US perpetrates Boston bombings weekly using drones worldwide: Report
Even as Americans grieve over the Boston Marathon bombings, they should know that US assassination drone strikes worldwide kill many more people weekly and continue unpunished, an analyst says.
Read More →“Brennan killing civilians with drones!” protesters shout at Brennan’s hearing, cause several interruptions
VOR “Don’t drone me, bro!”, Stop CIA murder!” read some of the signs held by protesters who were allowed to Thursday’s confirmation hearing at the Senate Select Intelligence Committee for the CIA director nominee John Brennan. After several consecutive interruptions Committee chairperson Senator Dianne Feinstein halted the hearing and ordered the disturbers be removed from [...]
Read More →US ‘needs to keep up drone war’ against Al-Qaeda in Pakistan to prevent terror attacks: Panetta
ZeeNews The United States will have to keep up an open-ended drone war against al Qaeda militants in Pakistan to prevent another terror attack on America, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has said. The assassination of al Qaeda figures in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia with unmanned, robotic aircraft has provoked widespread criticism from human rights groups [...]
Read More →China, Japan step up drone race as tension over disputed Senkaku islands increases
ANI Drones have taken the centre stage in the growing arms race between China and Japan, as they struggle to assert their claim over disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea. China is rapidly expanding its n drone programme, while Japan has begun preparations to purchase an advanced model from the United States. Both [...]
Read More →Al-Qaeda in Yemen Offers 6 Pounds of Gold for Death of U.S. Ambassador
Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. | The NewAmerican The Obama administration and the CIA have sown the wind in Yemen and now will reap the whirlwind. Various outlets are reporting information posted to Islamist websites placing a bounty of three kilograms (6.6 pounds) of gold on the head of U.S. Ambassador to Yemen Gerald Feierstein. That hefty sum (valued at about $160,000 [...]
Read More →Iran to design, mass produce host of UAVs
PressTV Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi says the country is planning the design and mass production of a wide range of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). “We will use every opportunity to design all kinds of drones,” the Iranian defense minister said on Tuesday. Vahidi said the Iranian Defense Ministry is duty bound to [...]
Read More →U.S. Using Bad Info for Drone Strikes Like It Did for Detainees
FPIF Just as it did in Afghanistan and Iraq, the CIA and U.S. military act on bad intel when designating targets for drone attacks. As when the United States greased the skids for war with Iraq, it’s ratcheting up tensions with Iran by disseminating misinformation about nuclear weapons. The United States has also failed to [...]
Read More →Iran claims to have ‘Israeli military base’ images taken by drone launched by Hezbollah
ANI Iranian authorities have claimed to have images of sensitive Israeli military bases taken by an unmanned aircraft that were launched by Lebanon’s Hezbollah Movement earlier this month. Senior Iranian MP Ismaeil Kowsari called the Israeli bases “forbidden sites”, but gave no details about the photos. Kowsari also suggested Iranian drones have the ability to transmit [...]
Read More →Iran in possession of very advanced drones
PressTV Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi says the radar-evading drone that recently penetrated deep into the Israeli airspace was not Iran’s most advanced unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). “The Islamic Republic of Iran currently has unmanned aerial vehicles with a technology by far more advanced than [that of] the drone recently flown by the [...]
Read More →UK says hearing into U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan would risk denting mutual ties
ANI The British Government has said that a potential court hearing regarding U.S. drone attacks in Pakistan would risk denting ties among the three countries. A Pakistani man, Noor Khan, whose father was killed in a drone strike in 2011, has asked the British high court to examine whether British intelligence officials assisted the CIA [...]
Read More →UK to ‘double armed drone fleet’ in Afghanistan
ANI The British government has reportedly planned to double the number of its armed drone aircraft flying combat and surveillance operations in Afghanistan. In the new squadron of unmanned aerial vehicles ( UAVs), five Reaper drones will be sent to Afghanistan. According to the Guardian, they are likely to begin operations within six weeks. The report [...]
Read More →Britain entangled in legal battle over ‘intelligence sharing’ with US for drone strikes in Pakistan
ANI Britain could be forced to disclose if it helps direct US drone strikes with intelligence from its spy agencies in a legal battle which will start tomorrow. The son of a Pakistani man killed in a strike in Waziristan last year has taken an action against the Foreign Office in an attempt to make [...]
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