US Expanding Use of Deadlier Drone Attacks
by John Glaser,
October 15, 2011
The Obama administration has expanded the drone war, with active unmanned Predator and Reaper vehicles armed with a 108-pound precision-strike missiles known as Hellfire II wreaking blood and carnage in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and elsewhere. The record of “precision,” though, has not been stellar, with civilians casualties and collateral damage common with each strike. But they’re about to get even more deadly. A new missile from Lockheed Martin is being fielded for these vehicles, designated the AGM-114R, or Hellfire Romeo. It is tipped with a “multi-purpose” warhead behind its domed nose, designed to knock out “hard, soft and enclosed targets” with a single Hellfire missile load
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John Ellis
October 16th, 2011 at 6:05 am
Unmanned drones, the most perfect tool for population control known to man, the ability to kill off leaders and potential future leaders — turning the people into a docile easy to manage mass of humanity.
JLS
October 16th, 2011 at 7:26 am
I know these are stupid questions but….how long is this going to go on? Who exactly are we killing over there? Has anybody BESIDES the CIA confirmed that they are actually terrorists or some form of combatant against the US? Is the plan to simply kill anyone who might harbor bad intentions aginast us?
geral
October 17th, 2011 at 5:11 am
http://www.sosbeevfbi.com/part4-worldinabo.html
http://barbarahartwellvscia.blogspot.com/2008/09/…
A nation and its people who deliberately engage in the systematic conquest, subjugation, torture, imprisonment and killing of others must by the laws of physics and divine nature have the same calamities delivered upon themselves.