Brent Sadler on CNN.com: “As I stood talking into a camera on a remote airstrip in Kandahar, a Predator drone circled the sky, putting me into its sights with its high-precision cameras — and just a trigger away from being turned into the charred remains of a Hellfire missile.
About 8,000 miles away, someone at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada could look at me through the Predator’s zoom lens and determine whether I should live or die. I could not see the Predator or hear it, but I could imagine how it must feel in the control box at Nellis when a high-value target is in their sights.”
Above right, that’s Sadler and his crew, standing at the airstrip, through the Predator’s lens…
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