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| India-Pakistan |
| Taliban militants say they shot down U.S. drone |
| 2012-02-25 |
| A U.S. drone may have crashed on Saturday in North Waziristan, not far from the Afghan border, Pakistan intelligence officials said, and Taliban militants said they had shot it down. Taliban militants led by Hafiz Gul Bahadur said they had collected wreckage of the destroyed drone and would provide its pictures to the media on Sunday. Pakistani security officials, however, said they did not know what caused the drone to crash. "A drone aircraft was seen going down in Machikhel and flames were seen," a Pakistani intelligence official said. "We don't know what caused it to go down. We are investigating." Another official said the drone had gone down in an area controlled by militants, about 30 km (20 miles) from the Afghan border. "The local Taliban have the wreckage," he said. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #4 Since when have those savges been able to throw rocks 20,000 feet into the air? |
| Posted by: gorb 2012-02-25 16:31 |
| #3 wow, taliban 1, drones 10,000 |
| Posted by: chris 2012-02-25 15:18 |
| #2 The good thing about drones is that, even if the enemy shoots them down, there is no pilot that they can use by dragging his mutilated body through the streets. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2012-02-25 14:32 |
| #1 Switch to using masers in space to just cook the animals. |
| Posted by: Water Modem 2012-02-25 13:53 |