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Africa Horn
US terror drones kill 13 in south Somalia
2011-11-18
[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...
Somebody appears to have taken on Iran, unless they really did drop that experimentall missile.
The US military has also used drones in Afghanistan, Pakistain, Libya, Iraq, and Yemen.

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

#7  Duckybunnypuppykittenmasher(tm)
Posted by: M. Murcek   2011-11-18 15:00  

#6  How about The Atomizer?
Posted by: gorb   2011-11-18 13:53  

#5  Or The Liquifier.
Posted by: Grunter   2011-11-18 12:59  

#4  Wait until the Ogre comes on-line.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2011-11-18 12:53  

#3  Rapid Offensive Unit

Rapid Offensive Units (ROUs) consist of little more than engines, weapons and the ship's Mind. While some ROUs are crewed, the crew complement on such vessels is much smaller than those of the more general purpose ships of the Culture, such as General Contact Units and General Systems Vehicles. ROUs and their demilitarised versions, Very Fast Pickets, are the Culture's fastest ships and have so far been described as having been outrun only once, by a GSV that self-optimised for speed (in the novel Excession). Immediately after the Idiran War, ROUs of the period could also be outrun by the small number (described as a limited edition by the Drone Skaffen-Amtiskaw) of Continent Class, subtype Prompt GSV. Subsequent developments have of course rendered this state of affairs obsolete, though the events involving the Excession give the lie to this assumption.

Known classes are:

Killer Class (200 meters long)[10]
Torturer Class
Psychopath Class
Gangster Class
Thug Class
Inquisitor Class (prototype)
Link
Posted by: mojo   2011-11-18 11:55  

#2  The Predator
The Hunter
The Reaper
The Liquidator

Indeed, a cool name.
Posted by: Steve White   2011-11-18 11:06  

#1  liquidation drones Cool Name!
Posted by: Water Modem   2011-11-18 10:33  

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