The CIA's Pakistan Drone Strikes Have Been Carried Out By US Air Force Personnel

CIA's Pakistan Drone Strikes Carried Out By Regular US Air Force Personnel -- The Guardian

Former drone operators claim in new documentary that CIA missions flown by USAF's 17th Reconnaissance Squadron

A regular US air force unit based in the Nevada desert is responsible for flying the CIA's drone strike programme in Pakistan, according to a new documentary to be released on Tuesday.

The film – which has been three years in the making – identifies the unit conducting CIA strikes in Pakistan's tribal areas as the 17th Reconnaissance Squadron, which operates from a secure compound in a corner of Creech air force base, 45 miles from Las Vegas in the Mojave desert.

Several former drone operators have claimed that the unit's conventional air force personnel – rather than civilian contractors – have been flying the CIA's heavily armed Predator missions in Pakistan, a 10-year campaign which according to some estimates has killed more than 2,400 people.

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