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US ATTACKS UNMANNED PREDATOR HELLFIRE MISSILE
KBS01 - 20021105 - WASHINGTON, DC, UNITED STATES : (FILES) This 21 February 2001 US Air Force file photo obtained 05 November 2002 shows an unmanned predator aerial vehicle with a hellfire missile attached. Iraqi aircraft and anti-aircraft artillery shot down an unmanned US drone over the south of the country, a military spokesman said 23 December 2002, quoted by the state INA news agency. "The sky eagles and the courageous men manning anti-aircraft artillery downed a US Predator reconnaissance aircraft which flew in from Kuwaiti airspace to violate our airspace," the spokesman said. "The US reconnaisance plane was carrying out a precise and planned mission over southern Iraq" when it was shot down, he added. EPA PHOTO AFPI/US AIR FORCE/US AIR FORCE/kb/jim/jim, mc
US ATTACKS UNMANNED PREDATOR HELLFIRE MISSILE
KBS01 - 20021105 - WASHINGTON, DC, UNITED STATES : (FILES) This 21 February 2001 US Air Force file photo obtained 05 November 2002 shows an unmanned predator aerial vehicle with a hellfire missile attached. Iraqi aircraft and anti-aircraft artillery shot down an unmanned US drone over the south of the country, a military spokesman said 23 December 2002, quoted by the state INA news agency. "The sky eagles and the courageous men manning anti-aircraft artillery downed a US Predator reconnaissance aircraft which flew in from Kuwaiti airspace to violate our airspace," the spokesman said. "The US reconnaisance plane was carrying out a precise and planned mission over southern Iraq" when it was shot down, he added. EPA PHOTO AFPI/US AIR FORCE/US AIR FORCE/kb/jim/jim, mc