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Officials Confirm Authenticity of Iranian TV Images Showing Lost U.S. Drone
Fox News ^ | 8 DEC 11 | Jennifer Griffin-Fox

Posted on 12/09/2011 6:32:13 AM PST by Amigo04

Edited on 12/09/2011 6:59:37 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

U.S. officials have confirmed to Fox News that images aired by Iranian state television do in fact show the secret U.S. drone that went down last week in eastern Iran.


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TOPICS: Breaking News
KEYWORDS: drone; iran; rq170
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1 posted on 12/09/2011 6:32:20 AM PST by Amigo04
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To: Amigo04

It looks like a truck delivered it.


2 posted on 12/09/2011 6:36:27 AM PST by ILS21R (Never give up)
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To: Amigo04

They will be flying over Washington.


3 posted on 12/09/2011 6:37:18 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper (Happy Newt Year!)
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To: Amigo04

That this could happen just leaves me speechless. You’d think at the very least they’d have some sort self-destruct mechanism on the thing. That our idiot of a president would not send in people to trash the thing shows how far our present government has dragged us down.


4 posted on 12/09/2011 6:37:44 AM PST by whershey
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To: Amigo04

he was given 3 op choices, go get it, destroy it, or leave it .......... oh great one chose to give it to them


5 posted on 12/09/2011 6:42:54 AM PST by SF_Redux (Sarah stands for accountablility and personal responsiblity, democrats can't live with that)
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To: ILS21R
It looks like a truck delivered it.

Straight from the factory.

6 posted on 12/09/2011 6:44:06 AM PST by ILS21R (Never give up)
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To: Amigo04

Think Russians might have helped?:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2817786/posts


7 posted on 12/09/2011 6:49:34 AM PST by Amigo04
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To: Amigo04

We use the front grills from 1978 Camaros in our drones?


8 posted on 12/09/2011 6:51:23 AM PST by WayneS (Comments now include 25 percent more sarcasm for no additional charge...)
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To: Amigo04

“The official said there are real fears the Iranians will share this technology with the Russians and the Chinese”

Captain Obvious.


9 posted on 12/09/2011 6:52:45 AM PST by lacrew (Mr. Soetoro, we regret to inform you that your race card is over the credit limit.)
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To: ILS21R

It was designed to land on its own if lost.

We delivered it by air.


10 posted on 12/09/2011 6:53:21 AM PST by cripplecreek (Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
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To: Amigo04
"Yep, that's it," one senior official told Fox News. "And it's intact."

I tell ya', THAT guy has amazing powers of observation...

11 posted on 12/09/2011 6:53:21 AM PST by WayneS (Comments now include 25 percent more sarcasm for no additional charge...)
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To: Amigo04

It looks fake to me; the intake vent came off a 1955 Chrysler, and seems smaller in scale (to the folks standing around it) than other images of the craft that were previously leaked/posted. Regardless, Iran has their next PR coup, thanks to our President’s backdoor effort to kiss their backdoor ...


12 posted on 12/09/2011 6:56:30 AM PST by BillyBonebrake
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To: Amigo04
Ahmadinejad to Obama: Thank you for gift of infidel technology Imam Obama. Can you send up the operating manual?
13 posted on 12/09/2011 6:59:39 AM PST by Truth29
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To: SF_Redux
he was given 3 op choices, go get it, destroy it, or leave it .......... oh great one chose to give it to them

Obama......Heads I deny its ours....

.................Tails I ignore it

Senior advisor (to self) ...and your chances of re-election same as the coin landing on it's edge.

14 posted on 12/09/2011 7:00:52 AM PST by spokeshave
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To: WayneS
If that's the real thing, I'm a Obama voter.
15 posted on 12/09/2011 7:03:28 AM PST by GAB-1955 (I write books, serve my country, love my wife and daughter, and believe in the Resurrection.)
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To: Amigo04
On the other hand, unnamed sources told CNN this AM that sat photos show the drone as a pile of rubble ... Also Frank Gafnee was reported to have called the Iranian image “a carnival float ... with drooping wings”.

There are several different images floating around of a UAV designated RQ 170 ...

Either the Iranians have succeeded in placing a mole in the CIA/USAF groups which operate the UAVs, thereby obtaining flight plans, decrypted command codes, auto-destruct overrides, and so on - or the Russian/Chinese have done the same and supplied the info to the Iranians, else it is a huge disinformation campaign ...

16 posted on 12/09/2011 7:05:21 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: P-Marlowe; jazusamo; Lancey Howard; Amigo04

How stupid these officials are. You never confirm or deny the loss of intel. At least you make your enemy hesitant.

Here’s hoping that the downed UAV was a plant with major intentional misdirections in it.

Or, perhaps it was Obama’s gift of a delivery system for Iranian WMDs intentionlly brought to earth fully intact. (Wonder what he’d get in exchange for that? “Impossible!” you say. Now that Fast and Furious proves the Govt will commit murders to injure the 2nd amendment, I’m comfortable believing they’ll give islamics weapons to use against Israel.)


17 posted on 12/09/2011 7:10:25 AM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True Supporters of our Troops PRAY for their VICTORY!)
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To: Amigo04

The drone would be a great way to get more malware onto Iran computers. Load the drone with computer viruses and obsolete or deliberately misleading technology and accidentally crash it.

Even if that wasn’t the case, if you could start the rumor, hopefully the Iranians would get a little nervous about hooking their computers up to the thing.


18 posted on 12/09/2011 7:26:15 AM PST by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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To: Amigo04

You would think it would have a self destruct device for this type of circumstance...


19 posted on 12/09/2011 7:30:28 AM PST by ropin71 (God Bless our Troops!)
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To: Amigo04

Some presidents would not hesitate to destroy it right now.


20 posted on 12/09/2011 7:35:00 AM PST by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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