Posts Tagged ‘UAVs’
U.S. Senator McCain Says America will Continue to Bomb Pakistan
Xinhua | By Zeeshan Niazi | 8 January 2010 U.S. to continue drone attacks despite Pakistan's disagreement: senator ISLAMABAD, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) -- The United States will continue the "effective" drone attacks in northwest Pakistan's tribal region near the Afghan border even if it has no agreement with Pakistan, a U.S. senator said here Friday. [...]
Is CIA’s Private Army, Blackwater/Xe, Still on Contract?
The Nation | By Jeremy Scahill | 6 January 2010 Blackwater and the Khost Bombing: Is the CIA Deceiving Congress? “At this time, Blackwater is not involved in any CIA operations other than in a security or support role.” — CIA spokesman George Little, 11 December 2010. A leading member of the House Permanent Select Committee on [...]
Jordan’s Muslim Brotherhood Criticises Government for Being on the Wrong Side in Iraq and Now Afghanistan
BBC Monitoring (via COMTEX) | 6 January 2010 Jordan Muslim Brotherhood figure asks government to clarify role in Afghanistan Zaki Bani-Irshayd, Muslim Brotherhood Shura Council member and former secretary general of the Islamic Action Front Party has expressed surprise at the presence of Jordanian forces in Afghanistan. In a statement [...]
44 U.S. drone hits in Pakistan killed 700 civilians in 2009
The Peninsula | 2 January 2009 PESHAWAR: Of the 44 Predator strikes carried out by the American drones in the tribal areas of Pakistan in 12 months of 2009, only five were able to hit their actual targets, killing five key Al Qaeda and Taliban leaders, but at the cost of around 700 innocent civilian lives. According to the figures [...]
Is Northrop Grumman Working on a NextGen Bomber (NGB)?
Aviation Week | By Bill Sweetman | 22 December 2009 Classified Bomber Under Consideration The $2-billion question in development of a new bomber is whether a major black-world demonstration program is already underway, with Northrop Grumman as the contractor. This hypothesis makes sense of a series of clues that have appeared since 2005. In [...]
NextGen “Beast of Kandahar”: New Long-Range ISR/Strike Aircraft Planned for 2011
Aviation Week | By David A. Fulghum | 21 December 2009 New ISR Project Planned For 2011 New clues are emerging about a follow-on to the now-discarded Next-Generation Bomber. Among them is the revelation that it will be as much about intelligence-gathering as bombing and that many of its weapons will produce effects other than [...]
Security Hole: Real-Time Feeds from All Military Aircraft Can be Intercepted Easily
Danger Room | By Noah Schachtman | 17 December 2009 Not Just Drones: Militants Can Snoop on Most U.S. Warplanes (Updated) Tapping into drones’ video feeds was just the start. The U.S. military’s primary system for bringing overhead surveillance down to soldiers and Marines on the ground is also vulnerable to electronic interception, [...]
Taleban Infiltrator Wearing Afghan Army Uniform Kills CIA Agents at Khost Airfield
BBC | 31 December 2009 CIA chief confirms seven officers killed by Afghan bomb Seven CIA agents were killed in a bomb attack in Afghanistan, the US agency's director, Leon Panetta, has confirmed. The dead include a mother of three who was the head of the CIA's base in Khost Province, near Pakistan, the Associated Press news agency [...]
UAE Military Gears Up to Provide Greater Logistic Support to US/NATO “Af/Pak” War
Aviation Week | By Robert Wall | 22 December 2009 UAE C-17 Deal Advances LONDON — The United Arab Emirates plan to procure four Boeing C-17 airlifters has taken another step forward with the formal foreign military sale (FMS) notification now submitted to Congress for parts of the transaction. The FMS deal would cover the logistics element [...]
Iraqi Resistance Regularly Intercepts Video Feeds from U.S. Drones
On 17 December 2009, the Wall Street Journal reported that the Iraqi resistance ("insurgents") had been intercepting video feeds from U.S. drones, by using cheap software like the Russian program, SkyGrabber, "to regularly capture drone video feeds" being beamed down to field commanders. (more...)
