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From daily The Morning Star in London:
Exhibition shows true face of CIA drone strikes
Tuesday 19 July 2011
An exhibition revealing the human toll of drone attacks opened in London today on the same day a new investigation exposed US lies on civilian deaths.
The Obama administration has insisted that US drone strikes are “exceptionally surgically precise” and “do not put innocent men, women and children at risk.”
But a detailed examination of 116 CIA drone strikes in Pakistan since August 2010 has found at least 10 attacks in which a total of 45 or more civilians appear to have been killed.
British-based legal action charity Reprieve and human rights lawyer Shahzad Akbar are seeking an international arrest warrant for former CIA legal adviser John Rizzo over his sanctioning of drone attacks in Pakistan.
The Gaming in Waziristan exhibition, displaying harrowing photos of drone victims, runs at the Beaconsfield, London SE11, from 11am-5pm, Tuesday-Friday until August 5.
See also here.
The money spent on war should be used to help famine victims, writes Ramzy Baroud: here.
Deepening divisions between the CIA and US State dept on drone warfare in Pakistan: here.
Washington’s covert drone war on Pakistan’s tribal areas has killed up to 775 civilians since 2004, according to a new study by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism: here.
52 attacks by drones under George Bush – complete reports and summaries for each one: here.
Drone War Exposed – the complete picture of CIA strikes in Pakistan: here.
Strikes continuing to the present day – 2011 in CIA drone attacks: here.
The civilian victims of the CIA’s drone war: here.
Pakistani military want veto on drone strikes: here.
US Sees Rise in Demand for Unmanned Drones: here.
UK: Peace campaigners vowed today to oppose RAF plans to operate deadly unmanned Reaper drones from a Lincolnshire airbase: here.
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“Issues with Pakistan” prompt CIA chief’s exit
By Farhan Bokhari
July 31, 2011 10:07 AM
ISLAMABAD – Pakistan and the United States are seeking “to quickly repair the damage to their intelligence cooperation” following the unexpected departure of the Central Intelligence Agency’s station chief in the Pakistani capital, a senior Pakistani government official told CBS News Sunday following reports that the station chief had left the country unexpectedly.
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Neither Pakistani or U.S. officials would publicly confirm the departure of the Islamabad station chief, who works undercover and is widely known to be the U.S. government’s main liaison with Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence counter-espionage agency.
Asked by CBS News on Sunday to discuss the reported departure, a U.S. Embassy spokesman in Islamabad said, “The U.S. government doesn’t comment on intelligence matters.”
However, the Pakistani government official who spoke to CBS News on condition of anonymity, confirmed the departure of the CIA’s station chief. Without elaborating on the events that caused this unexpected development, the official said, “There were issues both internal to America’s working in Pakistan and issues with Pakistan” which prompted the departure.
The departure marks yet another possible sign of a crucial but troubled relationship remaining under pressure since the U.S. strike May 2 that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan’s northern city of Abbottabad.
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Pakistan’s influential army and the country’s civilian leaders reacted angrily to the decision by President Obama’s administration to withhold information of the attack from Pakistani authorities beforehand out of fears that the information will get leaked to Islamic militant groups sympathetic to al Qaeda and the Taliban.
In subsequent events, the Obama administration indicated its intent to withhold up to $800 million from its military assistance to Pakistan. This followed Pakistan’s decision to order up to 120 U.S. military trainers posted to the country to leave. Additionally, Pakistan has also delayed requests from U.S. government officials seeking visas to enter the country.
A European ambassador speaking to CBS News on condition of anonymity said the CIA station chief’s departure from Islamabad “deeply suggests that the U.S.-Pakistan relationship continues to be surrounded with tension.
“Unless the U.S. and Pakistan quickly work out their differences, we will have to live with some pretty severe consequences,” the European ambassador said.
Western officials privately complain about suspected sympathizers of Islamic militants employed by Pakistan’s army, intelligence services and other branches of the government working to undermine U.S.-led efforts to defeat al Qaeda and the Taliban in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region, known in diplomatic-speak as AfPak. But they also acknowledge Pakistan’s crucial role in the medium to long term in defeating these groups.
A second western diplomat who also spoke on condition of anonymity to CBS News said, “There is a great deal of anxiety which we all share. Pakistan is part of the problem. But we have to acknowledge that Pakistan needs to become part of the final push to defeat Islamic militancy if we are to see peace in AfPak in the long term.”
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503543_162-20085999-503543.html
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CIA drone kills 4 in Waziristan
PAKISTAN: Four people were killed today when a US drone destroyed a car near the Afghan border in South Waziristan.
Pakistani intelligence officials said that those killed were “Pakistani militants” but were not from the region.
Two others were injured in the strike.
Washington’s unofficial drone strike programme in Pakistan has killed thousands since it began in 2004.
The US maintains that the vast majority are militants, while Pakistan’s Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said that “a few militants are killed, but the majority of victims are innocent citizens.”
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/news/content/view/full/107764
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Posted by: “Richard Frager” science@zzz.com
Wed Aug 17, 2011 1:35 pm (PDT)
Anti-Drone Activists Convicted for Nevada Protest
In Nevada, 14 antiwar activists have been found guilty of trespassing for a 2009 protest against U.S. military drone attacks deployed from the Creech Air Force Base. The base is one of several homes for the American military’s aerial drone program in Pakistan and Afghanistan. The activists were charged with criminal trespassing for entering the base with a letter describing their opposition to the drone program. All 14 were sentenced to time already served. In a statement, the “Creech 14” vowed to continue opposing the drones through nonviolent protest.
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