Report from Tom Keogh with Brooklyn for Peace:

On Friday, April 22, activists held an anti -war, anti- drone protest at the Hancock Air National Guard base near Syracuse. There was also a protest at a drone base in Nevada yesterday.

People from Staten Island, the Bronx, Manhattan and Brooklyn were there. Some were arrested. 37 people were arrested including Jerome Berrigan , 91, brother of Fr. Dan Berrigan and the late Phillip Berrigan.

Earlier in the week Obama announced the use of drones in Libya. The previous week they announced that they can use nuclear weapons on drones if they want to. So far in 2011, drones are killing large numbers of civilians in Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, and now in the escalating war in Libya. On Monday April 11, the US military admitted that they killed U .S. soldiers in Afghanistan with a drone. The military explanation is that drones have a mechanism that detects the body heat of people. In a combat area, 2 warm bodies were detected and killed. Those drones and drone operators can not see who they are killing. They can not tell the difference between a civilian or a soldier or the nationality of that soldier according to the official press releases on the April 11 killings.

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