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The U.S. government lost a spy drone over Iran. Is it part of an ongoing covert war?
Either Iranian forces shot it down or it fell out of the sky. We may never know which, but now the Obama administration wants it back. Iran says no.
This is not analogous to kids who accidentally throw a baseball into a neighbors yard and ask for it back. The U.S. has been making war sounds in Irans direction for years, and these belligerent noises have grown louder.
While there are grounds for believing the U.S. military does not want to attack Iran, which is far larger and more populous than Iraq and would require a long, bloody involvement throughout the region, President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton insist that all options are on the table.
Read more: http://www.connectsavannah.com/news/article/105414/
Hugabear
(10,340 posts)Don't have the article handy, but they supposedly took advantage of a known security flaw with the GPS tracking program, and were able to trick the drone into thinking it was landing at its base in Afghanistan.
Freddie Stubbs
(29,853 posts)Muskypundit
(717 posts)Lol...
KansDem
(28,498 posts)We were so afraid the commies would take Vietnam, then all of SE Asia and Australia, and soon they'd be marching down MainStreetUSA.
Now we buy their products and services on MainStreetUSA.
Catherina
(35,568 posts)

The clock is ticking. What madness.
tabatha
(18,795 posts)I don't know how many times this charge has been posted with no new information.
spanone
(141,846 posts)bad writing too