Image CBSLibya: The Real U.S. Drone War -- The Danger Room
It took Predator drones about three weeks from the start of NATO’s war against Moammar Gadhafi to arrive in the skies over Libya. Since then, they’ve been busy: from April 21 to 9 a.m. Central European Time today, the Predators have launched 145 strikes, according to Pentagon spokesman George Little.
By comparison, that’s way more than twice the 57 drone strikes so far this year in Pakistan, the central locale for the U.S. drone war, and significantly more than 2010’s entire all-time-high of 117 drone strikes in Pakistan.
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Update: US drones bombed Libya more than Pakistan -- RT
My Comment: Stats do not lie .... and in this case it is clear that the drone fleet played a crucial role in providing surveillance intelligence to NATO for airstrikes as well as firing missiles at Gaddafi's forces when needed.
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