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Iraq
Unexploded drone found near Duhok dam
2023-04-11
[Rudaw] A villager on Monday told Rudaw that he had found an unwent kaboom! explosive-laden drone near Duhok dam and handed it over to security forces to investigate.

Haval Boti from Botya village in Zawita subdistrict told Rudaw on Monday that he found a drone with three unwent kaboom! bombs near the Duhok dam three days ago.

He added that he informed local security forces who have launched an investigation into the incident.

The area is known for being one of the hotspots of conflict between The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), but it is unclear if Monday’s incident is linked.

A security source familiar with the case told Rudaw on the condition of anonymity that this is not the first time such incidents take place in the province.

"We have launched an investigation but we have not concluded which country or party the drone belongs to," added the source.

Rudaw has learned that this is the sixth time drones have landed in the province since last month.

The dam is one of the largest in the Kurdistan Region and it is not clear if it was the target of the drone attack near Botya village.

Drone warfare has become a common occurrence in the Kurdistan Region, as well as Iraq, with most incidents being attributed to Turkey, Iran, and pro-Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
Iraqi militia groups.
Posted by:trailing wife

#2  Backgrounder: The Washington Post on 13 July 2013 published an article by C. Whitlock entitled “US drone surveillance expands to other hot spots…” Whitlock’s report was general and offered little new to interested parties who have followed the use of American drones employed in anti-terrorist activity in Somalia, Mali and Yemen. However, we learn that some 40 Americans – both military and civilian – are administering “flight services” in suport of a secret drone program that operates from a small enclave within the base at Incirlik, Turkey. What the team is up to, and how the presence of US drones at a Turkish airbase benefits the government of Recep Erdogan and/or the American intelligence community can only be guessed. Would Turkey allow the U.S. to unilaterally operate drones from Turk territory? Would their be dual-use of drones? Would the United States lease Predator or Reaper drones to the Turkish military forces for their own use? Certainly there must exist a quid pro quo. No mention was made of the fact that in 2012 Turkey ended an arrangement with Israel which had previously provided it with drone aircraft. The Turkish government of Prime Erdogan then announced that in 2013 it would begin to produce the ANKA, an indigenous surveillance drone.
Posted by: Slavising Unineting5672   2023-04-11 11:26  

#1  Hard to imagine it is a Turkish drone. If so, Turkey is playing with fire given the existence of its own dams on the Tigris and Euphrates. Its Atatürk Dam is the third largest dam in the world. It is a rock-fill with a central core and is located on the Euphrates River in Southeastern Anatolia.
Posted by: Tarzan Grolump8219   2023-04-11 09:26  

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