Sentences with phrase «targeted by a drone»

Later, Paul warned about the ambiguity over who could be targeted by drones, suggesting that they could have been used against Vietnam War protesters in the 1960s.

Not exact matches

The Tornados, supported by a Voyager tanker and a Reaper drone, dropped their Paveway IV guided bombs against six targets on an oilfield at Omar, «one of the ISIS's largest and most important oilfields,» according to the MoD.

Last week, classified intelligence reports obtained by McClatchy belied the administration's repeated assertions that drones rarely kill civilians, that they are only aimed at terrorists who pose an imminent threat to the U.S., and that they identify intended targets accurately.

Tell that to Osama bin Laden, the al Qaeda leadership taken out by drones, the three Somali pirates and countless other targets of covert operations.

The two major objections brought forward against the procurement of armed drones are that it (1) might make warfare «too easy» and thereby increase the likelihood of wars and (2) that these UAVs could be used for targeted killing campaigns as carried out by the CIA in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia.

To begin, the UN special rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights, Ben Emmerson, announced in late January the launch of an investigation into the «civilian impact» and «human rights implications» of drone attacks and other targeted killings by the U.S. and other states.

Interestingly though, this has not by definition led to a further distancing of the actor from the act: the drone pilot is simultaneously further removed, yet closer to his target than a previous generation of pilots.

The president has also been criticized — even by some liberals — for his use of drones to target terrorist suspects abroad, some of whom have been U.S. citizens.

Small drones that can automatically spot, identify and target vehicles and people are planned by the US military, although humans would still be overseeing them

Gurcan notes that while there are a number of advantages to using drones, such as effectiveness at removing key targets and avoidance of friendly casualties, they may also increase the power of extremists amongst civilian populations by creating a siege mentality.

Convinced by ambitious scientist Bolivar Trask (Peter Dinklage) that the solution to the problem is to green - light a line of mutant - targeting drones called Sentinels, Tricky Dick acts with predictably self - serving expediency — and inadvertently triggers a series of events that leads to a dystopian future in which humans and mutants alike teeter on the verge of extinction.

Release: Friday, April 1, 2016 [Theater] Written by: Guy Hibbert Directed by: Gavin Hood Eye in the Sky presents an intriguing, if not familiar moral conundrum as a British Army Colonel weighs the pros and cons of pulling the trigger on a drone missile strike that could eliminate top terrorist targets sheltered in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi.

Leaked emails between Italian spyware vendor Hacking Team and Boeing subsidiary Insitu revealed that drones carrying malware to infect targeted computers via Wi - Fi by flying over...

Leaked emails between Italian spyware vendor Hacking Team and Boeing subsidiary Insitu revealed that drones carrying malware to infect targeted computers via Wi - Fi by flying over their proximity is close to becoming a reality.

The first goal of Project Maven is to help the US defeat the terrorist group ISIS by identifying targets in drone footage that human eyes might have missed.