(Washington Post) Peter Finn - In 1980, Abraham Karem, an engineer who had emigrated from Israel, retreated into his garage outside Los Angeles and began to build an aircraft. When Karem finished a year later, he wheeled into his driveway an odd, cigar-shaped craft that was destined to change the way the U.S. wages war. More than a decade of development later, Karem's drone became the Predator, whose controllers thousands of miles away in the U.S. launch Hellfire missiles toward targets they are watching on video screens.
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