Exposed : Secret CIA Base For Drone Raids

[Orwellian_Ghost]

Google Earth reveals secret history of US base in Pakistan



The Shamsi airbase in 2006 with three drones apparently visible
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Jeremy Page


The US was secretly flying unmanned drones from the Shamsi airbase in Pakistan's southwestern province of Baluchistan as early as 2006, according to an image of the base from Google Earth.

The image — that is no longer on the site but which was obtained by The News, Pakistan's English language daily newspaper — shows what appear to be three Predator drones outside a hangar at the end of the runway. The Times also obtained a copy of the image, whose co-ordinates confirm that it is the Shamsi airfield, also known as Bandari, about 200 miles southwest of the Pakistani city of Quetta.

An investigation by The Times yesterday revealed that the CIA was secretly using Shamsi to launch the Predator drones that observe and attack al-Qaeda and Taleban militants around Pakistan's border with Afghanistan.

US special forces used the airbase during the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, but the Pakistani Government said in 2006 that the Americans had left. Both sides have since denied repeatedly that Washington has used, or is using, Pakistani bases to launch drones. Pakistan has also demanded that the US cease drone attacks on its tribal area, which have increased over the last year, allegedly killing several “high-value” targets as well as many civilians.

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article5762371.ece

[patrice]

1. Oh Honey, Trans-National corps are soooooooo totally into remote control Machine Warfare!

There can be NO doubt about this.

It doesn't take much of a stretch of the imagination to see how many thousands and thousands of ways that this sort of thing will PERPETUATE itself and Oppression will progress geometrically.

God DAMN them!

[originalpckelly]

2. The thing is, that it's finally levelling the playing field again.

If we should ever need to, it's possible to build these things at home. In fact, some of the homegrown stuff is more sophisticated, if you can believe it. They have jet engines for these things, ones that could leave a predator behind in the dust.

We the people could never build multi-million dollar F-16s, but we can certainly build mini-jets. It's not that hard to do this stuff anymore.

[patrice]

3. The only courageous and, ergo, moral form of War is that which occurs

directly between FREE human beings who have chosen to fight to the death.

Everything else is proof positive of FAILED leadership and why would anyone follow failed leaders any more than what is absolutely un-avoidable.