Libya: White Flag War Crime & Working With Al-Qaeda

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“To ignore the white flag of surrender, the white flag of truce, I think is a major, major war crime and one that NATO will try to cover up with all of its resources because every one recognizes that that is way beyond the pale when it comes to a war crime; failing to recognize [...]

Iraq Militants Brag: We’ve Got Robotic Weapons, Too

By Noah Shachtman, Wired.com U.S. forces used a combination of spy drones and bomb-handling robots to help beat back Iraq’s insurgents. Now, those militants have a warning for those American troops still remaining in Iraq: We’ve got robots, too. In a slick new online video just released by the Ansar al-Islam extremist group, kafiya-clad engineers [...]

Army Tracking Plan: Drones That Never Forget a Face

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Perhaps the idea of spy drones already makes your nervous. Maybe you’re uncomfortable with the notion of an unblinking, robotic eye in the sky that can watch your every move. If so, you may want to click away now. Because if the Army has its way, drones won’t just be able to look at what [...]

Unmanned spy drones and facial recognition cameras could soon be the norm

The growth of the police and surveillance state continues. We delve deeper and deeper into a Brave New World/1984 style grid of control while the general populace wants to just to continue buying ipods, plasma televisions and Blu Ray discs. Ministers signalled (sic) that advances in technology meant there was nothing to stop such controversial [...]