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REMOTE CONTROL MURDER
By Julie Hyland
Edited and updated 9/25/2011
Using “Playstation-style” technology, joystick killers in Nevada sit back in the comfort and safety of their chairs where they track down and launch murderous, sneak attacks on people thousands of miles away in Afghanistan. These remote control assassins can even run home for lunch between kills.
The United States is the leader in the use of remote control weaponry. Two pilots, seated side by side are surrounded by a bank of TV screens where they work out of three metal “pods” resembling a cockpit.
“Once they have been briefed about a mission, the pilots rely on an array of systems to run the aircraft. The decisions they make in Nevada travel by fibre-optic cable to Europe, where they are beamed up to a satellite and then back down to Afghanistan. There is a two second delay”.
They fly "virtually" and deliver virtual real-time surveillance of "real" targets. “The drones can fire four Hellfire missiles and two 500 pound laser-guided bombs from five miles away; the target would have no idea a Reaper was overhead”, reported the Guardian.
US author and journalist James Bamford said that there are more than 5,000 robotic vehicles and drones deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan, more than 50 of which can fly at the same time. US drones are operated by the CIA from close to its headquarters in Langley, Virginia, and by the military from airbases in Texas, Nevada and elsewhere. They operate 24/7.
ISRAEL'S PAY-AS-YOU-GO DRONES
Drone use has risen sharply since 2001. The UK government has had three Reaper drones in Afghanistan, and also reportedly rents 450 Hermes drones from Israel on a “pay-as-you-go” basis. By 2030, some 30 percent of the RAF’s capacity will be comprised of drones.
The description of drones as “unmanned” is a misnomer. The 39 Squadron, based at the Creech air force base near Las Vegas, Nevada, is described as an “elite unit formed in haste during 2007”.
THE DRONE WAR
Aviation Week noted, “There is an unofficial but lethal drone war taking place over Pakistan, Yemen and Libya that has expanded the area of operation for US forces beyond Iraq and Afghanistan.
The US government provides no real acknowledgement that anything extraordinary is happening. "The undeclared conflict on these three fronts might be the first Drone War, and warfare has never seen anything like it”.
In Pakistan, an estimated 2,500 people have been killed in US drone attacks since 2004. The Bureau of Investigative Journalism reported that in the week leading up to June 10 this year, more than 50 people had died as a result of such strikes. The attacks “show a return to levels last seen in mid March, prior to Osama bin Laden’s killing”, it said.
UNMANNED MURDER $$$
The Obama administration has ordered more than 200 remote control murder attacks since coming into office. In late April, Obama authorized the use of drones in Libya as it escalated its intervention into the civil war with the aim of regime change. At the end of June, the US launched its first drone attack in Somalia, with the aim of assassinating Islamic militants.
A global scramble for drone technology is underway. A 2011 study by the Teal Group forecast that global spending on “unmanned” aircraft capacity would double to $94 billion by 2021. Over that time, the US intends to double its own drone capacity by 2021—up from 340, currently, to 650. Israel is the second-largest manufacturer in the world, and regularly utilises the technology in its one-sided war against Palestinian militants.
Other countries are increasingly acquiring the technology. China has launched its own development programme, as has India. Pakistan is said to be seeking to obtain armed drones from China. France and Britain are cooperating to develop a new unmanned system, in a partnership between Dassault and BAE Systems. The European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS), the pan-European defence corporation, has developed its own drone, the Talarion.
DRONES OVER NEW YORK
In June, it was reported that the 5,000 MQ-9 Reaper drone will soon start flying training missions over the Adirondacks, northeast New York.
Pilots from the New York Air National Guard’s 174th Fighter Wing, are to fly the Reaper via satellite from bases at Fort Drum and Hancock Field air base in Syracuse. The latter has been the base for drone missions over Afghanistan since December 2009.
The drones will be unarmed and undetectable, it was reported. Uh huh! According to the Watertown Daily Times, “‘It will not be used to spy on residents, because federal law prohibits that use,’ Col. Charles Dorsey, vice commander of fighter wing, told members of the Fort Drum Regional Liaison Organization…”. Uh huh!
The US Customs and Border Protection agency currently flies seven MQ-9 drones along southern and northern borders. It intends to regularly fly them over northern New York by 2016.
DRONES ON 9/11?
Some 9/11 researchers have long held the belief that UAV's (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) were used on 9/11.
9/11 was the excuse that was needed to justify an endless war of terror against Israel's neighbours. It is war that has cost US taxpayers hundreds of billions and taken tens of thousands of american lives. It is a war that has terrorized, bombed, murdered, crippled and impoverished millions of innocent people in the middle east, looted their resources, and occupied their land.
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