US hunter-killer drones 'flying from Seychelles' Chris Woods from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism has studied the use of drone warfare by the US, which is led by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
U.S. building secret drone bases overseas: report. U.S. building secret drone bases in Africa, Arabian Peninsula, officials say. The U.S. military also has flown drones over Somalia and Yemen from bases in Djibouti, a tiny African nation at the junction of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.
In addition, the CIA is building a secret airstrip in the Arabian Peninsula so it can deploy armed drones over Yemen. The rapid expansion of the undeclared drone wars is a reflection of the growing alarm with which U.S. officials view the activities of al-Qaeda affiliates in Yemen and Somalia, even as al-Qaeda’s core leadership in Pakistan has been weakened by U.S. counterterrorism operations. The U.S. government is known to have used drones to carry out lethal attacks in at least six countries: Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen. In tropical paradise, U.S. drones meant revenue - Checkpoint Washington. Posted at 08:09 AM ET, 09/22/2011 Sep 22, 2011 12:09 PM EDT TheWashingtonPost U.S.
Navy Commander Greg Hand speaks to participants during a media day event in Victoria, Seychelles, in 2009. SBC Seychelles: Drones to Help Fight Piracy 06-11-09. US sets up drone base in Ethiopia - News By KEVIN KELLEY, New York The United States is building a base in Ethiopia from which drones will be flown over Somalia, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday.
U.S. Expands Drone Flights to Take Aim at East Africa. In The Hunt For Al-Qaida, Drone Program Expands. Hide captionU.S.
Army Sgt. Don Stolle launches a Raven surveillance drone from Achin, Afghanistan, on Aug. 30. The drones have been widely used in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq, and now the military plans to employ them in other areas as it tracks suspected terrorists. John Moore/Getty Images. THE ROVING EYE : The US power grab in Africa. THE ROVING EYE The US power grab in Africa By Pepe Escobar Beware of strangers bearing gifts.
Post-modern Amazon and United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton finally landed in Tripoli - on a military jet - to lavish praise on the dodgy Transitional National Council (TNC), those pportunists/defectors/Islamists formerly known as "North Atlantic Treaty Organization rebels". Clinton was greeted on Tuesday "on the soil of free Libya" (her words) by what the New York Times quaintly described as an "irregular militia" (translation: a heavily armed gang that is already raising hell against other heavily armed gangs), before meeting TNC chairman Mustafa Abdel-NATO (formerly known as Jalil).
The bulk of the US gifts - US$40 million - on top of the $135 Clinton told students at the University of Tripoli, "We are on your side. " A few hundred soldiers and no less than 80,000 civilians have been bombed for weeks by NATO and the former "rebels". It gets much nastier. So why Uganda? US drone strikes kill over 100 in 2 days. US drone strikes kill over 100 in 2 days A US Predator drone (file photo) More than one hundred people have been killed in US drone strikes in Somalia, Pakistan's northwestern tribal region bordering Afghanistan, and Yemen over the past two days.
On Saturday, 15 people were killed and 43 others were injured when the US military launched an attack using a remote-controlled unmanned aerial vehicle on the village of Bilis Qooqaani, which is located in southern Somalia, 448 kilometers (278 miles) west of the capital Mogadishu. Somalis Under Relentless Drone Attack as U.S. Tightens Military Grip on Continent. Printer-friendly version A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford Africa, under President Obama, is an expanding theater of war for the United States.
There are few points on the African map where the U.S. military does not operate, independently, through proxies, or by agreement with local governments and militaries. AFRICOM has penetrated the armed forces of the continent to a degree no single European power could have ever aspired. Indeed, “the U.S. has so thoroughly infiltrated African armies, many, if not most, would be of no use for national defense against the Americans.” Gadhafi's convoy bombed by drone flown by pilot in Las Vegas. Colonel Moammar Gadhafi's convoy was bombed by an American Predator drone and then attacked by French jets before the deposed dictator was killed by rebel fighters, defence sources disclosed on Thursday night. Nato forces designated Gadhafi as a military target after the former Libyan leader's forces started firing on civilians as they tried to escape Sirte in a convoy of up to 100 vehicles. It is understood that RAF Tornados were patrolling over Sirte at the time of the escape attempt but were not directly involved in the operation.
Gadhafi had been under surveillance by Nato forces for the past week after an intelligence breakthrough allowed them to pinpoint his location. An American drone and an array of Nato eavesdropping aircraft had been trained on his Sirte stronghold to ensure he could not escape. Intelligence sources have suggested that in his last days Gadhafi broke his rigid rule of telephone silence and was overheard using either a mobile or satellite phone. US drone attack kills 18 in Somalia. US drones track Somali pirates. Secret drone bases: Avoiding past mistakes - Checkpoint Washington. Posted at 09:48 AM ET, 09/21/2011 Sep 21, 2011 01:48 PM EDT TheWashingtonPost A Reaper in Seychelles, which unlike some of the other bases, has been previously acknowledged as a site for drones.
