U.S. assembling secret drone bases !

britexpat
By britexpat

The grim reapers are near us ..... Is the blueprint of wars of the future ?

The Obama administration is assembling a constellation of secret drone bases for counterterrorism operations in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula

One of the installations is being established in Ethi­o­pia and another base is in the Seychelles, where a small fleet of “hunter-killer” drones resumed operations this month.  The U.S. military also has flown drones over Somalia and Yemen from bases in Djibouti, a tiny African nation at the junction of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. In addition, the CIA is building a secret airstrip in the Arabian Peninsula so it can deploy armed drones over Yemen. The U.S. government is known to have used drones to carry out lethal attacks in at least six countries: Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen.

Full article:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-building-secret-drone-bases-in-africa-arabian-peninsula-officials-say/2011/09/20/gIQAJ8rOjK_story.html?wpisrc=al_national

By Bark_Scorpion• 21 Sep 2011 09:03
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Bark_Scorpion

Not a secret anymore..:(

By anonymous• 21 Sep 2011 09:03
Rating: 5/5
anonymous

AL UDAID is the biggest US Air Base in the whole region of Asia. Now what?

By britexpat• 21 Sep 2011 09:01
britexpat

Didn't forget that. These are bases moving out into North Africa and specifically for drines (reapers)

By anonymous• 21 Sep 2011 08:53
Rating: 5/5
anonymous

Dude! Did you forget? that there are two hugeeeeeeeee US bases here in Qatar? 

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