Secret U.S. base for drone aircraft in Saudi Arabia

Website told the British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC, citing U.S. media, and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency ran a secret base of operations for unmanned aircraft in Saudi Arabia, during the past two years.


The secret base had been established for the prosecution of members of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which is based in Yemen base.

Established and used in the attacks to drones in September 2011 to kill Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born was in charge - as has been said - Foreign Operations Command to al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.

It is noteworthy that the U.S. media was aware of the existence of the secret base, but did not mention in their reports.

The U.S. Department of Defense has withdrawn almost all its military forces from Saudi Arabia in 2003, where there were between 5,000 to 10,000 troops in the kingdom in the wake of the 1991 Gulf War.
What was left there is officially only members of the U.S. mission to train military.

The base was established drones in December 2009, following a cruise missile attack in Yemen, as The New York Times reported the U.S..

It was the first attack ordered by the administration of President Obama, has ended in tragedy when it killed dozens of civilians, including women and children.
U.S. officials said the newspaper, said that the first time you use the CIA secret facility was killed Awlaki.
Since then delegated agency with the task of catching and killing "high value targets" in Yemen, and they are the leaders of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, who said government lawyers, they represent a direct threat to the United States.

The drones can carry out attacks without permission from the Yemeni government.

The Washington Post newspaper, adviser to U.S. President Obama's counter-terrorism, John Brennan, a former director of the Office of the CIA in Saudi Arabia has played a prominent role in negotiations with the government of Riyadh on the establishment of the rule.

Many of the Muslims - including al-Qaeda leader, Osama bin Laden - see the deployment of U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia, where the holy places, betrayed them.
That was one of the reasons used to bin Laden mentioned to justify violence against the United States and its allies.

And today unveiled a note defended the White House for the use of unmanned aircraft in attacks against suspected al-Qaida, describing it as a legal and moral and wise.

The White House insisted it was in line with U.S. law and that a constitutional even if the target Americans.

The White House, defending the authority of President Barack Obama in the war drone following the release of a memorandum from the U.S. Department of Justice, in which she says: The targeting of Americans who occupy ranks high in al-Qaeda and killing illegal, even if not successful intelligence in providing information indicating recruited any attack.

The statement comes NBC News - which published on its website a copy of the note - at a time when the attacks of U.S. drones in Pakistan, Yemen and elsewhere investigations Unaudited and growing questions from human rights groups.
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We have implemented these attacks because it was necessary to get rid of the constant threats, and to stop the plots, and prevent future attacks, and to preserve the lives of Americans, "says White House spokesman J. Carney.

"These attacks legal, and moral, and wise."
The most drone attacks controversial those which took place in September 2011, which killed Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan, and because the men were not U.S. citizens Athma any crime before.

Carney said, "I want to point out that anyone who takes up arms against the United States in the war against them is an enemy, and therefore can be targeted."

The note provides extensive definitions of American self-defense, and the impending attacks, more than his share of U.S. officials before, who were Anson in their defense of the attacks on the "right of self-defense."

The memo said "The requirement that the chief of operations represents what an imminent threat of a violent attack on the United States of America does not require access to clear evidence that a specific attack on the American people or U.S. interests will happen in the future."

Instead, any administrator, "a senior he had information" that could decide whether the person being targeted is an imminent threat of an attack violently the United States, "if that person involved" now "in such activities, no evidence exists to About Violence .

The note also adds that the arrest of any person be meaningful if you do not arrest represents unnecessary danger to the American people.
The memo was following address "legal lethal operations against any U.S. citizen ranks high in the leadership of al-Qaeda operations, or any other related power."