Amid new tensions with Iran, Iran has shot down a drone over territory

[kpete]

Iran 'shoots down unmanned plane'

From correspondents in Tehran

April 09, 2006

IRAN had shot down an unmanned surveillance plane in the south amid reports that the United States is planning military strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, a press report said today.

"This plane had taken off from Iraq and was filming border areas," a report in the hardline Jumhuri Eslami newspaper said.

It added the Islamic Republic "officials have obtained information from the plane system and recordings", without giving any further details.

US publications reported over the weekend that the White House was studying options for military strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities to pressure Tehran to abandon its controversial nuclear program.

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http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story/0,20281,18766793-5001028,00.html

[Skink]

1. They'll pay for this.

[movonne]

8. I wonder how they will pay, by attacking them, then what they will do

attack us, as I have read they have cells here in the u.s.that are ready to go...and what about china and russia, what would you think they would do.

[Cooley Hurd]

2. Have any other agencies confirmed this?

I read leftchick's LBN thread earlier, and it used the same source.

Could this be the coming conflict's "Gulf of Tonkin?"

Fuck...:scared: and K&R...

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. gulf of Tonkin came from us

this is comming from them

[Cooley Hurd]

5. Iran shot down a drone, possibly ours...

...possibly put there by us to provoke a bigger conflict. Kinda like the Gulf of Tonkin incident, don't you think?:shrug:

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. Rumor has it we have been flying

these spy missions since the beginning of the year... this is the law of averages catching up to us.

Under the very strict definition of a state of war between two nations, guess what.... we are at war.

Also the Ton kin incident involved PEOPLE... drones have a guidance system, but that is it... hard to get excited over a machine. Also... why are we flying them planes? Any International Lawyer worth his or her salt will point out... this is not provocation but an act of war.

[subterranean]

9. Good enough for the bushites

Shooting down one of our freedom-loving unmanned drones will be a good enough pretext to bomb Iran in "retaliation". And anyway, since when has Bush ever cared about international law? Or domestic law, for that matter.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. And for all them Du'ers arguing whether we will go to war

with Iran, suffice it to say that flying a Predator over Iranian territory, presumably on an Intel gathering mission... IS AN ACT OF WAR.

[European Socialist]

6. This is war!!! Cheney will say. They hate drones for their freedom.