Source: AlterNet.orgNick Turse
A ground-breaking investigation examines the most secret aspect of
America's shadowy drone wars and maps out a world of hidden bases
dotting the globe.
They increasingly dot the planet. There’s a facility outside Las Vegas where “pilots” work in climate-controlled trailers, another at a dusty camp in
Africa formerly used by the French Foreign Legion, a third at a big air
base in Afghanistan where Air Force personnel sit in front of multiple
computer screens, and a fourth that almost no one talks about at an air
base in the United Arab Emirates.
And that leaves at least 56
more such facilities to mention in an expanding American empire of
unmanned drone bases being set up worldwide. Despite
frequent news reports on the drone assassination campaign launched in
support of America’s ever-widening undeclared wars and a spate of
stories on drone bases in Africa and the Middle East, most of these
facilities have remained unnoted, uncounted, and remarkably anonymous --
until now.
