Taliban militants say they shot down U.S. Drone

[Little Tich]

Source: Reuters

(Reuters) - A U.S. drone crashed on Saturday in North Waziristan, not far from the Afghan border, Pakistan intelligence officials said, while Taliban militants said they had shot it down.

Taliban militants led by Hafiz Gul Bahadur said they had collected wreckage of the destroyed drone and would provide its pictures to the media on Sunday.

"The drone today in Machikhel was flying at low altitude and our fighters fired at and shot it down," a local commander of the Taliban said. "We have trained people for such type of job."

It is impossible to verify the militants' account and a U.S. official in Washington denied the Taliban had shot down the drone and declined further comment. The CIA, which runs the drone campaign, also declined to comment.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/25/us-pakistan-us-drone-idUSTRE81O0G520120225

[pscot]

1. Taliban militants

seems redundant.

[boppers]

2. They are also a political organization.

Not all Taliban are/were militants, they were also bureaucrats.

[DocMac]

3. We are but a stone's throw away.

I developed the smooth stone that takes down such things.

Then I worked on the human arm that is capable of said destruction.

Yeah...we pulled some muscles, but it was for the better.

Are we not better???