The United States has been secretly flying armed Reaper drones on bombing missions from a remote civilian airport in southern Ethiopia as part of a rapidly expanding proxy war against in East Africa. The new base is one of a number of new drone bases the Obama administration has built throughout the region in order to wage war from the skies without having to go to Congress or the American people to ask them to commit to another ground war. The Reapers, equipped with Hellfire missiles and satellite-guided bombs, have been targeting the militant group al Shabaab in Somalia, and may have used the base for the mission that assassinated US-citizen Anwar al Awlaki in Yemen.
Read the whole story by Craig Whitlock at the Washington Post.
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Lovely. Next, we'll be reading the news that the latest drone bases in Oakland, CA and Wall Street, NY are also operational.
The USA spreading more death, destruction and hate around. A, vile country full of spineless citizens who are too dumbed down to get off their arses and stop this nonsense. One day it will all come back to bite you big time. There will come a time in the future when America needs the help of the rest of world and we will turn our backs on you and quite rightly so.
I miss the base we used to have in Asmara Eritrea. I had big hopes the Africa Command would have taken the place over again. It was an ASA listening post then. Now we specialize in death stations.