U.S. military drone surveillance is expanding to hot spots beyond declared combat zones

By Craig Whitlock, Published: July 21 E-mail the writer

The steel-gray U.S. Air Force Predator drone plunged from the sky, shattering on mountainous terrain near the Iraq-Turkey border. For Kurdish guerrillas hiding nearby, it was an unexpected gift from the propaganda gods.

Fighters from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, filmed the charred wreckage on Sept. 18 and posted

לצפייה במקור באתר YouTube, לחצו כאן.. A narrator bragged unconvincingly that the group had shot down the drone. But for anyone who might doubt that the flying robot was really American, the video zoomed in on mangled parts stamped in English and bearing the label of the manufacturer, San Diego-based General Atomics.

[התמונה הבאה מגיעה מקישור שלא מתחיל ב https ולכן לא הוטמעה בדף כדי לשמור על https תקין: http://www.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_296w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2013/07/21/National-Security/Graphics/w-drones-syria-turkey.jpg]

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