U.S. Air Force Stops Reporting Data on Afghanistan Drone Strikes
Source: Reuters
U.S. Air Force stops reporting data on Afghanistan drone strikes
Sun Mar 10, 2013 5:17am EDT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With debate intensifying in the United States over the use of drone aircraft, the U.S. military said on Sunday that it had removed data about air strikes carried out by unmanned planes in Afghanistan from its monthly air power summaries.
U.S. Central Command, which oversees the Afghanistan war, said in a statement the data had been removed because it was "disproportionately focused" on the use of weapons by the remotely piloted aircraft as it was published only when strikes were carried out - which happened during only 3 percent of sorties. Most missions were for reconnaissance, it said.
The debate over the use of drones in Afghanistan and elsewhere was triggered in part by U.S. President Barack Obama's decision to nominate his chief counter-terrorism adviser John Brennan, an architect of the drone campaign, as the new director of the CIA.
The Air Force Times said air force chiefs had started posting the drone data last October in an attempt to provide more detail on the use of drones in Afghanistan.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE92903520130310
newfie11
(8,159 posts)On "your" behalf. I feel so much safer now that we have alienated countries and killed thousand of innocents with a set up war for oil!
quaker bill
(8,224 posts)since day 1 regardless of the means used. When you don't hear how many are killed with rifles and sidearms, tanks, and piloted aircraft, you could start to think that drones are doing all the killing. They surely aren't.
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