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| US willing to share drone technology with Pakistan: Gates |
| 2010-01-22 |
| Today's "Bad Idea of the Day"... [Dawn] US Defense Secretary Robert Gates has discussed the possibility of sharing its UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) drone technology with Pakistan. "These unmanned vehicles are useful and we have a budget for them," said Gates in an exclusive interview with a private television channel on Thursday. During the interview, Gates further confirmed that American security agencies Xe Services, formerly known as Blackwater, and DynCorp have been operating in Pakistan; however he said that these agencies are operating in their individual capacity under a regulatory framework. To a question about concerns in the Pakistani parliament over the activities of Xe and DynCorp, the Defense Secretary said that the US government would comply if the parliament of Pakistan votes for a ban on the functioning of these agencies. Gates said that the US is determined to be a long-time ally of Pakistan and has no intentions of 'taking over Pakistan.' "The US enjoys an excellent relationship with the Pakistani government and the army," said Gates, congratulating the Pakistani government for its successful military operations against militants. Terming the Haqqani group and Lashkar-e-Tayyaba as the most dangerous militant groups, Gates said that terrorism is the common enemy among Pakistan, India, Afghanistan and the United States. He further denied having any military relationship with India. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #18 TOPIX/WORLD NEWS > US TO GIVE PAKISTAN TWELVE DRONES. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-01-22 22:46 |
| #17 Slot some floppies, long, I tune you, best. |
| Posted by: Rhodesiafever 2010-01-22 20:03 |
| #16 And here I thought he was going to bodge it out of napkins. |
| Posted by: KBK 2010-01-22 19:27 |
| #15 Haha , pretty much Mom . Amusing website there :) |
| Posted by: Oscar 2010-01-22 18:39 |
| #14 Oscar: "Bodge" must be British for "Kludge" (pronounced "kloodge") http://thereifixedit.com And a "riff" is to jazz what a cadenza is to opera: a soloist takes the theme and runs away with it for a few measures (or, in jazz, a lot of measures), unaccompanied. And now I'd better get offline and impose some order. The kids are off school today. |
| Posted by: mom 2010-01-22 15:54 |
| #13 Sorry , sometimes my English colloquialisms get the better of me ! No apologies needed, Oscar dear, the various English dialects are part of Rantburg's charm. Not to mention the other languages -- surely you've noticed the occasional lapse into Afrikaans on the part of a few commenters? Or the fascinating Yiddish insult thread the other day, which nobody translated for me? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-01-22 14:46 |
| #12 Pardon one more literary riff: The Pobble who has no toes Swam across the Bristol Channel. But before he left, he wrapped his nose in a wrapper of scarlet flannel. For his Aunt Jobiska said, "No harm Can come to his toes if his nose is warm". Rantburgers, when you've had enough blether from the news media, take an Edward Lear break. He makes more sense than they do. |
| Posted by: mom 2010-01-22 14:36 |
| #11 Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live; Their heads are green, and their hands are blue And they went to sea in a sieve. |
| Posted by: Oscar 2010-01-22 14:23 |
| #10 Whistling along... "You see," said she, "he's as tame as tame can be, I'll ride him down the Nile." |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-01-22 13:53 |
| #9 Hi Mom Maplins is an electronics retail franchise in the UK To bodge = to make in a clumsy way Sorry , sometimes my English colloquialisms get the better of me ! |
| Posted by: Oscar 2010-01-22 13:45 |
| #8 Oscar: The slithy toves are gyring and gimboling merrily in the wabe. What are "Maplins" and what does the verb "to bodge" mean? |
| Posted by: mom 2010-01-22 11:41 |
| #7 Share ain't give. This may mean watching degraded videos in a modified ground base. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2010-01-22 10:10 |
| #6 The second most stupid thing I have heard today ... Maybe share first gen UAV , but nothing new . Hell I could probably make a bodge UAV out of stuff from maplins , we all know how much the paks like to bodge .. |
| Posted by: Oscar 2010-01-22 10:06 |
| #5 The second most stupid thing I have heard today ... Maybe share first gen UAV , but nothing new . Hell I could probably make a bodge UAV out of stuff from maplins , we all know how much the paks like to bodge .. |
| Posted by: Oscar 2010-01-22 10:06 |
| #4 The 'Burg article and the linked article at source seem to be different, was it 'pulled' at Dawn? |
| Posted by: Tom--Pa 2010-01-22 08:09 |
| #3 Now that's going to harm IMI sales to China. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-01-22 02:55 |
| #2 I think the 'sharing' part should be limited to air drops of whatever the ordnance crews hang on the pylons. If they want the video feed, call the local taibunnies; they figgered out how to intercept it. |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2010-01-22 01:32 |
| #1 Uh oh. |
| Posted by: mojo 2010-01-22 00:11 |