Thursday, September 8, 2011

Drones Have Become The Weapon Of Choice For Targeted Killings


Drones Evolve Into Weapon In Age Of Terror -- Wall Street Journal

Intelligence Services Overcome Philosophical, Legal Misgivings Over Targeted Killings; Pilotless Attacks Doubled in 2010.

The Sept. 11 attacks triggered a revolution in U.S. spycraft as the intelligence services shattered a longstanding taboo by launching an expansive program of targeted killings by remote control.

The intelligence failures that preceded 9/11 rocked U.S. intelligence, prompting an expansion of surveillance in the U.S., and spawning new communications-intercept programs overseas.

But the greatest shift both in tactics and mindset has been the embrace of the pilotless, hunter-killer aircraft known as drones.

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My Comment: What can only imagine what the next ten years will bring.

1 comment:

Kappes said...

9/11 was an inside Job Wall to Wall by the infamous White House Murder INC, and the Gang of criminals in Dc and Tel Aviv...and the whole World knows it....