|
Barack Obama demands Iran return downed US drone
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 2011-12-12 |
| http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=335118 |