Australian special forces fighting in Afghanistan have confirmed that they are using US drones to target and assassinate suspects in the nation’s south, with some wondering about the morality of robotic killings and one saying that such tactics were a “small price to pay” for the convenience.
Read more on Australia’s introduction to the drone at SMH.
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This is new weapon for killings.
There is no human values left and the christians are bloody killers in the history.
If the US Empire had an ability to read your mind or sense the electric impulses you feel as emotions, and could tell if you had anti-US convictions, giving it the ability to kill off all those who walked in the light and had any love for the truth, would they use it in the here and now?
So, it is only a matter of time, for unless we the people deny the rich control over government, the ultimate conclusion has to be absolute control over people.
Lovely. The madness is spreading. I wonder if the Aussies are going to be using a US-issued drone to whack Assange.
The first US soldier to die in Afghanistan in September was killed by small arms fire in Kandahar on Saturday. This continues a string of seven soldiers killed in the last week in August in Kandahar in a series of small arms and IED attacks. Seventy US soldiers died in Afghanistan in August. Twenty five of those deaths were in Kandahar and Helmand province where success of the surge was to be measured. Now that the hard figures on this surge are realized the media is silent.