Iran captures American drone in its airspace, U.S. denies
Iran captures American drone in its airspace, U.S. denies.
Tuesday, 04 December 2012
Iran captured a U.S. drone that was flying in the country’s airspace, its media reported on Tuesday, a claim that was quickly denied by the U.S. Navy.
No U.S. drone has been lost in the Gulf recently, a U.S. Navy spokesman said after Iran said on Tuesday it had captured a U.S. intelligence-gathering drone in its airspace in the last few days.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) said a ScanEagle drone was gathering information over the Gulf and had entered Iranian airspace when it was “captured”.
“The U.S. Navy has fully accounted for all unmanned air vehicles (UAV) operating in the Middle East region. Our operations in the Gulf are confined to internationally recognized water and air space,” a spokesman for U.S. Naval Forces Central Command in Bahrain said.
“We have no record that we have lost any ScanEagles recently.”
Fars agency said the drone was captured sometime “in the last few days.” It was not clear how it was captured.
“These kinds of aircraft are normally launched from large ships,” said Ali Fadavi, the IRGC’s naval commander, according to Fars.
The ScanEagle is manufactured by Boeing Co. According to the firm’s website, the drone is four feet long and has a 10-foot (three-meter) wingspan.
In November, the United States said Iranian warplanes shot at a U.S. surveillance drone flying in international airspace. Iran said the aircraft had entered its airspace, and said it would respond “decisively” to any foreign encroachments into its airspace.
Also last month, Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations, Mohammad Khazaee, wrote to Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon to complain about repeated U.S. violations of Iranian airspace, describing them as “illegal and provocative acts.”
Khazaee claimed that U.S. craft had entered southern Iran seven times in October around Bushehr where Iran’s only nuclear power station is situated.
The United States and Iran are locked in an ongoing dispute over Tehran’s nuclear program. The U.S. and its allies believe Tehran is trying to develop an atomic bomb, while Iran says its program is purely peaceful.
Israel has threatened to bomb Iran’s nuclear sites if diplomacy and sanctions fail to stop its nuclear activities.
In October, Israel shot down an Iranian-made drone launched into the Jewish state by Lebanese Islamist group Hezbollah.
WarSclerotic 
December 5, 2012 at 12:05 AM
Bizzare reports coming out of the US about Russian and Polish truck drivers dissapearing, many apparently with military and some spetsnaz training, reports from FEMA employees. Off topic and probably rubbish but I thought I would post it.
December 5, 2012 at 1:38 AM
why truck drivers,maybe they were not truck drivers to start with,maybe they were spetsnaz to start with,very convenient way of moving your special ops personal round,and the russians planed to do this in the cold war,somethings going on in the uk,theres been a lot of buzzing about for about 2 weeks,as for the drone,the iranians are idiots,Its a commercial drone used for surveying forestry ect and at sea usually used for SAR and tracking fish shoals and stocks..i will make you fishes of men or in this case the IRG
December 5, 2012 at 1:57 AM
The UK military are closing all bases from mid December till 7 Jan, all soldiers, marines, airmen to ‘work from home’
December 5, 2012 at 2:02 AM
In a move that former military commanders say is unprecedented, a leaked memo from a general says all military and civilian personnel in land forces — amounting to 110,000 men and women — are to take “block leave” for 25 days from December 14 until January 7.
December 5, 2012 at 2:03 AM
Richard Kemp, a former commander of UK ground forces in Afghanistan, said he had ”never come across anything similar in 25 years of military service.”
December 5, 2012 at 2:06 AM
Sorry for spamming, just getting this in.
British Army has ordered their bases ”evacuated” for 25 days from December 14 until January 7.
residents who live in the area of Oahu where Obama and his family vacation have been told that the usual restrictions on their movements during an Obama stay will be in place for 21 days, from December 17 through January 6.
Yahoo has announced that their public chat rooms will be closed beginning December 14.
December 5, 2012 at 2:16 AM
what do you reckon to all this JW,
December 5, 2012 at 12:25 AM
Methinks something is afoot.
December 5, 2012 at 12:30 AM
Steve… You may be right. Just remember how many times you felt this way before. After 3 years, I’m from the ” show me” state.
December 5, 2012 at 1:04 AM
So what do you all think will happen?
December 5, 2012 at 1:13 AM
defense… Anyone who answers you is either a liar or a blowhard. NOBODY knows what going to happen that would post here.
December 5, 2012 at 1:15 AM
True
December 5, 2012 at 1:49 AM
Thats what is really worrying no ones talking,who might know,and there usually the loudest voices if you think about it,but theres something like a foreboding sense and you wonder about the Timewave theory,and its mother the chaos theory,no one knows the future
December 5, 2012 at 2:00 AM
McKenna’s timewave? Justice. who the hell ARE you?
Please email me at joseph at wouk.net
December 5, 2012 at 5:38 AM
Novel idea…but don’t wait for the zero state.
December 5, 2012 at 2:30 PM
I done a few gigs with McKenna in the 90s he could talk,trouble was he was always waisted,his time wave theory he explained it over a few hours and days,i did not get thats much of it at first,but it was very coherent,he told me he had all the notes, millions of them so it cold be proved,the russians took it really seriously,and them in a mysterious fire all his notes and working outs were destroyed,i believe this was the work of the SVR FSB,which is a shame because it means thats the theory cant be tested unless someone does all the research and equations notes again,What is saw was a graph in a first gen laptop,all the dates coincided with the timeline of man and the squiggly line of the graph,i never thought about it much again untill recently
December 5, 2012 at 2:56 PM
What is this timewave theory?
December 5, 2012 at 3:13 AM
ok doing it now just do you know its me,i will leave the last two words of the header here top 1974 album title……On Broadway..
December 5, 2012 at 2:19 PM
i maild you at 315 am your time
December 5, 2012 at 6:02 AM
What I truly like about your blog, JW, is our little community. We all seem to guide each other to a greater state of awareness. Are we headed in the right direction? Who knows. Are we evolving fast enough. Again, who knows. All I know is that collectively we’re sharing information, exchanging ideas, and developing explanations for the apparant mess we’re all swept into today. I think I can speak for everyone that none of us enjoy a feeling of helplessness and all of us want more control over our fate. Let’s keep it up guys.
December 5, 2012 at 1:51 PM
Serbia’s Ambassador to NATO commits suicide in Brussels, apparently he had files on a Dutch general, link with Dutch patriots going into Turkey?
December 5, 2012 at 2:44 PM
SVR FSB HIT
December 5, 2012 at 2:51 PM
its hard to believe someone like that would throw themselves off a rooftop,yet he did
December 5, 2012 at 2:53 PM
Milinkovic was at the Brussels airport to receive Serbian Deputy Foreign Minister Zoran Vujicm, who was due in the Belgian capital for NATO talks along with other officials. After the delegation arrived, they walked through the parking lot to their cars, and Milinkovic suddenly broke from the group, walked over to the barrier and jumped, an anonymous official said.
“I met with him [Milinkovic] yesterday afternoon, I didn’t notice anything strange, he seemed in a perfectly good mood,” an anonymous source told Italian publication La Stampa. “I knew him well, this doesn’t make any sense, it’s totally inexplicable.”