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Iraqis shoot down Predator...
Iraqi aircraft shot down a U.S. unmanned surveillance drone over southern Iraq Monday, American military officials said. The Predator drone was conducting a reconnaissance mission, a senior official with U.S. Central Command said. Iraqi fighter aircraft penetrated the southern no-fly zone over the country and fired on the Predator, and its controllers then lost contact with the plane, the official said. ``This action is the latest chapter in a lengthy list of hostile acts by the Iraqi regime,'' said Jim Wilkinson, a Central Command spokesman. Central Command is the U.S. military command that oversees operations in Iraq and the surrounding countries. That's interesting. Usually they can't coax the Iraqi Air Force off the ground. Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2002-12-23 |
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