Predator drones seek and destroy

Sending message to terrorists: You can run, but you cant hide. Our predator drones will find you

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This is DEFCON 3 by KT, and I’m KT McFarland

Recently, a CIA-operated drone aircraft targeted and killed Pakistan’s public enemy number one, Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud. A few weeks before, they killed Osama bin-Ladin’s son.

Mehsud was one of the nastiest characters on the planet. He was behind Benazir Bhutto’s assassination in 2007….  mastermind of the wave of suicide bombings in Pakistani cities….. godfather to a new type of suicide bomber — young children strapped with explosives and sent out to die.

Mehsud’s number one goal? to seize Pakistan’s nuclear weapons and destroy the White House, New York and London. It’s good that he’s gone.

But the way he was killed is important too.  He was targeted for months, by American Predator drones flying high and out of site,  like a modern, mechanical bird of prey, watching and waiting for a clear shot. And Mehsud knew it. By the time he was killed he was moving every hour and never out of a house or a car or a cave for more than a few minutes.

When Mehsud did venture out of doors, onto the rooftop of his father-in-law’s house, he was immediately killed by what must have seemed like a lightening bolt from the heavens.

What Mehsud’s death, and the recent death of Usama bin-Laden’s son, tells every other terrorist leader is: you can run, but you can’t hide. We have finally found a way to turn the tables: you are the ones who now have something to fear, you are the ones who can be attacked without notice.

The War on Terrorism is by no means over. We remain the number one target of a lethal band of Islamic jihadists bent on our destruction.  But we now have a way to hunt them down and, one by one, to destroy them.

This is DEFCON 3 by KT and I’m KT MCFArland