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| Barack Obama demands Iran return downed US drone |
| 2011-12-12 |
| I've been waiting for this. Now Iran can conduct a 3 way auction with the US, China and Russia. President Barack Obama on Monday acknowledged a US drone was in Iranian hands for the first time and said the United States has asked Tehran to return the sophisticated spy aircraft. "We've asked for it back. We'll see how the Iranians respond," Obama said at a news conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. So he didn't 'demand'... It was the first open confirmation by the Obama administration that Iran was in possession of the drone, which Tehran says it brought down as the plane was flying over the country's territory. Obama, however, shed no further light on the plane's mission or why it failed to return to a base in Afghanistan. "With respect to the drone inside of Iran, I'm not going to comment on intelligence matters that are classified," he said. The bat-winged RQ-170 Sentinel, designed to evade radar for surveillance flights, was on a CIA mission when it went missing, US officials, speaking anonymously, have said previously. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #5 Wake me when Bambi does anything besides whine. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2011-12-12 23:38 |
| #4 ION TEHRAN TIMES > IRAN DEMANDS AFGHANISTAN EXPLANATION ABOUT US DRONE, i.e. why it entered Iranian Airspace via their country. WHY, KABUL, WHY - spelled W-I-I-I - WHY, D *** YOU!? versus * SAME > [US-led] WEST CANNOT PROVOKE ANOTHER REGIONAL CRISIS, EX-FOREIGN MINSTER [Ali Akbar Velayati], as the same are not handling or reacting well to the chaos wrought by the crises the US-West have already induced. IIUC, VELAYATI = THE US-WEST CAN GIVE/DISH IT OUT TO OTHERS, BUT THEY THEMSELVES CAN'T TAKE IT. US-West "Talking the Talk, but N-O-T able to Walk the Walk"??? and * BHARAT RAKSHAK > {Asia Times] IRAN LOOKS TO ITS ALLIES, i.e. Russia + China for anti-US critical support + response in wake of Drone shootdown = incident. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-12-12 21:19 |
| #3 Did Obummer try stomping his indecisive feet? |
| Posted by: gorb 2011-12-12 19:31 |
| #2 Papa drone - in between rounds of golf, and of fund-raising - asks for return of baby drone. |
| Posted by: Lone Ranger 2011-12-12 19:09 |
| #1 After Jan. 2013, I predict Barack Obama will have a second career peddling impotence drugs. |
| Posted by: Slatle Bumble5851 2011-12-12 19:01 |