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Pakistan tribesman ‘to sue CIA’ over drone deaths
A Pakistani tribesman is seeking 500 million dollars in compensation from the CIA after his son and brother were killed in America’s covert drone war against Al-Qaeda, his lawyer said Monday. Kareem Khan from North Waziristan, the district on the Afghan border where the US campaign has stepped up in…
Report: Spy agencies bust terror plot targeting UK, France, Germany
Intelligence agencies have disrupted an Al-Qaeda-linked plot to launch terror attacks in Britain, France and Germany, a report said, citing intelligence sources. Militants based in Pakistan planned simultaneous strikes in London and major cities in France and Germany, Britain’s Sky News television reported Tuesday, adding the plan was advanced but…
CIA used pirated, inaccurate software to target drone attacks: lawsuit
‘They want to kill people with my software that doesn’t work,’ software exec tells court The CIA used illegally pirated software to direct Predator drone attacks, despite apparently knowing the software was inaccurate, according to documents in an intellectual property lawsuit. The lawsuit, working its way through a Massachusetts court,…
Record level of US airstrikes hit Afghan militants
Record number of US airstrikes hit Afghan militants in Pakistani border region Drone aircraft unleashed a missile attack in a lawless tribal region on the Afghan border Wednesday, keeping up the most intense period of U.S. strikes in Pakistan since they began in 2004, intelligence officials said. The stepped-up campaign…
Errant drone near DC almost met by fighter jets
Military almost scrambled fighter jets for errant drone near DC, renewing air safety worries The U.S. military almost launched fighter jets and discussed a possible shoot-down when an errant Navy drone briefly veered into restricted airspace near the nation’s capital last month, a senior military official said Thursday. The incident…
Predator drone patrols of southern US border start Wednesday
PHOENIX (Reuters) – The U.S. government will have unmanned surveillance aircraft monitoring the whole southwest border with Mexico from September 1, as it ramps up border security in this election year, a top official said on Monday. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said U.S. Customs and Border Protection would begin…
UN human rights expert: CIA drone strikes violate laws of war
The use of drones by U.S. intelligence agencies to target suspected militants in Afghanistan, Pakistan and elsewhere lacks the accountability required under international law, a U.N. human rights expert said Friday. Philip Alston, a New York University law professor, will call next week for new international rules to govern the…
ACLU to Obama: ‘Entire world is not a war zone’
UPDATE: CIA drone operators could be prosecuted for war crimes, lawyer tells Congress The US’s unofficial program of targeted killings against terrorist suspects could result in the CIA’s drone operators being prosecuted for war crimes, a prominent law professor told a congressional hearing Wednesday. Loyola Law School professor and former…
Kucinich: US drone attacks in Pakistan could ‘inspire radicalism’
WASHINGTON – Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) forcefully criticized the United States’ drone strikes in Pakistan as inspiring the anti-American sentiments they seek to quell, touching upon a consequence of the policy rarely discussed in the media but well-recognized in the region. “I do not support the drone attacks,” Kucinich told…
As US exports and Iran develops drone tech, Gates frets over ‘non-state actors’
US Defense Secretary Robert Gates expressed concern Thursday over Iran’s aerial drone program, saying the weapons could fall into the hands of terrorists. “Countries like Iran are developing their own UAVs and already have a UAV capability,” Gates told the Senate Appropriations Committee, using the acronym the military uses for…
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