A new round of statistics released by the British Defense Ministry is showing that the nation is, much like the US, increasingly relying on drone strikes in its overseas wars, with more than 280 missiles fired at “suspects” since 2008, with the number increasing every year.
The Defense Ministry’s stats claim that “only four Afghan civilians” have been killed in the campaign, but the reality is the British military, again like its US counterparts, have no real clue who most of the people they kill are.
Human Rights Watch was the first to call the British government on this claim, noting that they have no system in place to check for civilian casualties, and that the system relies on the assumption that if British drones kill an innocent man, someone will show up and complain in person at the base.
Even if they do, there is no mechanism for the military to investigate these claims, so their official “only four civilians” claim rests entirely on the assumption that not only was every civilian casualty reported, but that whoever was at the gate of those bases actually brought the deaths to the attention of higher ups.
A study by the Brookings Institute estimated 90% of drone fatalities in Pakistan are civilian. A European study estimated 95% of drone strike victims were civilian because the US has no actionable intelligence on the ground in Pakistan or much of Afghanistan and so must rely on faulty guess work to choose targets.
.If Brutish regime is following the lead of the US, then we should know an old proverb from a foreign language which says: The yellow dog is the brother of jackal.
These murderous regimes, or as they call themselves democracy, using such weapon because is cheap, they don't need to send in their military man and women to kill innocent people, is to messy and press might find out about it, like the Weakyleaks and US war crime in Iraq and above all shooting people from a distance can be a game played by psychopaths doing his job, having fun thinking, one day I start my own company and hire more of me to kill these people who look different.
What happened to Iraq inquiry, where is that Tony Blair, how is he doing, is he and Bill Clinton still in charge of Palestinians money, are they still in charge of Kosovo Liberation army cooperating with Balkan Mafia Hashim Taci….?
Not only do they not know who they kill…but they don't give a d…! Collateral damage covers all bases for a president, ironically, himself a Constitutional scholar and lecturer and who routinely vioilates both international and national laws. We cannot be victorious in what is termed the "war on terror" when we act like terrorists killing any who get in our way and thereby create new terrorists each and every day. Our demonstrated lack of concern for the lives of innocent civilians is a disgrace and in serial breach of international law and convention to which we are signatory.
The mass murderer in chief, like mass murderers bush/cheney, are the biggest terrorists !
Drugs in the slums — Prevent riots in the slums
There were no drugs in Afghanistan when the nation was ruled by the Taliban government, but now it is the number one grower of heroin worldwide, thanks almost entirely to England USA which is about the largest consumer of heroin worldwide. For the impoverished laboring class in our Empire is kept in open air prisons called slums and without drugs to kill the emotional drive to be free, riots would bring the government down in short order.
So, to keep the Afghan people so morally destroyed that they keep heroin production exceedingly high, our War on Terrorism is a smokescreen to hide our intent to kill civilians, slaughter civilians and bomb into body parts babies, even little babies.
And so, 280 drone missiles fired at Taliban homes which contain a dozen civilians each, this would waste over 10,000 civilians. Leastwise this is what the British hope went down.