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Share THE UK Government has been urged to make an urgent statement after an official defence document declared that lethal drone strikes had been used to kill terror suspects outside warzones. Ministry of Defence (MoD) officials published a report which claimed that the UK has a “practice” ofusing remotely-piloted aircraft to target terrorists outwith armed conflicts.
However, when the inflammatory claim was brought to the MoD’s attention by SNP MP Stewart McDonald, officials then deleted the section and described its inclusion as a mistake.
The backtracking has led to fears that the Government risks a US-style policy of using drone attacks wherever it wants across the globe.
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), otherwise known as a drones, operate without a human pilot aboard and are used in conflicts throughout the world. Armed with missiles, they have been deployed in Syria and Iraq to kill senior figures in Isis, including British-born individuals suspected of joining the [...]
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