Iran shoots down U.S. spy drone amid growing military pressure

Xinhua ^ | 01/17/07 | Liang Youchang

[TigerLikesRooster]

If Chia Head sets off his nuke before presumed Iran strike, would it affect the schedule?

[unkus]

Ping

[Gay State Conservative]

It's not hard to tell which side China's on in this case.

[GAB-1955]

Duh. That's why we send drones. I seem to recall we sent a few into Iraq before the invasion, too.

[BIGLOOK]

MI ping

UAV ferret?

[advertising guy]

in lew of that I bet IRAN has a 10 to the square root of 100 pucker power about now.

[VeniVidiVici]

Wonder if the Chechens or Georgians need any "defensive weapons"?

[Graybeard58]

It's not hard to tell which side China's on in this case.

And Russia.

[SevenofNine]

PROBABLY Tiger

[AndyJackson]

Cheap intelligence on Iran's new $1 B air defense missile system.

[Centurion2000]

"We have delivered modern short-range Tor-M1 air defense systems to Iran. We are developing our cooperation with Iran based on the provisions of international law and if Iran needs to procure defense weapons, we are ready for such cooperation," Ivanov

And they paid CASH, and American jets never get inside the range of these things before they kill them. - Ivanov's unspoken thoughts.

[Prost1]

It sounds like Gates is more militaristic than Rumsfeld.

I am sure Dick Durbin is greatly troubled.

[TheHound]

Sorry, but those drones were on a diplomatic mission, and we want the pieces back.

[Cicero]

If an Iranian says they shot down a spy plane, it might be true, or it might not. Xinhua is just reporting what they were told.

It certainly wouldn't surprise me that we were sending drones over Iran. And probably maneuvering a few of our spy satellites over that part of the world, where they probably sit a lot of the time anyway.

[EQAndyBuzz]

"Wonder if the Chechens or Georgians need any "defensive weapons"?"

Probably. But putting a military base with defensive weapons in Poland and several other countries in the old Soviet Union would increase the pucker factor.

[norton]

"Iranian troops have shot down a U.S. pilotless spy plane..."

Sounds like a breakthrough in honest reporting to me:

Tin Pot dictatorships, and the US media, typically report the same event as "US B-2 (or F117/B-1/ B-52/F-16 etc.) shot down by members of the People's Salvation Defense Party"
(using locally developed and very secret wonder weapons purchased at discount from China).

Oddly omitting the occasional 737 the HAVE destroyed.

I'll consider this to be a lessening of tensions, until they roll over or we nuke them.

[DustyMoment]

Well, I feel warned!!

[lindalew2]

Register women for the draft too.

[bruinbirdman]

"If an Iranian says they shot down a spy plane, it might be true, or it might not. Xinhua is just reporting what they were told. "

Perceptive. Only references to this shoot is from Xinhua, Peoples Daily Online, and Center for Research on Globalization parroting ChiCom propaganda.

yitbos

[Sooth2222]

Drones are impossible to hear and just about impossible to see or detect with radar. The chances that the Iranians actually shot one down are pretty close to zero. More likely one crashed due to a mechanical malfunction or it wasn't a US drone they found pieces of. (I don't stay in Holiday Inns any more, but I do watch the Discovery Channel!)