May 8, 2012
Drones in U.S. Flight Paths: What Could Go Wrong? By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/content/drones-us-flight-paths-what-could-go-wrong On March 9th the Federal Aviation Administration requested comments from the public on drone test sites. On May 8th, lengthy comments were submitted by Not 1 More Acre! and Purgatoire, Apishapa & Comanche Grassland Trust. The FAA asked all the [...]
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May 5, 2012
The President’s Private War Andrew Napolitano on drone killings: ‘What monstrous nonsense all this is’ By Andrew Napolitano May 05, 2012 “Information Clearing House” – Did you know that the United States government is using drones to kill innocent people in Pakistan? Did you know that the Pakistani government has [...]
Tags: Anwar al-Awlaki, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, John O. Brennan, Obama, Pakistan, United State, White House
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April 28, 2012
A Game of Drones More Sharing ServicesShare|Share on facebookShare on twitterShare on email Precision-guided mythology masks a brutal truth. By Ximena Ortiz | April 27, 2012 America’s recent foreign policy has been enabled by a central idea: the United States does things differently. It wages wars differently. It suspends habeas [...]
Tags: ABC News, Barack Obama, Bureau of Investigative Journalism, Drone attacks in Pakistan, Obama, Pakistan, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, United State
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April 24, 2012
U.S. relents and grants Pakistani lawyer visa in time for International Drone Summit By davidswanson - Posted on 24 April 2012 From Code Pink, Reprieve, and Center for Constitutional Rights: After months of pressure from human rights activists, the U.S. government has granted Pakistani lawyer Shahzad Akbar a visa to attend [...]
Tags: Akbar, Center for Constitutional Rights, Clive Stafford Smith, Medea Benjamin, Pakistan, Pakistani, United State, Washington DC
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April 9, 2012
Obama Administration Silencing Pakistani Drone-Strike Lawyer By Medea Benjamin April 09, 2012 “Information Clearing House” — When is the last time you heard from a civilian victim of the CIA’s secret drone strikes? Sure, most of them can’t speak because they’re deceased. But many leave behind bereaved and angry family [...]
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April 5, 2012
An undated handout photo of a US Air Force MQ-9 Reaper, a drone aircraft aimed with laser-guided munitions and Hellfire missiles. (Photo: Lt. Col. Leslie Pratt / US Air Force via The New York Times) Drones Flying Under the Radar Thursday, 05 April 2012 09:33By Tom Barry, Truthout | News Analysis Drones are the future, especially [...]
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April 1, 2012
By David Model (about the author) opednews.com This page has been pointing out the terror tactics involved in Drone warfare for quite some time. Obama is possibly the worst Presient the US has produced. The electoral system there is corrupt and simply a plaything for the elite and their money backed up by ruthless media propaganda. [...]
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March 5, 2012
The US has troops stationed on Jolo island, but until now they have maintained an ‘advisory’ role [GALLO/GETTY] This article is the fifth in a series by Ambassador Akbar Ahmed, a former Pakistani high commissioner to the UK, exploring how a litany of volatile centre/periphery conflicts with deep historical roots were interpreted after 9/11 in [...]
Tags: Abu Sayyaf, Akbar Ahmed, Jolo, Manila, middle east, Muslim, Pakistan, Philippine, Sulu Sultanate, United States
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January 25, 2012
US Steps Outside the Law as the War on Terror Drones On The use of unmanned aircraft belies America’s rhetoric about its values. By Justin Randle January 24, 2012 “SMH” — The CIA recently launched its first drone attack of 2012. Three people in North Waziristan were [...]
Tags: AlQaeda, Anwar al-Awlaki, Barack Obama, Central Intelligence Agency, General Atomics MQ-1 Predator, Pakistan, United States, Waziristan
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January 16, 2012
Nick Turse, Drone Disasters Posted by Nick Turse at 9:00pm, January 15, 2012. After almost two months in abeyance and the (possibly temporary) loss of Shamsi Air Base for its air war, the CIA is again cranking up its drone operations in the Pakistani tribal borderlands. The first two attacks of 2012 were launched within 48 hours [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Bureau of Investigative Journalism, Central Intelligence Agency, London, Nick Turse, Pakistan, Shamsi Airfield, TomDispatch.com
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December 20, 2011
Nick Turse, The Life and Death of American Drones Posted by Nick Turse at 9:40am, December 20, 2011. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: ‘Tis the season, of course, and it’s clear that some of you feel in an end-of-the-year giving mood, which is wonderful for TomDispatch and our future operations. If others among you are suddenly gripped [...]
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December 19, 2011
Human Rights Watch Asks Obama What Legal Contortions He Favors to Justify Routine Murder by Unmanned Drone By davidswanson - Posted on 19 December 2011 Dear President Obama, We previously wrote to you on December 7, 2010, to express our concerns regarding the US targeted killing program. We made recommendations that would minimize harm to civilians and ensure [...]
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December 17, 2011
Several reports have stated that British intelligence has provided locations for alleged militants targeted by the CIA’s campaign. Photograph: Ethan Miller/Getty Images link http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/17/william-hague-questioned-drone-strike Lawyers for the son of a victim of US drone strikes in Pakistan have asked foreign secretary William Hague to clarify whether British intelligence has helped the CIA’s “targeted killing” programme. A law firm acting on [...]
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December 14, 2011
The epicenter of global terrorism, and the CIA’s highly classified drone war against extremist groups, is a black hole on the map — a region of Pakistan off limits to outsiders, and especially Westerners. It’s anarea so dangerous that even the Pakistani military avoids it. The CIA may have launched 70 drone strikes in tribal [...]
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December 12, 2011
By Julie Webb-Pullman With the Gaza death toll within 48 hours at 5, the latest victim a 12 year old boy, Israel‘s chief of staff Benny Gantz gathered his top army, air force and naval commanders on Friday to “review the security situation.” A “security situation” created by Israel’s murderous breaking of a truce, with [...]
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December 5, 2011
US Begins Pullout From Pakistan’s Shamsi Airbase Planes Arrive at Secretive Drone Base to Pack Up After Eviction by Jason Ditz, December 04, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The secretive Shamsi Airbase in Pakistan’s Balochistan Province saw some [...]
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November 29, 2011
Pakistanis have become increasingly angry over US drone attacks that kill civilians, such as 16-year-old Tariq Aziz [EPA] This weekend, Pakistan ordered the closure of the US drone base after a US attack killed 26 Pakistani soldiers near the Afghan border. This news will be welcomed by the people of Waziristan, where communities have borne [...]
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November 29, 2011
As if to show the world just how important the drones are to modern murder, or warfare if you prefer it seems nothing at the moment will stop their use. Here in Australia we should hang our heads in shame after a spectacularly stupid decision by an ex rock and roller, Peter Garrett leased our [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, CIA, International Security Assistance Force, ISLAMABAD, NATO, Pakistan, Shamsi Airfield, United States
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November 24, 2011
Richard Silverstein says Israel set a drone to explode in a Hezbollah arms depot. BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — An American blogger reported Wednesday that Israel’s military intelligence managed to outfox Hezbollah by deliberately crash-landing a booby-trapped drone which later exploded in an arms depot operated by the Shiite movement. Richard Silverstein, quoting “an authoritative Israeli source [...]
Tags: Hezbollah, Israel, Lebanon, middle east, Silverstein, Tikkun Olam, Tikun Olam, United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon
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November 22, 2011
Droning On Someday soon, you’ll be checking your new Clear Skies app as a routine part of your preparations to go out for the evening. First, you’ll look at your smart gizmo to read your latest email to make sure there hasn’t been any change in plans. A quick glance at Facebook lets you see [...]
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November 7, 2011
A group of Pakistanis met in Islamabad late last month to discuss the impact of U.S. drone strikes in their communities. One of the attendees was a 16-year-old boy named Tariq Aziz, who had volunteered to learn photography to begin documenting drone strikes near his home. Within 72 hours of the meeting, Aziz was killed [...]
Tags: Anwar al-Awlaki, Bureau of Investigative Journalism, Central Intelligence Agency, CorpWatch, ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Pratap Chatterjee, Tariq Aziz
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October 28, 2011
Drone warfare headqyarters New US Drone Base in Ethiopia is Operational by John Glaser, October 27, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The United States has been secretly flying armed Reaper drones on bombing missions from a remote civilian airport in southern Ethiopia as part of a rapidly expanding proxy war against [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Anwar al-Awlaki, Craig Whitlock, East Africa, Ethiopia, Obama administration, October 27th 2011, Somalia, United State, United States, Washington Post, Yemen
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August 24, 2011
US Drone Strike Kills Five in North Waziristan Villagers Complain of Rising Fear Over Constant Drone Strikes by Jason Ditz, August 23, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum A US drone fired a pair of missile attacks against the Nork area of the town of Miramshah in North Waziristan Agency today, killing at [...]
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August 19, 2011
LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on the latest headlines via email. More Than 160 Children Killed in America’s Drone War in Pakistan One in seven of all US strikes appear to have resulted in child fatalities. August 14, 2011 | This story first appeared on the Bureau [...]
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August 17, 2011
The Obama administration decided that it was not concerned about drone strikes upsetting Pakistanis EPA] Pakistani civilian and military leaders are insisting on an effective veto over which targets US drone strikes hit, according to well-informed Pakistani military sources here. The sources, who met on condition that they not be identified, said that such veto [...]
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August 16, 2011
Drone War Exposed – the complete picture of CIA strikes in Pakistan August 10th, 2011 | by Chris Woods | Published in All Stories, Covert Drone War, Drones carousel | 3 Comments CIA drone strikes have led to far more deaths in Pakistan than previously understood, according to extensive new research published by the Bureau. More than 160 children are [...]
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August 14, 2011
Aspen, Colorado. [Photo: Glenn Gabel] All tension with Pakistan aside, the US shows no sign of stopping its use of unmanned drones to kill al-Qaeda members in Pakistan’s tribal areas. Top national security officials fled the steamy debt debate in DC to take part in the Aspen Security Forum in cool Colorado last week, but they [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, American Civil Liberties Union, Barack Obama, Douglas Lute, Husain Haqqani, North Waziristan, Pakistan, United States
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August 11, 2011
168 Children Murdered By US Drones John Glaser, August 11, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) last month began to publish their findings in a study of the U.S. drone war in Pakistan. The study found that much higher rates of civilian casualties had resulted from [...]
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August 3, 2011
US Envoys Accuse Pakistan of ‘Harassment’ as Tensions Rise As Diplomats Hold Talks, US Launches More Drone Strikes by Jason Ditz, August 02, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum US and Pakistani diplomats are meeting today amid ever worsening relations between the two nations. The latest issue are new [...]
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July 31, 2011
US Predator drones have played a large role in the CIA’s extrajudicial killing program in Pakistan, where some 2,500 people in Pakistan, mostly civilians, have been killed by US forces since June 2004 [EPA] They call it “bug splat“, the splotch of blood, bones, and viscera that marks the site of a successful drone strike. To those [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Bureau of Investigative Journalism, Central Intelligence Agency, Clive Stafford Smith, George W. Bush, Pakistan, Tara McKelvey, United State
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July 30, 2011
As for the comments of General Lute in the post on this page read this and see for yourself where these alleged Al Qaeda connections are and how foolish it is to suggest that some sort of knockout punch can be delivered in Pakistan. As long as the US keeps its extremely close links to [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Anwar al-Awlaki, Arabian Peninsula, English language, Fort Hood, Islamic terrorism, Nidal Malik Hasan, United States Army
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July 30, 2011
ASPEN, Colorado — Ground the U.S. drone war in Pakistan. Rethink the idea of spending billions of dollars to pursue al-Qaida. Forget chasing terrorists in Yemen and Somalia, unless the local governments are willing to join in the hunt. Those aren’t the words of some human rights activist, or some far-left Congressman. They’re from retired [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Dennis C. Blair, Leon Panetta, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Somalia, United States, Yemen
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July 29, 2011
WASHINGTON — Though the withdrawal of American military forces from Iraq and Afghanistan will save the nation billions of dollars a year, another cost of war is projected to continue rising for decades to come: caring for the veterans. Philip Scott Andrews/The New York Times When you embark on an immoral, illegal and criminal act like a war [...]
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July 23, 2011
Study Rebuts US Claims of ‘No Civilian Deaths’ in Pakistan Drone Strikes by Naseema Noor, July 23, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum ( ikners.com has consistently warned about the use of these weapons of mass murder, they are lovingly described by by perverted officers as Guardian Angels. George Ikners ikners,com) As the Pakistani [...]
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July 23, 2011
US military weighs more Predator drones for Libya 22 Jul 2011 21:10 Source: Reuters // Reuters * NATO wants more aircraft in 4-month-old bombing campaign * U.S. again debating whether to arm rebels, official says By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON, July 22 (Reuters) – As the war in Libya drags on, the U.S. military is [...]
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July 21, 2011
How Not to Make Friends in the Greater Middle East Washington’s Singular Accomplishment By Tom Engelhardt In the method, there is madness; in the comedy, nightmare; in the tragedy, farce. And despite everything, there’s still good news when it comes to what Americans can accomplish in the face of the impossible! No, not a debt-ceiling deal [...]
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July 20, 2011
Lying About Civilian Casualties in Drone War John Glaser, July 19, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum Apparently John Brennan, President Obama’s counter-terrorism advisor, told the public last month that zero (that’s right, zero) civilian casualties have occurred as a result of U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan. For anyone reading Antiwar.com on [...]
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July 19, 2011
Photos from the Ground Show Civilian Casualties By Hasnain Kazim Noor Behram In the US, remote-controlled drones are considered great tools in the war on terror. For years Washington has sent these high-tech weapons into western Pakistan, lauding their precision. But a local journalist says he has photographic evidence that civilians are often the victims. Noor [...]
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July 17, 2011
US drone strikes in Pakistan are condemned by protesters at a rally in Waziristan along the Afghanistan border. Photograph: Khalid Tanveer/AP For the past three years, Noor Behram has hurried to the site of drone strikes in his native Waziristan. His purpose: to photograph and document the impact of missiles controlled by a joystick thousands [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Central Intelligence Agency, Clive Stafford Smith, Drone attacks in Pakistan, Pakistan, Taliban, United State, Waziristan
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July 15, 2011
The CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Photograph: Danita Delimont/Getty Images/Gallo Images Campaigners against US drone strikes in Pakistan are calling for theCIA‘s former legal chief to be arrested and charged with murder for approving attacks that killed hundreds of people. Amid growing concern around the world over the use of drones, lawyers and relatives of [...]
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July 13, 2011
US politicians continue to press for detainees captured overseas to be tried in military courts [EPA] When Ahmed Warsame was captured by US forces in April, he didn’t know that he would be interrogated on a ship at sea, then rendered to trial in New York City nearly three months later. It also probably didn’t occur [...]
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July 13, 2011
The Pentagon wants the White House to “hold off on ending the Afghanistan troop surge until the fall of 2012″ [GALLO/GETTY] Among multiple layers of deception and newspeak, the official Washington spin on the strategic quagmire in Afghanistan simply does not hold. No more than “50-75 ‘al-Qaeda types’ in Afghanistan”, according to the CIA, have [...]
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July 12, 2011
Obama’s Bush-League World Is the Obama National Security Team a Pilotless Drone? By Tom Engelhardt George W. who? I mean, the guy is so over. He turned the big six-five the other day and it was barely a footnote in the news. And Dick Cheney, tick-tick-tick. Condoleezza Rice? She’s already onto her next memoir, and yet it’s as [...]
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July 12, 2011
US Drone Strike Kills 12 in North Waziristan Several Others Reported Wounded in Datta Khel Attack by Jason Ditz, July 11, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum US drones today fired at least four missiles against a house and a vehicle in the Datta Khel district of Pakistan’s North Waziristan Agency, killing at [...]
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July 11, 2011
Exclusive to The Gulf Today Reports about an alleged CIA drone base targeting militants of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) based in Yemen appear contradictory. Some say that the US spy agency was trying to build a drone facility for surveillance and attack in Yemen itself similar to another on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Arabian Peninsula, Central Intelligence Agency, Joint Special Operations Command, Osama bin Laden, Saudi Arabia, United States
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July 6, 2011
British Drone Kills Four Afghan Civilians in Helmand Attack Is First Confirmed UK Drone Killing of Civilians by Jason Ditz, July 05, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum A British Reaper drone has killed at least four civilians and wounded two others in an attack in the Afghanistan’s Helmand Province, the first time [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, British Armed Forces, David Cameron, Helmand Province, Libya, NATO, United State, Warfare and Conflict
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July 6, 2011
Obama Counterterrorism Strategy Lies and Fails John Glaser, July 05, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum When the Obama administration last week released their new National Strategy for Counterterrorism I naively expected some honest iteration of policy of the kind that slip through in declassified NSC reports. That wasn’t the case. Rather, [...]
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July 6, 2011
This article exposes the true US attitude to the use of drones and the nature of the lies needed to justify their use anywhere. These awful killing machines masquerade as surveillance vehicles, soldiers guardian angels, tactical defence weapons and a never ending stream of lies and deceit to cover up what is happening. What they [...]
Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, Drone attacks in Pakistan, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Pakistan, Police action, Somalia, Thomas E. Ricks, United States, Unmanned aerial vehicle, War
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July 2, 2011
Turning imagination into reality is not impossible. (Via Aljazeera) By Aurangzeb Qureshi Having had the luxury of being brought up in the West, I consider myself fortunate to not have lived under brutal dictators, self-serving monarchs, repressive laws and bloody conflicts. I always had the freedom to partake in protests, express dissent through writing and [...]
Tags: Aljazeera, Arab, Arab people, Arab world, Barack Obama, Democracy, United States, Washington Monument
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July 2, 2011
More U.S. troop deaths raise questions about strategy BY NANCY A. YOUSSEF MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS WASHINGTON – June was the deadliest month in nearly a year for U.S. service members in Afghanistan and Iraq even as the United States said that improved security in both countries allows it to reduce troops in those war zones. Sixty U.S. [...]
Tags: Afghan National Army, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Helmand Province, Iraq, NATO, United State, United States Armed Forces
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