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| Africa Horn |
| Somali rebels claim shooting down US drone |
| 2009-10-20 |
| Somali insurgents shot down a US drone aircraft flying over the southern port of Kismayo on Monday and were searching for the wreckage, a spokesman for the Shahaab insurgent group said. "We fired at an American plane spying for information over Kismayo. Our forces targeted the plane and shot it and we saw the plane burning. We think it fell into the sea," said Sheikh Hassan Yacqub. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 Shot it down with what? Surely the thing was flying high enough to thumb its nose at just about anything insurgents could possibly bring to bear. |
| Posted by: gorb 2009-10-20 23:04 |
| #5 More likely the Somali jihadis are imitating the Paleostinian press release jihad on account of total impotence against the real thing. |
| Posted by: ed 2009-10-20 14:59 |
| #4 If the US were flying drones over Somalia, I doubt they'd be flown low enough for the Somalis to shoot them down. I'd suspect the launch of a Global Hawk. Predators/Reapers would only be flown if there was a target to use it against. I wonder if they shot down another kite... |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2009-10-20 14:52 |
| #3 It wasn't shot down, it landed on a submarine ... |
| Posted by: Steve White 2009-10-20 08:44 |
| #2 He was my wingman, but I counted 9 chutes. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-10-20 05:05 |
| #1 And they killed all aboard. Anymore exciting stories? The fact remains that they are almost totally helpless against these weapons. |
| Posted by: Richard of Oregon 2009-10-20 04:47 |
