Luke Rudkowski, uruknet.info, September 15, 2012
An
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle takes flight on a targeted mission from Shamsi
Airfield, an airstrip subleased to the United States by the UAE from
inside the southwest region of Pakistan. At the same time a farmer
awakes, in northwest Pakistan, happy; a husband and father of four with
his youngest daughter just married the day before. After reaching a
service ceiling of 25,000 ft. and cruising speed of 103 mph the General
Atomics MQ-1 Predator begins descending to its destination. Hamid
Abdullah, a refugee I met during my travels to the northwest border
region, was a hardworking man, kind, loving and very caring of his
family, finds his pantry empty and leaves for the market to collect
groceries. The Predator drone now in range locks on the target. Upon
reaching the Bazaar, Abdullah, from behind him he hears a thundering
explosion. After firing an AGM-114 Hellfire missile the drone begins to
circumnavigate. As a concerned human, the Pakistani man, naturally
inclined, runs to see what happened and to perhaps provide aid to anyone
hurt. He approaches, and with crushing and crippling realization, his
entire home in total destruction. The world of happiness, his family,
lay dead in the rubble, wrenching vibrations send him to his knees. An
hour later the UAV locks in the second Hellfire missile as the operator
from Creech Air force Base in Nevada reaches to quench his thirst from a
freshly refilled ice tea. In the tribal region of Pakistan first
responders, neighbors, other civilians and business owners run with
haste to pull out the dead and injured. As temporary funeral
preparations are made a $68,000 guided weapons system developed by
Lockheed Martin strikes the same location inciting terror on a new
level, killing the entire procession of emergency services, tripling the
original death toll of, not just innocent civilians, but honorable
servicemen duty bound by the code of humanity.
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