Tuesday, 2. June 2009
Topic: War and Peace News - on June 2, 2009 at 10:45:00 AM CEST
Spy Chips Guiding CIA Drone Strikes, Locals Say
It sounds like a tinfoil hat nightmare, come to life: tiny electronic homing beacons, guiding CIA killer drones to their targets. But local residents and Taliban militants in Pakistan’s tribal wildlands say that’s exactly what’s happening. Tribesman in Waziristan are being paid to “plant the electronic devices” near militant safehouses, they tell the Guardian. “Hours or days later, a drone, guided by the signal from the chip, destroys the building with a salvo of missiles.”
