Drones hover over us all 03.01.2012

Source: The Times. 03.01.2012.




Ben MacKintyre reports that the drone arms race is well under way. In "Look up-there's a drone watching over you" he tells us that, according to the UN, over 40 countries have purchased the technology. Drone strikes are illegal, morally dubious, cowardly and cheap, involving no casualties.



In Gaza, the drones of the Israeli Defence Force are known as Zenana.



Deadly weapons with

dozy names bely their more

sinister purpose.