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International, U.S.

World War 3: U.S. occupation of Afghanistan; 22 – 26 March 2013. Co-ordinated attacks by Mujahideen! More U.S./U.K. troops killed! Aussies getting out! U.S. finally hands over Bagram prison! Proof the U.S. has been negotiating with Mujahideen!

26 March 2013/14 Jumada l-Ula 1434/06 Farvardin 1391/15 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711

International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) reports a soldier died from wounds he received earlier this month.

In Kandahar Province, reports of a major battle in Najibyano area of Zangawat region, Panjwai (aka Panjwaye, Panjwaii, Panjway or Panjwaee) district.  Reports that two medivac helicopters were brought in.

In Helmand Province, a major attack against a U.K./NATO base.  60 people killed or wounded, including 10 British Red Coats. Mujahideen say it was launched using a truck bomb blowing open the gates and then individuals invading the base in Nad Ali district.   Also, reports that U.S./U.K. led force conducted home invasions in Yakhchal area of Nahr Siraj region, Gerishk district, kidnapping two people.

In Badakhshan Province, Mujahideen have successfully counter attacked an Afghan government offensive in Wardoj/Wardaj district (see below).   Mujahideen say they re-captured several check points and killed 15 government troops.

In Nangarhar Province, a Afghan police headquarters in Jalalabad was attacked by suicide bombers.  At least five cops killed, four wounded.  Police say a car bomber started the attack, then two or three others wearing explosive vests exploded themselves and the rest were shot and killed in a firefight. Mujahideen claim one U.S. led police trainer was also killed (they say the trainer was actually from Israel), along with claiming as many as 55 people killed or wounded.

In Ghor Province, residents of Ghujorak village say contracted security forces set fire to their homes. They also say the private security forces burned Qur’ans.

Stephen Smith, Australian Defence Minister, said 1000 Diggers will be withdrawn by the end of 2013, once an international military base is closed in Uruzgan Province.

25 March 2013/13 Jumada l-Ula 1434/05 Farvardin 1391/14 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711

In Badakhshan Province, Mujahideen claim to have captured ten Afghan National Army (ANA) troops and one doctor.  This is the latest incident in Badakhshan Province since the beginning of March (see below).  Government officials say they launched an all out offensive against Mujahideen this month, but it looks like they’re losing their asses because several dozens of ANA troops have been killed or captured. One of those captured is a German NGO aid worker.  ANA forces freed the German during a military operation.

In Maidan Wardak Province, Mujahideen have launched an offensive, seeking vengeance for the crimes of U.S. led SOF forces. In Syed Abad district they ambushed a military convoy, then a firefight that lasted one hour. Mujahideen say they also hit two armored vehicles with remote detonated bombs, killing or wounding the crews.

After months of delays, the United States has finally handed over the infamous Bagram prison (aka Parwan Detention Facility).  However, at least 100 prisoners are still under U.S. control.  Afghan officials immediately released 26 prisoners.  Most prisoners, put there by U.S. forces, have never been charged or even accused of any crimes, they were just in the wrong place at the wrong time and happen to be males of ‘military age’ (a standard Israeli tactic used on Palestinians). But U.S. taxpayers should be happy, because their tax dollars will continue funding the prison even after the U.S. gets out!   (reports say the U.S. has promised $39 million USD to keep the prison running)

24 March 2013/12 Jumada l-Ula 1434/04 Farvardin 1391/13 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711

In Kandahar Province, four children were killed and two wounded when they stepped on a landmine.

In Herat Province, Shindand district, a private security guard shot and killed a 12 years old boy.  Residents of Siyah Sar village then went on protest, shutting down the local highway for two hours before more private security guards came out and began shooting into the crowd. At least seven people wounded.

After U.S. officials denied President Hamid Karzai’s claim that the U.S. and Mujahideen were going behind the Afghan government’s back and negotiating in Qatar, guess who’s just been invited to those secret meetings?  Karzai!  Karzai has been complaining that the establishment of the Mujahideen/Taliban office in Qatar (with the approval of the U.S. government) was an insult to Afghanistan because the Afghan government was not involved. Now there are reports that Karzai will be able to hold direct talks with Mujahideen in Qatar.  Keep in mind that many Mujahideen do not recognize the “Taliban Liaison Office” in Qatar, as they see it as a tool of the United States.

23 March 2013/11 Jumada l-Ula 1434/03 Farvardin 1391/12 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711

In Paktika Province, Jani Khel district, four government personnel joined the Mujahideen.

In Kandahar Province, Panjwaee district, Mujahideen shot down a U.S./NATO/ISAF recon balloon.

In Badakhshan Province, a major offensive rages on (see below). In Wardoj/Wardaj district 49 government forces killed, dozens wounded.  Mujahideen say they’ve captured 57 U.S. supplied weapons, including rockets and two vehicles. The Afghan government claims they called in airstrikes and killed at least 40 Mujahideen.  At least three Mujahideen wounded.

22 March 2013/10 Jumada l-Ula 1434/02 Farvardin 1391/11 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711

In Kunar Province, a U.S. led Counter Terrorism Pursuit Team (CTPT) launched an offensive in Narang district. Reports say fighting lasted five hours. Mujahideen claim they killed three U.S. personnel and three Afghan government personnel.  One Mujahid killed, one wounded.

ISAF said: “An International Security Assistance Force service member died following an improvised explosive device attack in eastern Afghanistan…”

In Badghis Province, a local cop turned on his comrades, killing five of them.  Police officials say he did it with help from Mujahideen.

In Laghman Province, in Alingar district, two children were killed, one wounded, when two U.S./NATO mortar rounds hit their house.

In Badakhshan Province, government officials in Wardoj district claim they’ve taken back check points that were captured by Mujahideen last week.  They claimed they killed 43 Mujahideen.

International

World War 3: Iranian Navy buzzed by Aussie ASW bird!

17 March 2013/05 Jumada l-Ula 1434/27 Esfand 1391/06 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711

Iranian Navy officials say an Australian ASW (anti-submarine/ship warfare) aircraft approached an Iranian helicopter carrier and a destroyer while they were off the coast of Sri Lanka.

“The Navy’s 24th fleet of warships, comprised of Khark chopper carrier and Sabalan destroyer, which was nearing Sri Lanka’s coasts after leaving Zhangjigang port of China and crossing the line of the Equator.…The reconnaissance plane changed its flight route immediately after receiving the warships’ warning but dropped some subsurface units detection devices…..all the dropped devices were hunted skillfully and by the timely action of the Iranian Navy forces.”-Admiral Siyavash Jarreh, Islamic Republic of Iran Navy (IRIN)

International

Christian & Government Evil: Queen of England’s empire rife with child abuse at the hands of church & government officials, Australia admits guilt, hidden investigations reveal tip of iceberg!

“I can testify from my own experience that the church covers up, silences victims, hinders police investigations, alerts offenders, destroys evidence and moves priests to protect the good name of the church.”-Peter Fox, New South Wales Detective Chief Inspector

“I would say please get the Jillings report published because it shows… rape, bestiality, violent assaults and torture, and the effects on those young boys at that time cannot be under-estimated.”-Ann Clwyd, read mysterious Jillings Report

12 November 2012, a total of three British Broadcasting Corporaton (BBC) executives have now resigned over a documentary that falsely accused a politician of child sex abuse.

The problem is that such crimes are rife within the British empire.  Today the Australian Prime minister, Julia Gillard, caved to demands from the general public and said a Royal Commission investigation into child abuse, taking place in schools and churches, will be undertaken.

This came after a top police official in New South Wales made demands in a publicized letter to the government. Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox wrote his letter after 35 years of investigating crimes against children.

However, the Australian government’s investigation will apparently focus only on the Catholic Church.  The current pope has already apologized, and the Aussie state of Victoria confirmed at least 600 cases of abuse at the hands of Catholic officials, since 1936.  The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference publicly supports the investigation, but pointed out that the problem of child sexual abuse is not confined just to the Catholic church.

Opposition party politicians are asking that the Royal investigation be expanded to other churches, schools and even non-governmental agencies.

Back to the British Isles.  The BBC report concerned long term child abuse crimes in Wales.  Crimes that had been investigated then covered up by the local county government.

In this particular case, the abuse took place throughout the 1970s-80s.  In 1991 seven workers at child care homes were convicted, however, another investigation was launched because the abuse claims continued.

In 1994 John Jillings was hired by the county to lead the investigation.  He says the Clwyd County Council refused to make public his investigation (aka The Jillings Report), on the advise of attorneys who said the county would be sued.

Then, in 2000, High Court judge Sir Ronald Waterhouse published his investigation, which has been criticized as not showing the full scale of the child abuse scandal.

This led to the recent BBC report, which somehow got the public blaming an unnamed politician (unnamed in the BBC report) who supposedly is not connected to the crimes.  The whole thing is actually diverting from the real problem of how rampant child abuse, at the hands of British government and church officials, really is in Merry Olde England (of course I mean the whole of the British empire).

Here’s what Colin Everett, of the Flintshire County Council, said about the mysterious Jillings report: “We have now established that several copies of the report are in existence in local authority archives.  The report and any supporting documents held in archive are being made available to North Wales Police and the National Crime Agency (NCA). The Jillings report was disclosed to the subsequent Waterhouse inquiry and we would expect the NCA to have access to it through recovery of the papers from the inquiry, held in archive by government departments. North Wales local authorities are taking collective and independent legal advice on whether the report can or should be disclosed under the Freedom of Information legislation, whether in full or in part. The National Crime Agency is being consulted, as any public disclosure cannot compromise or prejudice the new investigation.”

(and don’t forget about the abuse of European orphans and Native Americans at the hands of Canadian officials throughout the 20th century.)

 

Business/Economics, International, U.S.

What Economic Recovery? Updated list of more Kmart and Sears closings! Sears Canada to focus on consumers’ “wants” and not “needs”. Kmart stores in North Carolina & Australia going down!

08 November 2012, the closing of Kmarts and Sears continues.  This time it includes a store in Australia!

The Kmart store in Katoomba, Australia, is being replaced with a Woolworths.  This comes after the Australian owned Kmart reported increased sales (Kmarts in Australia and New Zealand are not owned by the U.S. based Sears Holdings).

In Canada, Sears is spending money trying to rebuild its image through an advertising campaign.  Officials admitted that Sears doesn’t satisfy ‘needs’, and they will focus on ‘wants’ in their adds: “We sell more wants than needs. What ‘wants’ deliver is inspiration and emotion, happiness, and that was really the emotion we focused on for our brand and tag line.”-Calvin McDonald, Sears Canada CEO

The problem is that in bad economies your average working class consumer must ignore ‘wants’ and are forced to focus on ‘needs’.

U.S. based Sears Holdings announced they will release third quarter earnings on 15 November 2012.

Here’s the updated list, with the North Carolina addition.

Alabama: Gadsden Kmart (50 jobs lost), Mobile Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Auburn Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost).

California:   El Monte Sears (at least 40 jobs lost. Damien Arrula, El Monte’s economic development director, said the store manager had lied about what was going on: “The general manager of the store had just indicated to me that they were remodeling.”), two San Diego Sears (at least 80 jobs lost), Pleasant Hill Kmart (more than 50 jobs lost).

Colorado:  Broomfield Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Glenwood Springs Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Lone Tree Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Longmont Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Pueblos’ South Side Kmart (52 jobs lost).

Georgia: Macon Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Buford Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Douglasville Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Atlanta Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Columbus Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Jonesboro Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Cartersville Kmart (74 jobs lost).

Florida: Fernandina Beach Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Callaway Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Orange City Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost),  Deland Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Stuart Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), West Palm Beach Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Port St. Lucie Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Crystal River Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), New Smyrna Beach Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Saint Augustine Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Pompano Beach Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost),  Jacksonville Kmart on 5751 Beach Boulevard (71 jobs lost), second Kmart in Jacksonville on 4645 Blanding Boulevard (83 jobs lost), Ocoee Sears (102 jobs lost), Pensacola Kmart on Airport Boulevard closed in 2011, Pensacola Kmart on Mobile Highway to be closed by 03 February 2013 (69 jobs lost), Hialeah Kmart (67 jobs lost).

Idaho: Lewiston Sears (at least 60 jobs lost).

Indiana:  Anderson Sears (at least 40 jobs lost), Saint John Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Indianapolis Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost).

Illinois:  Melrose Park Sears parts and repair center (50 jobs lost), Fairview Heights Kmart (81 jobs lost), Freeport Kmart (45 jobs lost), Pontiac Kmart (more than 47 jobs lost).

Iowa:  Cedar Rapids Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Davenport Kmart (at least 40 jobs lost), Burlington Kmart (50 jobs lost).

Kansas: Lawrence Sears (at least 40 jobs lost).

Kentucky: Middlesboro Sears Hard lines, Winchester Kmart, Hazard Kmart.

Maine: Lewiston Sears.

Maryland: Ellicott Sears Grand/Essentials.

Michigan: Brighton Sears Grand/Essentials,  Harper Woods Sears Full line, Monroe Sears Full line, Adrian Sears Full line, Washington Township Kmart, Chesterfield Kmart, Woodhaven Kmart.

Minnesota: Willmar Kmart, Duluth Kmart, New Hope Kmart, White Bear Lake Kmart.

Mississippi: Jackson Sears Full line, McComb Sears Full line, Columbus Sears Full line.

Missouri: Lee’s Summit Sears Grand/Essentials, Saint Louis Sears Full line.

Montana: Missoula Kmart.

New Hampshire: Nashau Sears Grand/Essentials, Keene Sears Grand/Essentials.

North Carolina: High Point Sears, Moorehead Sears, Rocky Mount Sears, Statesville Sears, and the newly revealed Durham Kmart (79 jobs lost).

New Jersey:  Lawnside Kmart.

Ohio: Chagrin Falls Kmart, Springfield Kmart, two Toledo Kmarts, Medina Kmart, Columbus Kmart, Zanesville Sears (67 jobs lost), Trotwood Kmart (71 jobs lost).   Also, Van Wert Sears franchise bought out by Kirk Berryman, owner of Computer & Networking Technologies (CNT), who plans on moving the store to a new location.

Oregon: Roseburg Sears, Tualatin Kmart.

Pennsylvania: Upper Darby Sears Full line, Pottstown Sears Full line, Pittsburgh Kmart, Wilkins Sears.

South Carolina: Sumter Sears, Orangeburg Sears (approximately 50 jobs lost).

Tennessee: Antioch Sears Full line, Cleveland Sears Full line, Oak Ridge Sears Full line, Hendersonville Kmart, Morristown Sears Full line.

Texas: Two Sears parts and repair centers closing in The Woodlands (117 jobs lost), rebuild center in Garland (58 jobs lost).

Virginia: Norfolk Sears Full line,  Midlothian Kmart, Richmond Kmart, Lynchburg Sears (84 jobs lost).

Washington: Walla Walla Sears Full line, Lacey Kmart, Kelso Sears, Lakewood Kmart (59 jobs lost), Bellingham Sears (92 jobs lost).

Wisconsin: West Baraboo Sears Grand/Essentials, Rice Lake Kmart.

On top of that, Sears Holdings sold stores to General Growth Properties (GGP), of which it has been reported that most of those stores will be closed.

Here’s the list of 11 Sears stores now owned by GGP:

Iowa: Coral Ridge Mall, and Mall of the Bluffs

Texas: The Woodlands Mall (this does not involve the two repair centers being closed by Sears)

Florida: West Oaks Mall

Utah: Fashion Place, and Provo Towne Centre (note the evil British empire way of spelling town & center. Due to a favorable lease agreement the GGP owned Provo Sears will continue to stay open under Sears Holdings management)

Oklahoma: Quail Springs Mall

Hawaii: Ala Moana Center

Washington: Bellis Fair Mall (Bellingham store, see above)

Minnesota: Apache Mall

Illinois: Market Place Shopping Center

Business/Economics, International, U.S.

What Economic Recovery? Australia’s Quantas reports first loss ever! Will hurt U.S. economy; no more Boeing orders!

23 August 2012, Australia’s Quantas Airways reported its first yearly loss since it was privatized 17 years ago.

Quantas lost $250 million USD from June 2011 to June 2012.  The airline blames the high cost of fuel, coupled with flight cancellations and employee strikes.

The loss means that Quantas will now put on hold a huge order (35 aircraft) for the latest 787 airliners made by U.S. company Boeing.

 

International, U.S.

World War 3: Australia joins U.S. led Pacific Air Forces. Begins new trilateral war games with Japan.

“The purpose of the Cope North exercise, held two to three times per year, is to enhance U.S. and Japanese air operations.”-GlobalSecurity.org

Until the recent signing of the trilateral military pact, Cope North war games were conducted by U.S. and Japanese air forces.  Now Australia joins the U.S. led Pacific Air Forces.

“….because of our unique training advantages Andersen AFB is also the preferred location to host numerous Department of Defense joint and combined exercises, most recently COPE NORTH, Pacific Air Forces premier trilateral exercise with the Japanese Self Defense Air Force and the Royal Australian Air Force.”-Colonel Randy Kaufman, Commander of the USAF 36th Operations Group at Andersen Air Force Base 

Andersen AFB is located on the U.S. Empire territory of Guam.

International, U.S.

Queen’s Evil British Empire: U.S. ally Australia involved with Elitist Ritual Homosexual Crimes against Children!

“It is certain that many boys were subjected to serious sexual and physical assault and other serious abuse… from the 1950s through to the 1970s and possibly into the 1980s.”-from government report obtained by Australian Broadcasting Corporation under freedom of information laws

15 June 2012, results of a government investigation into sex crimes committed by the British Commonwealth (empire) Australian military have been revealed by the Australian news media.

A royal commission discovered at least 850 cases of “horrific” sexual and other serious physical assaults against boys as young as 13.  The investigation was started after someone posted video of a sexual incident on Skype, last year.

However the allegations have been made by victims for decades!  In 2008, a former Australian army chief, Peter Leahy, said the sickos needed to be “pursued to the full extent of the law”, adding that the sickos “…been living a lie”.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard said the report was “truly disturbing reading”.  Investigators believe the Australian military has been infiltrated by the same secret occult organization of pedophiles that had infiltrated Australian orphanages, schools and churches!

The report said the elitist occult members performed initiation ceremonies, called “bastardisation”, which were “brutal” and “rife” until very recently!  Investigators believe that some of the perpetrators now hold mid and high level positions within the Australian military.

At the beginning of this month, the United States and Japan announced a military pact with Australia.  The U.S. already has troops on the ground in Australia.

International, U.S.

World War 3: Australia, Japan, United States agree to military pact! “Re-balancing region” against China!

“Australian Defense Minister Stephen Smith joined Panetta and Watanabe in another trilateral meeting. The U.S., Japanese and Australian leaders agreed ‘to work through 2020 to refine and consolidate their trilateral defense relationship and support the network of existing alliances, forums and dialogues to meet a variety of common security challenges,'”-U.S. Department of Defense press release

2 June 2012, Australia, Japan and the U.S. have agreed to pursue a military pact that is in line with what an unnamed U.S. Defense official said was “…our rebalancing to the region.”

There are a lot of coded words and phrases in the Defense Department press release, all indicating that the U.S., along with dozens of countries in the Asia Pacific region, are falling in line against China!

But don’t blame Barack Obama, these Shangri-La Dialogue anti-China re-balancing meetings began under the George W. Bush administration.

According to Japanese news media reports, the new military pact between Australia, Japan and United States will include joint military industry developments.

International, U.S.

World War 3: Australia to give Afghanistan $100 million per year! U.S. to pay Pakistan $365 million per year! Germany to pay $190 million per year! Tribal leaders assassinated. U.S./NATO/Afghan forces on offensive. More big drug busts.

May 16, 2012, in Afghanistan’s Herat Province three village elders were assassinated.  They were shot while attending morning prayers in a Mosque.  A fourth elder was wounded.

In Uruzgan Province a tribal elder, and his son, were assassinated by gunman on a motorcycle.

To show you how important the U.S./NATO supply route through Pakistan is, Pakistani officials revealed that the United States has agreed to give Pakistan an additional $365 million USD per year to re-open supply routes!  Those supply routes have been shut down for the past six months.

It works out to about $1,500 USD per supply truck, per day.  In return, not only will Pakistan re-open the supply routes, but their military will provide the convoys with security (which they have not done before).

According to Pentagon sources, as much as 30% of U.S./NATO supplies for Afghanistan operations pass through Pakistan.

Australia’s Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, announced that beginning in 2015 Australia will give Afghanistan $100 million (Aussie and British media reports did not specify if it was in AUD or USD) per year, for three years: “To consolidate and build on the security gains of the transition strategy, the Afghan National Security Forces will need ongoing funding and training and mentoring support…” 

On top of that she also said that the Australian government will consider keeping special operations forces in Afghanistan, after most of their Diggers leave at the end of 2014.

Germany has also announced they will be bribing, I mean paying, the Afghan government $190 million USD per year, after German troops leave in 2014.  The deal was just signed by Hamid Karzai and Angela Merkel.  The German Chancellor said the West is planning on staying a long time: “This shows we are committed to Afghanistan in the long term.”

These pledges of hundreds of millions of USDs is on top of what our Western governments are already giving the U.S. puppet governments of Afghanistan and Pakistan!

With the economies of the Western countries collapsing, it makes you wonder where they’re gonna get all this money they’re pledging for Afghanistan?

Afghan government officials claiming major offensive against Mujahideen.  In Helmand Province on May 15, they captured nine tons of explosives.  Officials claim three people were spotted laying mines, and a U.S./NATO airstrike was called in, killing them.

On May 16, in Paktika Province, a U.S./NATO airstrike was called in when Afghan and NATO forces came under heavy fire.  Afghan officials revealed that a major offensive was launched on May 14, and will continue until all Mujahideen are cleared from the province.  They say at least nine Mujahideen were killed by the airstrike.

Afghan Interior Ministry officials also claim that in the past 24 hours of their offensive in Paktika, as well as Badakhshan Province, they’ve killed at least 14 Mujahideen.

In Kandahar Province, Afghan army claims they killed a potential suicide bomber before he could carry out his mission.

24 hour, ISAF Joint Command Morning operational update for May 16, 2012: ISAF reports more attempts/successes to capture “leaders” in Helmand and Kunduz provinces.

ISAF also reports that occupation troops came under attack when they launched a drug bust operation in Helmand Province.  Mujahideen were killed.

The drug bust yielded more than 5,000 kilograms (11,000 pounds) of morphine waste, 400 kilograms (880 pounds) of ammonium chloride, 400 kilograms of morphine base and 4,000 liters (1,057 gallons) of liquid morphine.

ISAF claims that all items captured in drug busts are destroyed.

 

International, Technology, U.S.

Terror Drones: April 2-8, U.S. to quadruple assassination drone attacks

The Washington Post reporting that the United States did indeed spy on Iran using UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles, aka drones).

The report says the National Security Agency has at least three years worth of drone surveillance data on Iran. The program is being run by the Central Intelligence Agency’s Iran Operations Division (aka Persia House).

April 7, Yemen military officials say a U.S. drone strike killed 24 anti-government Mujahideen in two locations.  They say some of those killed were foreign Arabs.

There are several anti-government groups in Yemen, two are called Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, and Partisans of Sharia.

Reports this past week say that the continued use of drones in Yemen could draw the U.S. into a full blown civil war: ”The more the U.S. applies its current policy, the stronger Al Qaeda seems to get.”–Charles Schmitz, American Institute of Yemen Studies

“Drones are a weapon of terror in many ways, and the kind of hostility this is going to breed may not be worth the counter-terrorism gains.”-Barbara Bodine, former U.S. ambassador to Yemen

“Heavily armed American soldiers have begun appearing in large numbers at the Sheraton Hotel in the capital, Sana, a Yemeni official said.“-Los Angeles Times

Also on April 7, Israeli forces attacked Gaza Strip with drones. Israeli officials said they targeted two men on a motorcycle in the town of Rafah: “Aircraft thwarted a rocket launch in the southern Gaza Strip.”-IDF statement

Despite claiming to have “thwarted” a rocket launch by Palestinians, two rockets were launched at Israel the next morning, April 8.

April 6, “An International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) rotary-wing unmanned aerial vehicle crashed in northern Afghanistan…”-ISAF statement

No further details were presented.  Some reports also said a NATO helicopter crashed in the same area, but it might be witnesses confusing the rotary wing drone for a manned helicopter.

There are conflicting reports about drone operations ending in Pakistan and Afghanistan.  Most reports say drone operations will end after 2014, but there is a report that says assassination drones (aka MQ 9 Reapers) will actually quadruple their terror activity until 2016!

The report says the Reapers will operate from Australia’s Cocos Islands: “But don’t expect the worldwide drone war now being waged in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Somalia and Yemen to wind down. To the contrary, an Air Force announcement posted online this week indicates the Pentagon anticipates more than quadrupling the size of the global drone war over the next four years.”-Salon, Air Force ramps up drone war

April 5, the U.S. puppet government of Somalia stated to the United Nations that they have given the U.S. permission to use drones against their own people.

“I’m not going to get into matters that relate to intelligence. I will say that the United States has been and remains extremely focused-as do all members of the international community-on combating the terrorist threat that Al Shabaab poses, as an active threat not only to Somali but to the people of the region and beyond, in particular, given its active affiliation with Al Qaeda.“-Susan Rice, U.S. ambassador to the UN

April 3, a U.S. drone crashed and exploded in Somalia.  The drone went down near the town of El-Bur, which is considered a stronghold of the anti-Western government Mujahidden group called al-Shabaab.  However, the residents of the town say al-Shabaab fighters left the town on March 24.