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2008-09-23 India-Pakistan

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Posted by john frum 2008-09-23 15:15|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 I don't have the link handy but a recent review established that nearly all US military UAV crashes have been due to human error rather than hostile fire. Just something to keep in mind when you read accounts like this.

Posted by lotp 2008-09-23 16:21|| 2008-09-23 16:21|| Front Page Top

#2 If verified, it apparently would be the first time a pilotless aircraft was brought down over Pakistan and likely would add to tensions between Washington and Islamabad over recent American cross-border incursions into the country's lawless tribal regions.

The three officials said the aircraft was hit at the village of Jalal Khel in South Waziristan after circling the area for several hours. Wreckage was strewn on the ground, they said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media.

Posted by tu3031 2008-09-23 17:00|| 2008-09-23 17:00|| Front Page Top

#3 More...

"A pilotless spy plane, we believe it is US, crashed in Pakistani territory but it did not disintegrate. Tribesmen picked it up and then Pakistani security forces retrieved it," a senior Pakistani security official told AFP.

"No firing was heard in the area so there is no question of it being shot down," he said.

Residents however said that the plane was shot down. "The tribesmen fired at the drone and it fell out of the sky," one resident told AFP by telephone, asking not to be named for fear of reprisals.

Posted by tu3031 2008-09-23 17:15|| 2008-09-23 17:15|| Front Page Top

#4 I hope none of the nuclear fuel rods have begun to leak.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-09-23 17:18|| 2008-09-23 17:18|| Front Page Top

#5 Unlikely.

Posted by Last Breath Farm Resident 2008-09-23 17:57|| 2008-09-23 17:57|| Front Page Top

#6 Not a drone, but Cargo. Time for a new religion in Pakistan. Cargo! Cargo!

Posted by Chuck Simmins">Chuck Simmins 2008-09-23 22:10|| http://northshorejournal.org]">[http://northshorejournal.org] 2008-09-23 22:10|| Front Page Top

#7 Not quite, Chuck. If this was a cargo cult then the savages would be making totems out of rock in the shape of Predators and praying to their moon gods to have the hellfire missiles return.

Posted by Ho Chi Hupailing9508 2008-09-23 22:56|| 2008-09-23 22:56|| Front Page Top

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