JOHN KERRY DEFENDS USA DRONES

US Secretary of State John Kerry has defended Washington’s use of assassination drones, which has already led to massive civilian casualties in different countries around the world.

During his trip to the Ethiopian capital city of Addis Ababa on Sunday, Kerry said the drones were needed to hunt down “terrorists” and that each attack was carried out after “a great deal of vetting.”

He also said the drone program was one of the most "accountable" of programs.

According to Kerry, the unmanned aerial vehicles are used against “confirmed terrorist targets at the highest levels.”

Many independent reports, in particular those on drone strikes in Pakistan, show a high level of civilian deaths as a result of US assassination drone strikes.

Islamabad has repeatedly said the drone attacks are counterproductive, undermine the country’s sovereignty, and lead to civilian casualties.

During a speech at Washington’s National Defense University on May 23, US President Barack Obama defended his country’s use of terror drones as legal, effective, and just.

The United States has used assassination drones in several Muslim countries, including Yemen, Pakistan, and Somalia. Washington claims that they target “terrorists,” but according to witnesses, the attacks have mostly led to massive civilian casualties.

In regions of Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia as well as Sudan–all are Muslim countries— children are having to live with the fear that they could be killed at any point in time while they are sleeping or playing by unmanned drones patrolling the sky.

    

The US-led western regimes Drone Operators in their air-conditioned rooms in Nevada, the US and Lincolnshire-based drone-command, UK, direct drone operations and launch bombs strikes “using joysticks” against targets more than 9000 miles away like “playing video games”. They don’t see the real genocides and destruction they have caused to the civilians, houses and buildings as well as public infrastructures in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Libya and Somalia!

The wars that use this kind of technologies are more dangerous for human beings and all other creatures on this planet and the fate of this planet itself because the operators of the games could not see the real genocides and destruction they have caused on the targets down there on the face of earth!

What is Drone??

Drones are unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). They are aircraft which are either controlled by pilots on the ground, often thousands of miles away from the action,  or  are programmed to function autonomously without any direct human control. Drones can be  used for reconnaisance and surveillance or to drop missiles and bombs.

Pilotless aircraft have been experimented with since the World War I. The first ‘aerial torpedo’ was the Kettering Bug first flown in 1918 but developed too late to be of use in the war. By World War II, radio-controlled surveillance and assault drones had been developed by the US Navy. In 1942 an assualt drone successfully delivered a torpedo attack from a distance of 20 miles but their utililisation remained limited.

The use of drones for reconnaissance took off during the Vietnam war but it was the 1980s which saw a significant development in their military use.  The Predator RQ-1L, made by General Atomics was deployed in the Balkans in 1995, in Iraq in 1996 and Afghanistan from 2001.  This was followed by the development of the Reaper, (also known as Predator B) which became operational in 2007.

Categories: America, Terrorist