Posted by Jan on December 11, 2010 at 13:12:21:
In Reply to: Re: wikileak or book about assignation drones posted by Jun on December 09, 2010 at 19:23:14:
It is true. They are operated out of an Air Force base outside of Las Vegas in a darkened room that is set up like a video game-playing situation. There have been a few protests there, but not as many as you might expect. Here is more information about them:
http://www.nevadadesertexperience.org/issues/2010/UAVs.htm
: Is that true? Like a video game in Las Vegas killing people in Pakistan? That's really scary.
: : I've been waiting for the book or maybe a Wikileak about how the US has been using those killer drone airplanes to assassinate "suspects" in Pakistan. In the "old days" if American soldiers went into Pakistan and shot whole families in the head there would be an international outcry about it. But in this new age of technology America can do it using missiles fired from drone airplanes guided by some young solider sitting in a darkened room in front of a video screen in Las Vegas. How did this come to be? Who ordered it? Who oversees it? Doesn't that young soldier with his video game joystick feel like a murderer?
: : Maybe what goes on in that darkened room in Las Vegas is so secret that even Wikileaks will never find out about it.