US drone crashes in E Afghanistan

December 21st, 2013

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

A US unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has crashed in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Nangarhar with Taliban claiming responsibility for the incident.

The Western military alliance confirmed the crash in a statement on Friday, but it did not provide any details about the cause of the incident.

Shortly after the incident, Taliban militants arrived at the site and took away the crashed aircraft with them. The militants have claimed that they shot down the unmanned aircraft.

US forces have also been deployed to the area to search for the drone.

The Taliban militants have increased violence against US-led forces in Afghanistan, targeting NATO helicopters and drones.

They claim their militants have shot down several aircraft and NATO choppers in different parts of Afghanistan over the past few months.

The United States regularly uses drones for attacks and spying missions in Afghanistan, as well as in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal belt near the Afghan border, among other places.

Washington claims that the airstrikes target militants, but local sources say civilians have been the main victims of the attacks.

Over the past several years, Washington has been launching drone attacks on Muslim countries, including Pakistan, Somalia, and Yemen.

The aerial attacks, initiated by former US president, George W. Bush, have been escalated under US President Barack Obama’s administration. President Obama recently defended the use of the controversial drones as “self-defense.”

The United Nations says the US-operated drone strikes in Pakistan and some other countries pose a growing challenge to the rule of international law. The UN and several human rights organizations have identified the US as the world’s number one user of “targeted killings,” largely due to its drone attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

JR/AB/SS

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