In our studies of drone crashes, we found multiple instances where the armed drone was being flown by personnel, sub-contracted to the US military, to carry out the warfare. This was logical, given the large volume of sub-contractors used in recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now comes journalism investigation into how widespread the military use of drones is really by sub-contractors, and not US armed forces, nor NATO allies, nor CIA personnel, nor equivalent personnel of the intelligence agencies of our allies. This may be a violation of US government policies, easily changed to retroactively permit this stuff. It might not violate UK rules, but implementation may be contributing to excessive crashes. http://www.nouse.co.uk/2013/03/05/contractors-fly-drones-for-us-and-uk-milit ary/ Britain supposedly has just as many drone strikes in Afghanistan as the USA, so maybe a UK drone did the mysterious Pakistan Feb 6+8 strikes? http://afpak.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/03/05/us_officials_deny_two_strike s_were_work_of_drones Al Mac = Alister William Macintyre 2013 Feb I become temporarily famous: http://cryptome.org/2013/02/drone-nations.htm -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at companys@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/drone-list ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE