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Hezbollah confirms sending drone into Israeli airspace

By   /  October 11, 2012  /  Breaking News, Conflict, World  /  No Comments

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PressTV Hezbollah Secretary-General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah confirms the Lebanese resistance movement has sent a drone deep into the Israeli airspace evading radar systems. The operation code-named Hussein Ayub saw Hezbollah’s drone fly hundreds of kilometers into the Israeli airspace and getting very close to Dimona nuclear plant without being detected by advanced Israeli and US [...]

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Drones termed as Obama’s ‘personal execution device’

By   /  October 3, 2012  /  Politics, World  /  No Comments

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ANI Terming drones as the ” personal execution device” of U.S. President Barack Obama, senior member of the American anti-war delegation, Mary Ann Wright has held the president directly responsible for the U.S. drone operations in any part of the world, sanctioned by him every week. Addressing a seminar at the Institute of Policy Studies [...]

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American Drones for Covert Underwater Warfare against Iran

By   /  September 30, 2012  /  Conflict, World  /  1 Comment

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By Julie Lévesque | Global Research Obscuring the devastating effects of U.S. drones killing innocent civilians around the world, it is with a touch of rather inappropriate humor and enthusiasm that the military consulting company Strike Fighter Consulting speaks highly of the U.S. Navy’s new Unmanned Underwater Vehicles in its recently published article, Unmanned Drones Take to the Seas: “It looks like drone [...]

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US drone strikes ineffective, says a study

By   /  September 25, 2012  /  In Other News  /  No Comments

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NewsLeaks Just one in 50 victims of “surgical” US drone strikes in Pakistan are known militants, a report claimed on Tuesday. The use of drones in the covert war run by the US against violent Islamists has been documented in a new report by legal experts at Stanford and New York universities. The product of [...]

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‘Compelling’ evidence of UK passing on info to U.S. for drone attacks in Pakistan

By   /  September 18, 2012  /  Conflict, World  /  No Comments

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ANI There is “pretty compelling” evidence that the Government’s listening post, the UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) is passing information to the U.S. to help it locate targets for drone attacks in Pakistan’s tribal areas, believed to be a terror hub of the Haqqani network and the Taliban, it has been claimed. Former director of [...]

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US Drone Strikes Target Rescuers in Pakistan – And The West Stays Silent

By   /  August 22, 2012  /  Conflict, World  /  No Comments

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EuropeanPhoenix US policies justified in the name of fighting terrorism – aside from being rather terroristic themselves – are precisely those which fuel the anti-American hatred that causes those attacks. European Phoenix — THE US GOVERNMENT has long maintained, reasonably enough, that a defining tactic of terrorism is to launch a follow-up attack aimed at [...]

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Pentagon, CIA Sued for Lethal Drone Attacks on U.S. Citizens

By   /  July 21, 2012  /  News, Police State, World  /  1 Comment

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By David Kravets | Threat Level Survivors of three Americans killed by targeted drone attacks in Yemen last year sued top-ranking members of the United States government, alleging Wednesday they illegally killed the three, including a 16-year-old boy, in violation of international human rights law and the U.S. Constitution. “The government has killed three Americans. [...]

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UN questions legality of U.S. drone attacks

By   /  June 24, 2012  /  Conflict, World  /  No Comments

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Lisa Karpova Pravda.ru On Wednesday, a rapporteur of the United Nations Organization (UNO) condemned the drone attacks carried out by U.S. forces that have killed thousands, and has questioned the legality of such aerial assaults. The UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary executions, Cristoff Heyns, in his report of 28 pages submitted to the UN [...]

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The New Obama Doctrine, A Six-Point Plan for Global War

By   /  June 16, 2012  /  Conflict, World  /  No Comments

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By Nick Turse The American Empire Project Special Ops, Drones, Spy Games, Civilian Soldiers, Proxy Fighters, and Cyber Warfare It looked like a scene out of a Hollywood movie.  In the inky darkness, men in full combat gear, armed with automatic weapons and wearing night-vision goggles, grabbed hold of a thick, woven cable hanging from [...]

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Court case over drone strike ‘could force UK to reveal intelligence exchanges with U.S.’

By   /  May 25, 2012  /  Conflict, World  /  No Comments

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ANI Human rights lawyers acting on behalf of a Pakistani student are seeking a judicial review aimed at forcing the Foreign Secretary to say whether there is such a policy, in a case which threatens to expose ministers to allegations of war crimes. The court action was brought by Noor Khan whose father was killed [...]

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US Selling Drones to Iraq

By   /  May 22, 2012  /  Politics, World  /  No Comments

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Jim Michaels RSN The United States has agreed to sell unarmed surveillance drones to Iraq’s navy as part of an effort to help protect that nation’s oil exports amid growing tensions in the Persian Gulf and to strengthen U.S.-Iraqi ties. “They understand the importance of the mission to protect its oil platforms,” said Army Lt. Gen. Robert Caslen, who [...]

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U.S. refuses Pak proposal of joint drone attacks in country

By   /  May 7, 2012  /  Conflict, World  /  No Comments

U.S. refuses Pak proposal

ANI Pakistan Defence Minister Ahmed Mukhtar has said the country had offered the U.S. to jointly carry out drone strikes in the restive Tribal Areas, but the Obama administration turned down the proposal. Mukhtar said Pakistan was willing to maintain its relations with the U.S. and had asked Washington to stop drone strikes in Pakistan, [...]

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