Donald Trump ‘to ramp up the CIA’s deadly drone programme’ so he can ‘bomb the s**t out of ISIS’
Under Obama's presidency up to 4,666 people were killed by the unmanned aircraft
MILITARY experts predict Donald Trump will ramp up the CIA's assassination drone programme to “bomb the s**t out of ISIS”
Under Barack Obama's presidency up to 4,666 people, including 745 civilians, were killed by the unmanned aircraft, new figures show.
Experts on the use of drones in the war on terror believe Mr Trump could use them to fulfil previous pledges to “bomb the s**t out of ISIS” and “wipe Somali pirates off the face of the Earth”.
New figures collated by London's Bureau of Investigative Journalism show Obama authorised 541 CIA drone strikes on alleged Islamist extremists in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia over the past eight years.
That was TEN TIMES more than his predecessor George W Bush, reports the .
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In addition, Airwars, another journalism project, estimates a further 900 drone strikes have been authorised by the Pentagon since inside the official war zones of Iraq and Syria.
Airwars director Chris Woods is considered a world leading authority on the use of drones and believes there is a “real worry” about how Mr Trump might embrace the deadly technology.
He told The Independent: “Obama warned us during his own campaign trail back in 2008 that he would escalate drone warfare. He mentioned approximately 30 times that he would take the war against al-Qaeda to Pakistan.
“That’s why we have to worry about Donald Trump. You have to listen to have he has already said. He’s already said he might deliberately target the families of senior Isis militants – which would be a war crime.