The Obama administration’s eight-week hiatus from unmanned drone strikes is definitely over. U.S. officials said Thursday that a “senior operations organizer” for al Qaeda was targeted and eliminated by a drone strike in Pakistan last week. Aslam Awan was killed near the border of North Waziristan. He is believed to be the last member of a Pakistan-based al Qaeda cell that Pakistani police have been trying to eliminate since 2008.
