On December 4, Iran captured a United States Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) while it was allegedly flying over Iranian airspace on a spying and surveillance mission of Iran's nuclear facilities. Iran claims that they captured the aircraft mid-air by shooting it down and/or hacking its electronic controls and landing it. On December 8, Iran released a video showing what appears to be an extremely intact RQ-170 Sentinel. On December 12, the United States requested the drone be returned, but a day later, the request was refused. Iran has said that it plans to reverse-engineer the aircraft's technologies, which include stealth and radar-evading capabilities, communications interception equipment and highly sensitive surveillance sensors that are believed to be able of detecting trace amounts of nuclear material. It is a distinct possibility and concern that Iran can reverse-engineer at least some of these technologies, use them against the United States and our allies, such as Israel; share them with its allies that are hostile to the United States, such as North Korea; or share them with our own questionable allies, such as China and Pakistan. With the refusal of the request for return, it is uncertain now what America's next step will be: whether the United States will permit it to remain in Iranian hands or if an attempt will be made at some sort of rescue or demolition mission with special forces operatives or airstrikes. RQ-170 drones have been used in Afghanistan to support operations there and was used to gather intelligence prior to and during Operation Neptune Spear, the mission that killed Osama Bin Laden.
Kim Jong Il, the supreme court leader of Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (otherwise known as DPRK), died Saturday December 17, 2011 of a heart attack on a train to an area outside Pyongyang. Throughout his career in politics he’s been General Secretary of The Workers Party of Korea, Chairman of the National Defense Commission of North Korea, and the Supreme Commander of the Korean’s North People Army. His son, Kim Jong Un, is the heir of his father’s position as court leader and will take his place as the DPRK. Un has hardly any experience in this position and many people are skeptical on whether he’ll be any better than his father.
Republican Representative Elton Gallegly of California will not seek re-election and plans to retire at the end of his term, his office announced Saturday.(January 7,2012)
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On December 4, Iran captured a United States Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) while it was allegedly flying over Iranian airspace on a spying and surveillance mission of Iran's nuclear facilities. Iran claims that they captured the aircraft mid-air by shooting it down and/or hacking its electronic controls and landing it. On December 8, Iran released a video showing what appears to be an extremely intact RQ-170 Sentinel. On December 12, the United States requested the drone be returned, but a day later, the request was refused. Iran has said that it plans to reverse-engineer the aircraft's technologies, which include stealth and radar-evading capabilities, communications interception equipment and highly sensitive surveillance sensors that are believed to be able of detecting trace amounts of nuclear material. It is a distinct possibility and concern that Iran can reverse-engineer at least some of these technologies, use them against the United States and our allies, such as Israel; share them with its allies that are hostile to the United States, such as North Korea; or share them with our own questionable allies, such as China and Pakistan. With the refusal of the request for return, it is uncertain now what America's next step will be: whether the United States will permit it to remain in Iranian hands or if an attempt will be made at some sort of rescue or demolition mission with special forces operatives or airstrikes. RQ-170 drones have been used in Afghanistan to support operations there and was used to gather intelligence prior to and during Operation Neptune Spear, the mission that killed Osama Bin Laden.
Kim Jong Il, the supreme court leader of Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (otherwise known as DPRK), died Saturday December 17, 2011 of a heart attack on a train to an area outside Pyongyang. Throughout his career in politics he’s been General Secretary of The Workers Party of Korea, Chairman of the National Defense Commission of North Korea, and the Supreme Commander of the Korean’s North People Army. His son, Kim Jong Un, is the heir of his father’s position as court leader and will take his place as the DPRK. Un has hardly any experience in this position and many people are skeptical on whether he’ll be any better than his father.
Republican Representative Elton Gallegly of California will not seek re-election and plans to retire at the end of his term, his office announced Saturday.(January 7,2012)
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