US Deploys Predator Drones in Libya

[tangent4ronpaul]

http://www.voanews.com/english/news/Clinton-Libyan-Forces-May-Have-Used-Cluster-Bombs--120375484.html

The Pentagon says the United States is now authorized to use armed Predator drones in Libya as yet another means to end the conflict there. Earlier Thursday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her Dutch counterpart, Uri Rosenthal, met at the State Department to discuss other ways to bring the violence to an end.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates told reporters at the Pentagon Thursday that President Barack Obama has authorized the use of Predator drones in Libya.

"And I think that today may in fact have been their first mission, so I think that will give us some precision capability," said Secretary Gates.

Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General James Cartwright explained the benefits of unmanned, armed drones.

"...their ability to get down lower, therefore to able to get better visibility on particularly targets now that have started to dig themselves in to defensive positions," said General Cartwright. "They're uniquely suited for urban areas where you can get low collateral damage, and so we're trying to manage that collateral damage, obviously, but that's the best platform to do that with."

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SkyNet is alive and well! Coming to a neighborhood near you SOON!

[Bruno]

Worthy of another Nobel Peace Prize for Obama.

[Indy Vidual]

This is their plan to end the conflict?

[doodle]

This means gropings could become far more intrusive as part of enhanced security to cope with any potential blowback threats.

[acptulsa]

Deploying Predator drones to bring the violence to an end. Because, of course, the U.S. military isn't violent. Just defensive (against people in their own foreign land).

[eduardo89]

They've had the drones for a while now, in addition to surveillance drones they've loaned a few Predators to NATO. Don't know if they've already been used though.

[Indy Vidual]

This means gropings could become far more intrusive as part of enhanced security to cope with any potential blowback threats.


Deploying Predator drones to bring the violence to an end. Because, of course, the U.S. military isn't violent. Just defensive (against people in their own foreign land).


They've had the drones for a while now, in addition to surveillance drones they've loaned a few Predators to NATO. Don't know if they've already been used though.

+1984
Change you really can believe in.
Where is the bright side?

[ExPatPaki]

Pakistanizing the Libyan War (http://counterpunch.com/spinney04222011.html)

[sailingaway]

:mad:

*speechless....for now*

[fisharmor]

Yet more empirical evidence for the old axiom:
When your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.

[Dr.3D]

US Deploys Predator Drones in Libya

Seems like a more appropriate title would have been, "Obama Deploys Predator Drones in Libya."

I doubt congress was consulted.