The drones have killed some jihadis. But the evidence suggests they create far more jihadis than they kill - and make an attack on me or you more likely with each bomb
"This sounds like a sketch for the next James Cameron movie – but it is in fact an accurate description of life in much of Pakistan today, with the sides flipped. The Predators and Reapers are being sent by Barack Obama's CIA, with the support of other Western governments, and they killed more than 700 civilians in 2009 alone – 14 times the number killed in the 7/7 attacks in London. The floods were seen as an opportunity to increase the attacks, and last month saw the largest number of robot-plane bombings ever: 22. Over the next decade, spending on drones is set to increase by 700 per cent."
Read more-The independant
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Where is Flemming ? he always bragged about how advanced the US is . I want to conditionally agree with him "when it comes to the art of killing".
ReplyDeleteFleming? I don't know, I haven't checked on him for a while, so I'm not sure if he's still posting his demented stuff, though it wouldn't surprise me..Positively insane....
ReplyDeleteThose robotic killing machines that every country is rushing to buy from Israel were developed with American money and tested on the ground in southern Lebanon during the 90s. The same ground testing of American/Israeli weapons was taking place on the Shia population of the south during the occupation that ended in most part in 2000. Phosphorus of all kind, DIME bombs, cluster bombs, DU bombs, you name it and it was tested in Lebanon on the civilian population in the 5 or 6 wars that Israel waged on Lebanon and during its 20-year occupation of 20% of Lebanon. Then Americans wonder why these south Lebanon people keep screaming "al-mott l'a Amrika. al-mott l'a Israeel". The Independant article above describes why but nobody's listening. To those, you now have the people in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan screaming more or less the same thing.
ReplyDeleteWASHINGTON, Oct 18, 2010 (IPS) - New information on the Central Intelligence Agency's campaign of drone strikes in northwest Pakistan directly contradicts the image the Barack Obama administration and the CIA have sought to establish in the news media of a programme based on highly accurate targeting that is effective in disrupting al Qaeda's terrorist plots against the United States.
ReplyDeleteA new report on civilian casualties in the war in Pakistan has revealed direct evidence that a house was targeted for a drone attack merely because it had been visited by a group of Taliban soldiers.
The report came shortly after publication of the results of a survey of opinion within the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan showing overwhelming popular opposition to the drone strikes and majority support for suicide attacks on U.S. forces under some circumstances.