CIA Gets New Africa Drone Base for Expanded Strikes

[DonViejo]

Source: The Daily Beast



A secretive CIA drone-strike program that was curtailed by President Obama is now expanding again under President Trump. The New York Times reports of a growing CIA-operated drone base in Dirkou, Niger, which it says is to be used for operations against militants in nearby southern Libya, an area known as a hotbed of extremist groups. The U.S. policy that sought to limit the ability of the CIA to conduct drone operations, including lethal strikes, was changed last year, the Times says, after lobbying by now-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who was the CIA director at the time.

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[HopeAgain]

1. So many weddings to bomb

so few drones.

[maxsolomon]

2. Boko Haram is real. Al Queda in the Mahgreb is real.

They are destroying/have destroyed the agrarian culture across the Sahel. They have kidnapped girls and forced them to become suicide bombers.

If drones are off the table, what is your solution?

[Cold War Spook]

3. I would feel better about it

if it was the military having control, not the CIA. Better, not good.

[HopeAgain]

4. More American responsibility

"Collateral damage" by Americans is one of the best recruiting tools those groups have.

[john657]

5. While I agree with you on responsibility,

there is always going to be collateral damage, I saw it too often with my own 2 eyes, but, at least we try to limit the damage, unlike, say, Russia, Saudi Arabia, etc.

These are very dangerous times we live in.

[maxsolomon]

6. So, Drone better?

I haven't heard about too many fuckups coming out of the Sahel. Have you?

[dembotoz]

7. drone base while china buys the local economy

this is not gonna work long term is it