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US terror drones kill 13 in south Somalia
 [Iran Press TV] At least 13 people have been killed after US liquidation drones launched aerial attacks in southern Somalia near the border with Kenya, Press TV reported.Somali tribal elders, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told Press TV that the remote-controlled aerial vehicles fired several missiles at Buzar village, which is located close to El Wak city in Somalia's southwestern region of Gedo, on Thursday. They added that dozens of people were also injured in the strikes. The aerial attacks came as US liquidation drones had struck Buzar village a day earlier. At least 26 people were killed and dozens more were also maimed in Wednesday's drone attacks. Somalia is the sixth country where the United States has used liquidation drones to launch deadly missile strikes. Now taking requests for country number seven...
On October 28, the United States admitted to flying the terror aircraft from a base in Ethiopia. Not necessarily the ones that whacked Somalia, mind you. Those might be coming from elsewhere... "The US has unarmed and unmanned aircraft at a facility there (Ethiopia) to be used only for surveillance as part of a broad, sustained integrated campaign to counter terrorism," said Pentagon front man Captain John Kirby. The confirmation appeared a day after The Washington Post revealed in a report that the US flies "armed" drones from an airfield in Ethiopia's southern city of Arba Minch. Posted by: Fred 2011-11-18 |
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