Posted on 12/23/2011 7:06:12 AM PST by SeekAndFind
On December 8, 2011, Iran displayed to the world what they claimed was an American RQ-170 Sentinel stealth drone captured by Iranian forces. The story of how it was captured, as told by Iran, seems fanciful. The story told by U.S. officials is not much better. Questions about the loss are many. How could this happen? Was it equipment failure? Operator error? Old-fashioned incompetence? Did Obama wimp out, or was it a purposeful surrender of advanced U.S. technology and intelligence data?
Iran claims that it hijacked the drone by confusing its GPS coordinates and instructing it to land safely inside Iranian territory. UAVs like the RQ-170 Sentinel are constructed with classified materials and covered with advanced stealth coatings. The B-2 Bomber has a 172-foot wingspan and a radar cross-section about the size of a dragonfly or hummingbird. The Sentinel is estimated to be less than half the size of the B-2. Finding it -- much less controlling its encrypted GPS systems -- would be an ambitious task for any hi-tech nation. Much less Iran.
Yet Iran does have it -- and all the secrets it contains. Most likely, targeting data and reconnaissance intel regarding Iran's nuclear and military facilities. Information desperately needed by Israel. And information that the Iranians now have.
President Barack Obama was presented with three options to make sure that the Sentinel did not fall into Iranian hands. Strangely, he rejected all three.
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It hasn’t really been all that stealthy.
I used to be the kind of person that would dismiss statements like this as crazy conspiracy theories.
Then Fast and Furious happened.
In this one instance, he has been a man of his word.
I used to be the kind of person that would dismiss statements like this as crazy conspiracy theories.
Then Fast and Furious happened.
I do not believe the drone event was an accident, any more than the lesbian Navy kiss was random...Hussein *HATES* America, liberty, the Constitution, capitalism, and Judeo-Christian traditions. Hates them.
Which is why we must elect someone else next November. For all their flaws, none of our people hate this nation.
Did you forget Bill Clinton’s gifting of the Chinese with advanced missile technology? Those were acts of espionage and treason that should have landed him in prison or worse. In Bill Clinton’s case it was probably for money instead of ideology but that doesn’t make it any better.
http://artistmarket.com/writers/piraino/clintonchina.htm
One needs to bomb main cities in Iran, starting w/ specific regime related targets, start with top locations of Tehran. It will be done sooner or later anyway. It simply needs a good excuse. All mullahs, their regime, their military & terrorist training centers inclusive of seminaries in Qom, and all those who own & live in north of Tehran need to go. They are too far gone & too in favor of the regime in Iran to change their tune. Iranian interests & mullah-related-by-proxy assets in Dubai & Abu Dabi should be monitored. Many Iranians there have US or British passports.
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And nobody was around to mash the “Mission Impossible” destruct button!
What total incompetance all the way from the flight controller up to Zer0.
Thanks SeekAndFind. Apropos of nothing...
Oh, that big 1982 Siberian explosion? [William Safire]
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