US personnel ‘targeting killer drones from Britain’
Campaigners say the UK is complicit in activities
that may be in breach of international law
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A US MQ-9 Reaper Drone in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
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A US MQ-9 Reaper Drone in Kandahar,
Afghanistan. Photograph: Cloys/Planet Pi/REX/Shutterstock
<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/29/https://www.theguardian.com/profile/jamiedoward>Jamie
Doward Sunday 30 October 2016 00.38 BST
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<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/29/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-military>US
military personnel serving at the UK’s RAF bases
are helping to identify targets for drone
strikes, according to their job specifications.
Human rights groups have seized on the
descriptions of the roles as proof of the UK’s
part in the covert US drone programme, which some
critics claim is in breach of international law.
One job advertised at RAF Molesworth in
Cambridgeshire was for an “all source analyst”,
in support of US operations in Africa. The
suitable candidate will “perform a variety of
advanced targeting operations ... in support of
employment of GPS guided weapons, weaponeering
and collateral estimation, as well as utilizing
the tools required for advanced targeting”.
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The CV of a US military analyst, uploaded to a
recruitment site, states that he was an MQ-9
Reaper ISR Mission Intelligence Coordinator at
Molesworth. The MQ-9 is the US’s chief strike
drone, capable of firing Hellfire missiles and
dropping laser-guided GBU 12 Paveway II bombs.
Molesworth has also been recruiting “full motion
video analysts” to study footage taken by drones
and other surveillance craft in order to identify
potential targets. The consultancy giant Booz
Allen Hamilton is advertising for a “maritime
multi-level targeting analyst” at the same base.
The job involves providing “comprehensive
assessments... of intelligence data” to “support
the client targeting cycle in order to answer
intelligence questions and provide
recommendations for further action or collection”.
The Ministry of Defence insists that the US does
not operate drones from the UK. A senior MoD
source said: “Despite the continuing conspiracy
theories and associated hype in the media, the
reality is that there are no US Remotely Piloted
Air System support facilities operating anywhere in the UK.”
But the human rights group
<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/29/http://www.reprieve.org.uk/>Reprieve
said that the job specifications indicated UK
complicity in the US drone programme. “Simply to
say that drones are not flown from the UK is
missing the point, if it is personnel on British
soil that are at the top of the so-called ‘kill
chain’ and British agencies who are feeding
targets into those lists,” said Jennifer Gibson,
staff attorney at Reprieve. “The British
government has questions to answer over its own
involvement in this secret war.”
The US air force last year reportedly floated the
idea of establishing a drone operations centre at
RAF Lakenheath, subject to British approval. The
move would prove controversial. The US recently
gave the German government an assurance that
“kill” commands for drones were no longer being
sent via its Ramstein base amid mounting
controversy over the legality of the programme.
Staff from RAF Molesworth will be absorbed into
RAF Croughton, near Milton Keynes, chosen as the
site for a new $300m US intelligence-gathering
hub known as the Joint Analysis Centre that is
expected to play an important role in future US
drone operations focused on Africa and the Middle East.
Plans filed with the local council reveal that
the four-year renovation project at the base, due
to start next year, will see the construction of
seven new buildings and the renovation of several existing ones.
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A radar dome at RAF Croughton.
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Boasting a fitness centre, shop, accommodation
block, post office, nursery and school, hundreds
of personnel will live on-site, while others will be housed nearby.
Around a third of all US military communications
in Europe already pass through Croughton, which
has a direct cable link to GCHQ, the intelligence
services’ giant listening hub at Cheltenham. A
high-speed fibre-optic line connects the base to
Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti, from where the US
flies drones that target terrorist groups in Somalia.
Paul Mobbs, a close
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of Croughton, who contributes to the Free Range
Activism website, said: “Croughton is becoming a
hub which will receive content from across Europe
and North Africa and near Middle East, and then
slice and dice it for use by intelligence
agencies. At the same time its communications
capacity is being enhanced to tie in to other intelligence centres.”
Chris Cole, editor of the website
<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/29/https://dronewars.net/>Drone
Wars, believes the US military’s need to process
massive amounts of data, sucked up by its rapidly
expanding surveillance programme, lies behind
Croughton’s transformation. “You need a huge
amount of bandwidth,” Cole said. “They distribute
it around so it’s not a case of huge amounts all
going to one place. And it’s secure – it can’t be knocked out in one place.”
Critics say the US drone programme is taking
place on British soil without sufficient
oversight. “There is no oversight, no
accountability,” said Lindis Percy, co-ordinator
of the Campaign for the Accountability of American Airbases.
“The United States Visiting Force is present in
the UK at the invitation of the British
government,” an MoD spokesman explained. “There
are no circumstances under which UK military
assets, including those bases made available to
the US, could be used operationally by the US
without the agreement of Her Majesty’s government.”
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participation in Bormann companies that when
Adolf Eichmann was seized and taken to Tel Aviv
to stand trial, it produced a shock wave in the
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Jewish leaders informed the Israeli authorities
in no uncertain terms that this must never happen
again because a repetition would permanently
rupture relations with the Germans of Latin
America, as well as with the Bormann
organization, and cut off the flow of Jewish
money to Israel. It never happened again, and the
pursuit of Bormann quieted down at the request of
these Jewish leaders. He is residing in an
Argentinian safe haven, protected by the most
efficient German infrastructure in history as
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