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Yinpiao Zhou, a Chinese citizen, was arrested Monday and accused of using a drone to photograph the Vandenberg Space Force Base outside Santa Barbara, Calif. Zhou, 39, was charged with failure to register an aircraft not providing transportation and a violation of national defense airspace, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California said in a release. He was arrested at San Francisco International Airport prior to boarding a China-bound flight. Vandenberg’s detection system spotted the drone on Nov. 30. The aircraft flew for nearly an hour, traveled to an altitude of about a mile above ground level...

A 39-year-old Chinese national who resides in Brentwood was arrested moments before boarding a flight to China for flying a drone over and photographing Vandenberg Space Force Base late last month, officials announced Monday. According to a news release from the U.S. Department of Justice, Yinpiao Zhou, a Chinese citizen and lawful permanent resident of the U.S., was arrested Dec. 9 at San Francisco International Airport prior to his flight.

Gov. Rick Perry, a contender for the Republican nomination for U.S. President, lambasted President Barack Obama Sunday for failing to keep a highly valued spy drone from falling into the hands of Iran's armed forces. Perry was referring to a report on Fox news, according to which the US military offered Obama different courses of action for retrieving the drone or destroying it when it came down on Iranian soil last week, but he rejected both options for fear that they would be seen as acts of war. "This president now, with Iran getting one of our predator drones in...

Iran shoots down U.S. spy drone amid growing military pressure www.chinaview.cn 2007-01-17 08:41:25 Special report: Iran Nuclear Crisis by Liang Youchang TEHRAN, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- Iranian troops have shot down a U.S. pilotless spy plane recently, an Iranian lawmaker announced on Tuesday as the Islamic Republic was facing increasing military pressure from its arch rival -- the United States. The aircraft was brought down when it was trying to cross the borders "during the last few days," Seyed Nezam Mola Hoveizeh, a member of the parliament, was quoted by the local Fars News Agency as saying. The lawmaker gave...