Mosko: “Voice of Russia” has claimed about the retired drone operator that the drone operations were made from the Germany in Pakistan. According to Russian radio, Brendan Bryant, who did more than 1 thousands drone operations in Pakistan says that the U.S. “drone war” was not possible without Germany.
Brendan Bryant said that the Germany’s” Ramstein Air Base” was used for drone operations in Pakistan as 1,200 people were killed in Pakistan at the proceedings of the unit. In 2011, Brendan was retired from the U.S. Air Force. He claimed that the CIA’s special team in Germany also analyzed data from the drone that the information is sent to the U.S.
For years the US has been using drones to fight terrorism in Africa, the Middle East and in the Pakistani-Afghan border region. Since 2004, the Investigative Bureau of Journalism estimates there have been 383 US drone strikes in the Pakistani-Afghan border region alone. At least 2,300 people have been killed, among them 416 civilians.
The German government has never specifically asked Washington, giving America the opportunity to avoid the issue, said Marcel Dickow from the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin. Apparently the German government intends to ask the US for more specific information relating to the drone program.
Bryant said that Ramstein was always “the first port of call” during any strike. “The US government has confirmed that such armed and remote aircrafts are not flown or controlled from US bases in Germany,” government spokesman Steffen Seibert told reporters.