20 February 2009

Current Events: Pakistan's Predator Drone Base


We resisted posting this as the leaked information from Senator Diane Feinstein and the subsequent Google Earth photos were not confirmed by US Government sources, but now...

The United States has been using a base in Pakistan to station unmanned Predator drones that have been used to attack terrorist targets inside the country's tribal areas, a senior U.S. official told FOX News Thursday.

The confirmation contradicts a stream of previous denials from officials and comes after the Times of London published a Google Earth image apparently showing three U.S. drones at the Shamsi airbase in Pakistan's southwestern province of Baluchistan as early as 2006.
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