Prof. Aijaz Ahmad discusses with Newsclick the implications of cyberwar and drone attacks in other countries.

Last two weeks have brought out that cyber

Wired has reported that a virus has hit the US drone fleet operating out of Creech Airbase in Nevada. This has not stopped the Predator and Reaper drones from operating in Afghanistan, West Asia and now also North Africa, the areas the US considers as “war zones” – a shadowy war in which the ratio of high valued targets to actual “kills” are now (2009-2010 figures) running at 1: 147.