Posted on 09/13/2004 4:20:30 AM PDT by CarrotAndStick
Members of Shura Council of Mujahedeen show US army’s remote-controlled drone that they shot down in Fallujah, Iraq, on Sunday. (AP Photo)
US military has reported no such loss near the embattled Iraqi city.
“In proud Fallujah, thanks be to God, a spying American plane was shot down,'' said a statement signed by the Tawhid and Jihad group and posted on the Internet on Monday. The message's authenticity could not be confirmed, but it appeared on a Website known for carrying statements by Islamic militant groups.
Tawhid and Jihad is linked to the al-Qaeda terror network and led by the Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. It claimed responsibility for the series of attacks on US and Iraqi government targets on Sunday, one of the heaviest days of fighting in Iraq since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein last year.
On Sunday, a previously unknown group, the Shura Council of the Mujahedeen (holy warriors) in Iraq, claimed to have shot down a US. Marine drone near Fallujah in a video tape broadcast on Al-Arabiya satellite television.
Neither claim said when the drone was downed.
The US military has not reported the loss of any drone in Iraq in recent days. But Associated Press Television News filmed people dancing in Fallujah's streets on Sunday, holding what appeared to be pieces of an aircraft bearing the word “Marines.''
The US military did not provide any information.
In its Monday statement, Tawhid and Jihad boasted that it fired about 400 rockets at 50 targets on Sunday, when at least 60 people died in Iraq – 37 in Baghdad alone.
Some of the casualties were inflicted when a US helicopter fired on a crowd cheering around a disabled US armoured vehicle in Baghdad.
“For the first time, there was no failure in the firing or targeting of any rocket, which is a precedent, thanks be only to God,'' the message said.
The statement hailed Sunday's offensive as a “blessed battle'' that “humiliated the infidels.'' It took responsibility for attacks in Fallujah and Ramadi, two cities west of Baghdad.
Tawhid and Jihad, which means monotheism and holy war, has been at the forefront of the opposition to the U.S.-led forces in Iraq and has claimed responsibility for the kidnapping and beheading of several foreigners.
US authorities consider its leader, al-Zarqawi, to be an ally of al-Qaida commander Osama bin Laden but say he runs his own terrorist operation.
Bump!
Is there a tracking beacon on this thing?
Or self detonation device to blow it up?
Yeah, there all a bunch of baby killing war criminals. /sarcasm
This is why I love FreeRepublic.com, even though I am a couple hours late to this thread I noticed the WW2 markings right off and I was just going through all the posts to see if anyone else picked up on this. Way to go eagle eye.
They're so proud of themselves, they're all wearing masks. Sniveling cowards. Losers.
Oh yeah now I see the stripe in the middle but it looks white to me. Now that I think about it does anyone else think that those look like parts from an AGM-86 ACLM cruise missle?
they are such cowards to wear maskes....if they truly believe in what they believe in, why do they cover their faces?
Boeing ScanEagle UAV
ScanEagle is a low-cost, long-endurance UAV developed and built by Boeing and The Insitu Group. Able to loiter over trouble spots for 15+ hours, ScanEagle vehicles can provide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance data or communications relay support. As standard payload ScanEagle carries either an inertially stabilized electro-optical or infrared camera. The UAV is four-feet long and has a 10-foot wingspan.
http://www.boeing.com/companyoffices/gallery/images/military/unmanned/dvd-793-2.html
http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/military/unmanned/scaneagle.html
Those terrorists look like a bunch of "Mucha Lucha" a-holes!
I had Dan Ratherstupid's CommieBS News on this evening to hear his mea culpa about the forged Air Guard memos. It never came; he still stands by the long disproven documents.
SeeBS DID air footage of wounded children. Unfortunately this was not footage from the Belsan terrorist attack, that footage is "too" shocking to keep on the air as they kept the Columbine and Abu Ghraib stories on the air for 2 weeks.
The way they are posed behind it, makes me think they are about to "be-head" it or something.
Folks, there are nine men in that photo... many or all of them may already be dead after today's strike.
Photo cracks me up. Really how proud they are... maybe this is a psyops setup to make them look like total fools.
If you like this stuff, also Google "swarming warfare"... the idea / science of sending tiny little things that act like a swarm of bees against your adversary. Also research SAGEM Sperwer to see one of the latest, powerful UAV implementations.
Bingo! Identify your enemy and destroy!
The gods must be crazy...
I just hope the pilot is ok.
Boeing ScanEagle UAV
I believe you are right.
Also, if equipped with IR camera, may have been a night mission, and it ran out of go juice before it could find its way home.
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