Thursday, July 26, 2012

Secret U.S. Drone Flights Over Somalia Are No Longer Secret


Drone Operations Over Somalia Pose Danger To Air Traffic, U.N. Report Says -- Washington Post

The skies over Somalia have become so congested with drones that the unmanned aircraft pose a danger to air traffic and potentially violate a long-standing arms embargo against the war-torn country, according to United Nations officials.

In a recently completed report, U.N. officials describe several narrowly averted disasters in which drones crashed into a refu­gee camp, flew dangerously close to a fuel dump and almost collided with a large passenger plane over Mogadishu, the capital.

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My Comment: There is some humor in this story .... everyone is officially denying that they have drones flying over Somalia ....even as crashes and near crashes are occurring at the same time.

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