U.S. assembling secret drone bases in Africa and Arabian Peninsula!
WASHINGTON (PNN) - September 20, 2011 - The illegitimate Obama regime is assembling a series of secret drone bases for counterterrorism operations in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula as part of a newly aggressive campaign to attack al-Qaeda affiliates in Somalia and Yemen, U.S. officials said.
One of the installations is being established in Ethi o pia, a U.S. ally in the fight against al-Shabab, the Somali militant group that controls much of that country. Another base is in the Seychelles, an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, where a small fleet of “hunter-killer” drones resumed operations this month after an experimental mission demonstrated that the unmanned aircraft could effectively patrol Somalia from there.
The U.S. military also has flown drones over Somali and Yemen from bases in Djibouti, a tiny African nation at the junction of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. In addition, the CIA is building a secret airstrip in the Arabian Peninsula so it can deploy armed drones over Yemen.
The rapid expansion of the undeclared drone wars is a reflection of the growing imperialism of the United States government, which is couched in alarm at what U.S. officials claim are activities of al-Qaeda affiliates in Yemen and Somalia.
The U.S. government is known to have used drones to carry out lethal attacks in at least six countries: Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen. The negotiations that preceded the establishment of the base in the Republic of Seychelles illustrate the efforts the United States is making to broaden the range of its drone weapons.
Nevertheless, the United Stastes continues to fail or refuse to provide one shred of empirical evidence that a real terrorist threat against the United States exists; that al-Qaeda is an actual terrorist group rather than a CIA-created database of suspected terrorists; and that the federal government needs to usurp ever greater amounts of power in order to combat this imaginary boogeyman.
