Report: USA Building Predator Drone Bases On Horn Of Africa

• Report: US building secret drone bases in Africa
• African neighbors, and rivals, eye nuclear power

We have already seen what American/NATO air power on the African continent can do as 17,000 bombing sorties were run over the soverign nation of Libya.  

The United States appears to be doubling down as it builds additional landing sites for Predator Drones so that the US military can expand its fearch into other parts of the continent. 

What has been opposed in America under the cover of 'The War On Terrorism' appears to go unchallenged on the continent of Africa.  What previously was rendered as "CIA conspiracy theories" and "hitman confession" books is now done fairly openly.

What, do you imagine, is the source of the present silence by the "usual suspects"?


From The Article

The United States is assembling a series of secret drone bases in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula to launch an aggressive campaign against al-Qaida-linked groups in Somalia and Yemen, the Washingon Post reported Tuesday night.

The Post said the new bases are in Ethiopia, the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean and on the Arabian Peninsula. The military has also flown drones out of Djibouti, at the conjunction of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.
In addition to using armed drones in Yemen and Somalia, the U.S. government has used them in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq.
Libya is the most recent country where the U.S. has used drones. Unarmed Predator drones flew surveillance missions to support the NATO mission against Moammar Gadhafi, officials have said.