General: No Air Force Planes Lost in Iran

[AGENDA21]

Spy planes that Iran claims to have shot down over its territory were not operated by the U.S. Air Force, a top American general said Thursday. Maj. Gen. Allen G. Peck also played down Pentagon planning for air strikes on Iran, calling it routine.

Iran's Farsi-language daily Jomhouri Islami reported Sunday that Iran had downed an unmanned spy plane flying in its airspace near the border with southern Iraq.

Peck, the deputy commander of U.S. Air Force operations in the Iraq and Afghanistan theaters, said no unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, that fly in the region had gone missing.

"All of my UAVs are accounted for," Peck said in an interview with The Associated Press. "I know where they all are and none of them are on the ground in Iran."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/04/13/international/i114014D48.DTL

[Poll_Blind]

1. Thank you, General. I'm sure many people believe you. People like:

Your buddies. Your dawg. I'm sure there are others.

PB

[Kagemusha]

2. ...Does anyone but the USAF have UAV's on the US side?

The carefully crafted denial here really makes me wonder.

[wakeme2008]

5. CIA

:grr:

http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/systems/armed-predator.htm

[benburch]

3. Other nations use UAVs...

As does the US Navy.

So he might be telling the truth, and the Iranians might too.

[wakeme2008]

4. Well General how about the CIA

"not operated by the U.S. Air Force"

:grr:

[Jack from Charlotte]

7. or those now flying under Iraqi colors. *

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[Iblis]

6. maybe it was painted in UN colors and markings... (n/t)

eom

[Neil Lisst]

8. Shell and Pea game. They're CIA operated unmanned aircraft.