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2011-12-16 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

US drone may have come down in Afghanistan, not Iran

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Posted by Steve White 2011-12-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 Hmm. Maybe it thought it was safe because it landed in Afghanistan, then stopped paying attention. Clumsy.

Posted by gorb 2011-12-16 02:09|| 2011-12-16 02:09|| Front Page Top

#2 Used a captured command link jammer on it?
Is it flown, or does it fly a preprogrammed track? What if it's GPS updates were bogus?
No beacons in the event these things go down hard so they can be recovered?
So many of them flying that there is no OVERLOOK?

I'm thinking a 'GunRunner honeypot'.
Watching C&C light up.

Posted by Skidmark 2011-12-16 07:34|| 2011-12-16 07:34|| Front Page Top

#3 Iranians are the consummate liars. They make the old Soviet propagandists blush.

Posted by Ulose Munster2089 2011-12-16 08:22|| 2011-12-16 08:22|| Front Page Top

#4 The Big Lie Prospers

Posted by Ulose Munster2089 2011-12-16 08:27|| 2011-12-16 08:27|| Front Page Top

#5 Reverse engineering is extremely easy. And Iran has up to date automatic metal lathe devices. Further, there are numerous applications for the type of nano-technology that was captured.

However, in the midst of the 2009 protest in Teheran, BHO pointed to the "events of 1953" as a legitimate grievance of iran's terrorist government. BHO would be more likely to sell drones to those animals than to reverse the catastrophic damage caused.

People are prohibited remote controlled toy-planes near the White House. A country that supplies terrorists with weapons could target the white House, using drone technology. The Post-American president would blame 'fifties US policies, in that event.

Posted by Chesney Gluter6645 2011-12-16 18:58|| 2011-12-16 18:58|| Front Page Top

#6 "Captured by the Taliban ..." > or by the QUDS forces of Iran that cannot be confirmed or denied as being in the Afghanistan by the US, Afghan, + Pak Govts except vee the Locals = Tribals.

* ION NOT-AFGHANISTAN AKA NOT-IRAN, TOPIX > IRAN WARNS IT WILL SHOOT DOWN US DRONES [next time].

Iran doing a Pakistan.

* SAME > IRAN DEMANDS AFGHANISTAN STOP US DRONE FLIGHTS.

* SAME > IRAN ESCALATES DRONE SPAT:US DRONE FLIGHTS [in future] FROM AFGHANISTAN TO BE TREATED AS "HOSTILE ACTS" [acts of war], by Afghanistan agz Iran.

Yoohoo, Afghan ally + BFF INDIA, you're up at bat!?

* SAME > WHY THE COMING WAR WID IRAN IS THE BIGGEST STORY IN THE WORLD.

Besides God = Bible, Nostradamus, 1960's = 1980's Guam Taotamonas + MTV, Texas-sized asteroids, Osama loves Whitney, .....@ etc., etc., etc., etc.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-12-16 23:50|| 2011-12-16 23:50|| Front Page Top

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