Glia
10-24-2011, 07:39 PM
America's Secret Empire of Drone Bases: Its Full
Extent Revealed for the First Time
By Nick Turse
AlterNet and TomDispatch
Posted October 16, 2011; Printed October 23, 2011
https://www.alternet.org/story/152756/
They increasingly dot the planet. There's a facility
outside Las Vegas where "pilots" work in climate-
controlled trailers, another at a dusty camp in Africa
formerly used by the French Foreign Legion, a third at a
big air base in Afghanistan where Air Force personnel
sit in front of multiple computer screens, and a fourth
that almost no one talks about at an air base in the
United Arab Emirates.
And that leaves at least 56 more such facilities to
mention in an expanding American empire of unmanned
drone bases being set up worldwide. Despite frequent
news reports on the drone assassination campaign
launched in support of America's ever-widening
undeclared wars and a spate of stories on drone bases in
Africa and the Middle East, most of these facilities
have remained unnoted, uncounted, and remarkably
anonymous -- until now. ...
[read the rest on Alternet using the link above]
Extent Revealed for the First Time
By Nick Turse
AlterNet and TomDispatch
Posted October 16, 2011; Printed October 23, 2011
https://www.alternet.org/story/152756/
They increasingly dot the planet. There's a facility
outside Las Vegas where "pilots" work in climate-
controlled trailers, another at a dusty camp in Africa
formerly used by the French Foreign Legion, a third at a
big air base in Afghanistan where Air Force personnel
sit in front of multiple computer screens, and a fourth
that almost no one talks about at an air base in the
United Arab Emirates.
And that leaves at least 56 more such facilities to
mention in an expanding American empire of unmanned
drone bases being set up worldwide. Despite frequent
news reports on the drone assassination campaign
launched in support of America's ever-widening
undeclared wars and a spate of stories on drone bases in
Africa and the Middle East, most of these facilities
have remained unnoted, uncounted, and remarkably
anonymous -- until now. ...
[read the rest on Alternet using the link above]