US drone strikes guided from outback

By Philip Dorling
Updated July 21 2013 - 12:13pm, first published 3:00am

Central Australia's Pine Gap spy base played a key role in the United States' controversial drone strikes involving the ''targeted killing'' of al-Qaeda and Taliban chiefs, Fairfax Media can reveal.

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