Posted on 10/28/2013 6:34:06 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Last week, Amnesty International released a report on U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan, concluding that as many as 900 civilians might have been killed and 600 seriously injured in the attacks since 2004, when the controversial program began.
The United States launched between 330 to 374 drone strikes in Pakistan between 2004 and September 2013, according to the report. And those strikes have created a culture of fear on the ground.
"I wasn't scared of drones before," Nabeela, an 8-year-old whose grandmother, Mamana Bibi, was killed by a 2012 drone strike, says in the report. "But now when they fly overhead I wonder, 'Will I be next?'"
Nabeela is not alone.
A new documentary, "Wounds of Waziristan," reveals the story of drones as told by the people who live under them.
"There is an entire generation that has grown up under the eye of the drones," director Madiha Tahir said in a recent interview. "People tell me there are multiple drones that hover during the day, but they tend to usually strike at night. You never know when they are going to strike, and that has created an incredible amount of psychological stress."
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Drones.
Fly them day and night.
Revelation 13:4
“Who is like the beast? Who can wage war against it?”
Today, Camp Lemonnier is the centerpiece of an expanding constellation of half a dozen U.S. drone and surveillance bases in Africa, created to combat a new generation of terrorist groups across the continent, from Mali to Libya to the Central African Republic. The U.S. military also flies drones from small civilian airports in Ethiopia and the Seychelles, but those operations pale in comparison to what is unfolding in Djibouti.
Lemonnier also has become a hub for conventional aircraft. In October 2011, the military boosted the airpower at the base by deploying a squadron of F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jets, which can fly faster and carry more munitions than Predators.
In its written responses, Africa Command confirmed the warplanes’ presence but declined to answer questions about their mission. Two former U.S. defense officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the F-15s are flying combat sorties over Yemen, an undeclared development in the growing war against al-Qaeda forces there.
Coming from the people who were harboring Bin Laden.
Victims of Hellfires are mostly body parts. You’ll have a time of it finding one that talks.
LOL
They must feel like people on a bus in Israel. Ironic.
The use of drones to launch missiles against targets on foreign soil is an act of war. As such it should only be done when we have formally declared war against the nation (or when an imminent threat exists thereby bypassing this constitutional requirement) which has soveriegn jurisdiction over the location in question or have an agreement by ratified treaty to allow us to use these drone attacks.
The AUMF authorized with a limited scope “force against those nations, organizations, or persons he [i.e. the then current president] determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons”.
Notice the past tense of the verbs? The AUMF was not an open ended authorization for an ongoing war against anyone the White House deems to be a terrorist today. It was a short-term authorization to go after the terrorists who were responsible for 911.
If it were open ended and permanent (which some claim it to be), it would be an unconstitutional transfer of war powers from Congress to the Executive branch.
Amnesty International released a report on U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan, concluding that as many as 900 civilians might have been killed and 600 seriously injured in the attacks since 2004... The United States launched between 330 to 374 drone strikes in Pakistan between 2004 and September 2013...
The media is deeply saddened that a Democrat President is responsible and therefore criticism must be suppressed.
I think Bush launched 50 of them.
This is why I laughed, outloud, in the faces of all those who got on their knees and opened their mouths to suck down and swallow the blatant idiocy that we should rely exclusively, or even primarily, on drone attacks.
Now we get hammered by blatant propaganda of mights and may haves to slime and slander any and all efforts to cull that murderous horde.
It’s not only that reliance on drones is dumb***ery of the highest order, but that such methods are even that much easier to convince the usual suspects and other assorted Useful Idiots to cry out against.
As a nation, and a culture, we no longer even have a functional concept of fighting to win.
Well, sure, but HIS only hit wedding receptions and baby formula factories, maybe some daycare centers, and worst of all, schools for girls. /s
A map of the Sahel region showing where Al Qaeda operates (AFP/Graphic)
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