MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Ministers refuse to reveal target of new RAF killer drone missions
By artappraiser on Sat, 06/06/2020 - 2:16pm |By Jamie Doward @ The Observer @ TheGuardian.com, June 6
Britain is running secret missions involving drones previously used to target and kill terrorist suspects in Iraq and Syria.
The Ministry of Defence is refusing to reveal the nature or location of the operation involving RAF Reapers, which can be armed with Hellfire missiles, leading to calls for greater parliamentary oversight of Britain’s drone programme.
Following a freedom of information request, the MoD confirmed that Reaper drones are flying missions outside Operation Shader, which targets Isis in Iraq and Syria. Since Afghanistan, there has only been one RAF Reaper mission of this type – the killing of the Isis recruiter Reyaad Khan in Syria in 2015. There were questions about the legality and proportionality of his killing [....]
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/06/ministers-refuse-to-reveal-target-of-new-raf-killer-drone-missions
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