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1 posted on 02/12/2005 5:02:10 PM PST by bamaborn
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Shhhhhh, loose lips and all.

:0)


2 posted on 02/12/2005 5:03:14 PM PST by highlandbreeze
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USA USING 'DRONE' AIRCRAFT TO SPY ON IRAN
Sat Feb 12 2005 20:00:05 ET

The Bush administration has been flying surveillance drones over Iran to seek evidence of nuclear weapons programs and detect weaknesses in air defenses, the WASHINGTON POST is planning to splash on Sunday.

Newsroom sources tell DRUDGE: The small, pilotless planes, penetrating Iranian airspace from U.S. military facilities in Iraq, use radar, video, still photography and air filters designed to pick up traces of nuclear activity to gather information that is not accessible to satellites, the officials said. The aerial espionage is standard in military preparations for an eventual air attack and is also employed as a tool for intimidation.

The Iranian government, using Swiss channels in the absence of diplomatic relations with Washington, formally protested the illegal incursions, according to Iranian, European and U.S. officials, all speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.

Developing...


3 posted on 02/12/2005 5:03:56 PM PST by bamaborn
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USA USING 'DRONE' AIRCRAFT TO SPY ON IRAN
Sat Feb 12 2005 20:00:05 ET

The Bush administration has been flying surveillance drones over Iran to seek evidence of nuclear weapons programs and detect weaknesses in air defenses, the WASHINGTON POST is planning to splash on Sunday.

Newsroom sources tell DRUDGE: The small, pilotless planes, penetrating Iranian airspace from U.S. military facilities in Iraq, use radar, video, still photography and air filters designed to pick up traces of nuclear activity to gather information that is not accessible to satellites, the officials said. The aerial espionage is standard in military preparations for an eventual air attack and is also employed as a tool for intimidation.

The Iranian government, using Swiss channels in the absence of diplomatic relations with Washington, formally protested the illegal incursions, according to Iranian, European and U.S. officials, all speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.

Developing...


4 posted on 02/12/2005 5:04:08 PM PST by jdm (Stockhausen, Kagel, Xenakis -- world capitals or avant-garde composers?)
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To: bamaborn
Welcome to FR.

I should hope so. Tough to destroy nukes if you don't know where they are.

7 posted on 02/12/2005 5:09:22 PM PST by anniegetyourgun
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I hope that we are using these over North Korea too.


8 posted on 02/12/2005 5:10:09 PM PST by NorseWood
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Rash of UFO sitings over Iran lately...


9 posted on 02/12/2005 5:13:22 PM PST by joesnuffy (If GW had been driving....Mary Jo would still be with us...)
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To: bamaborn
I can stop imagining the Ayatollah looking up and seeing this thing and running around screaming "dirka dirka dirka"! (and then I laugh)
12 posted on 02/12/2005 5:17:43 PM PST by Gumption
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good


13 posted on 02/12/2005 5:18:03 PM PST by InvisibleChurch (Look! Jimmy Carter! History's greatest monster!)
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That sounds like a perfect way to give the Iranians some free nukes...


15 posted on 02/12/2005 5:19:56 PM PST by sonofatpatcher2 (Texas, Love & a .45-- What more could you want, campers? };^)
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To: bamaborn

Yea, so?


16 posted on 02/12/2005 5:21:30 PM PST by Andy from Chapel Hill
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Send in the BLACK HELICOPTERS!! The mullahs will sh*t!!!


20 posted on 02/12/2005 5:44:22 PM PST by stboz
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Good catch!


22 posted on 02/12/2005 5:47:01 PM PST by Zechariah11
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I thought Condi had put this speculation to bed on her whirlwind "World Peace Tour" of hostile communist Europe!


24 posted on 02/12/2005 5:49:10 PM PST by claptrap (optional tagline under re-consideration)
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Freedom of the press can be a dangerous thing.


26 posted on 02/12/2005 5:52:19 PM PST by cjmae
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The eagle is watching.


37 posted on 02/12/2005 6:50:44 PM PST by Names Ash Housewares
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Guaranteed this is a planned, measured leak by the White House to send a message to the mullahs.

You can hide but you can't run...

38 posted on 02/12/2005 7:01:18 PM PST by Semper911 (Those who wait also serve.)
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To: bamaborn

Duh!


42 posted on 02/12/2005 8:06:06 PM PST by Zeroisanumber
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19820-2005Feb12.html


43 posted on 02/12/2005 8:28:11 PM PST by bamaborn
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This is news? That we spy on other countries? I would hope so.

Why does the WaPo publish this story? I guess to try & smear Bush in some way. Try to get the White house on the defensive. The MSM is just getting more and more anti American every day. What is their deal?

51 posted on 02/13/2005 6:45:29 AM PST by handy (Forgive me this day, my daily typos...The Truth is not a Smear!)
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Drones sound kind of like mopeds.

I'm always tempted to ask the gusy who run the controls on the drones if I can just play with those controls for five minutes.

It looks like it would be so much fun.

I'd probably crash it into something, though...

52 posted on 02/13/2005 6:50:19 AM PST by Allegra ("They Just Love to Walk in the Middle of the Road!")
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