As the year draws to a close against a background of increasing drone strikes in Afghanistan and Pakistan – between 50 and 60 people were killed in a number of separate drone strikes in Pakistan’s Khyber region this week –… Read More ›
Archive for December 2010
Two More Britons Killed by US Drone Attack in Pakistan
The Daily Telegraph is reporting that two British citizens have been killed in a US drone attack in North Waziristan. The drone attack took place on Friday December 10th when local Pakistani media reported that US drones fired four Hellfire missiles… Read More ›
UK Drones Firing Thermobaric Weapons in Afghanistan?
The UK MOD has this week refused to answer a parliamentary question on whether UK drones in Afghanistan are firing thermobaric weapons. Oxford East MP Andrew Smith enquired whether any of the 84 ‘Hellfire AGM114′ missiles that Defence Secretary Dr Liam… Read More ›
UK Drones to Double as US Court Delivers “Dangerous” Drone Decision
During a visit to Afghanistan this week, David Cameron pledged to double the number of armed Reaper drones in service with British forces at a cost of £135m. While this seemed to be news to many, we reported that fact over… Read More ›
Wikileaks, Cablegate and Drones (the story so far….)
Although Wikileaks has only released a small amount of US diplomatic cables so far – the full release is expected later this week – there has already been some significant information about the use of armed drones. [Also see list of cables released… Read More ›
