'The Washington Post has published a third story in its series on the Obama administration’s institutionalization of its targeted killing program. This story highlights Camp Lemmonier, the United States military base in Djibouti where drones land or take off around sixteen times a day, and is reportedly the first time the US military has confirmed publicly drones are present at this base.

Written by Craig Whitlock, the story reports this base has become the main combat hub for "the Obama administration’s counterterrorism wars in the Horn of Africa and Middle East." Drones either head for "the collapsed state" of Somalia, which is just 10 miles southeast, or "north across the Gulf of Aden to Yemen, another unstable country where they are being used in an increasingly deadly war with an al Qaeda franchise."'

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