1.005
Bearbeitungen
Killer-Drohne: Unterschied zwischen den Versionen
→Entwicklung und erste Einsätze unter George W. Bush (nach Cockburn)
Woozle (Diskussion | Beiträge) |
Woozle (Diskussion | Beiträge) |
||
| Zeile 12: | Zeile 12: | ||
=== Entwicklung und erste Einsätze unter George W. Bush (nach Cockburn)=== | === Entwicklung und erste Einsätze unter George W. Bush (nach Cockburn)=== | ||
Bei der Suche nach Bin Laden im Herbst 2000 zeigte ein von Usbekistan eingesetzter Aufklärungs-Predator Bilder einer weißgekleideten Person, in der man Bin Laden zu erkennen glaubte. Jetzt ging die Entwicklung schnell: Predator wurde mit einer Hellfire-Rakete ausgerüstet. Schon im Januar 2001 gab es erste Testflüge (70). Einige Monate später war man so weit, dass ein Pilot in Nevada einen tausende Meilen entfernten Predator fliegen und von ihm schießen konnte. | "Reportedly, in 2000, the U.S. was ready to employ drones for a dramatic new use: as a launch vehicle for missiles". Bei der Suche nach Bin Laden im Herbst 2000 zeigte ein von Usbekistan eingesetzter Aufklärungs-Predator Bilder einer weißgekleideten Person, in der man Bin Laden zu erkennen glaubte. Jetzt ging die Entwicklung schnell: eine Predator-Drohne wurde mit einer Hellfire-Rakete ausgerüstet. Schon im Januar 2001 gab es erste Testflüge (70). Einige Monate später war man so weit, dass ein Pilot in Nevada einen tausende Meilen entfernten Predator fliegen und von ihm schießen konnte. | ||
* Unmittelbar nach 09/11, am 21.09. 2001 legalisierte Präsident George W. Bush den gezielten Einsatz von Killerdrohnen (115): | * Unmittelbar nach 09/11, am 21.09. 2001 legalisierte Präsident George W. Bush den gezielten Einsatz von Killerdrohnen (115): | ||
"President George W. Bush signed a secret 'Memorandum of Notification" giving the CIA carte blanche to hunt down and kill high-value Targets in the al-Qaeda leadership. Bush also approved a list of about twi dozen people whom the CIA was authorized to kill or capture without further presidential Review and allowed the Addition of names to that list with no permission necessary. On the day he signed the document, Bush spoke with Reporters at the Pentaton saying: 'I want justice, and there's an old poster out West, as I recall, saying WANTED, DEAD OR ALIVE'. Reporting on the presidential 'kill list', the New York Times noted: ' Despite the authority given to the agancy, Mr. Bush has not waived the executive order banning assassinations, officials said. The presidential authority to kill terrorists defines operatives of Al Qaeda as enemy combatants and thus legitimate targets for lethal force" (115) | "President George W. Bush signed a secret 'Memorandum of Notification" giving the CIA carte blanche to hunt down and kill high-value Targets in the al-Qaeda leadership. Bush also approved a list of about twi dozen people whom the CIA was authorized to kill or capture without further presidential Review and allowed the Addition of names to that list with no permission necessary. On the day he signed the document, Bush spoke with Reporters at the Pentaton saying: 'I want justice, and there's an old poster out West, as I recall, saying WANTED, DEAD OR ALIVE'. Reporting on the presidential 'kill list', the New York Times noted: ' Despite the authority given to the agancy, Mr. Bush has not waived the executive order banning assassinations, officials said. The presidential authority to kill terrorists defines operatives of Al Qaeda as enemy combatants and thus legitimate targets for lethal force" (115) | ||
* in 2013 "things had come a very | * die erste Killer-Drohne wurde am 1. Oktober 2001 in Afghanistan eingesetzt; sie galt einem Toyoto Corolla, in dem man den Taliban-Führer Mullah Omar vermutete. Sie traf letztlich ein anderes Fahrzeug(118 ff). | ||
* November 2001: die erste Tötung eines "hochwertigen" Ziels, Mohammed Atef, Schwiegersohn von Osama Bin Laden, gemeinsam mit sieben weiteren Personen, in Jalalabad, Afghanistan (121) | |||
* am 3.11.2002: Drohnentötung von Salim Sinan al-Harithi, einem Al-Quaida-Führer im Jemen. "It was the first assassination by drone in acountry with which the United States was not at war (unlike the Afghan hits). In the more innocent days this was cause for shock to many People, including Asma Jahandir, the UN Special rapporteur on extrajudial, summary, or arbitrary executions, who thought the deelopment 'truly disturbing'"(234). Tatsächlich hat sie in ihrem Report vom 13.01.2003 als "clear case of extrajudicial killing" bezeichnet. | |||
* September 2011: "Hassprediger" Anwar al Awlaki "killed by a CIA drone" im Yemen (239) | |||
* "Over fifteen days in the summer of 2013 the United States hit Yemen with nine strikes, killing as many as forty-nine people, including up to seven civilians, three of whom were children" | |||
Clearly in 2013 "things had come a very long way since George Bush had begun crossing out names in the list he kept in his desk drawér. A well-funded bureacratic mechanism to service the 'Disposition matrix' as the kill list had been euphemistically relabeled, was centred at the national Counterterrorism Center, whose 500-strong staff was charged with, among other things, collating the various lists crafted by the CIA and JSOC and others. (As noted, the president liked to have the very last word. 'Turns out I'm really good at killing People,' he remarked the day Awlaki dies. "Didn't know that was gonna be a strong suit of mine'.)(241) | |||
=== Rechtfertigung unter Obama (nach Koh)=== | === Rechtfertigung unter Obama (nach Koh)=== | ||