- Excluded later related-story chrome.

## LRRK relevance

Control Fabric / Campaign. PPG criteria and first official U.S.-citizen casualty names.

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