Breaking: IAF shoots down drone believed headed for Tel Aviv(?) (Update: Confirmed?)
posted at 12:54 pm on August 7, 2006 by Allahpundit
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Just reported on Fox News. According to Jeff Goldblatt, they shot it down somewhere near Haifa.
DefenseTech has been worried about this for months, calling terror drones “suicide bombers on steroids.”
One question, though: if they’ve finally made the decision to bring on “doomsday” by hitting Tel Aviv, why not do it in spectacular fashion, with a long-range missile?
All right, two questions. Who’d they get the drone from?
Something about this smells fishy to me. Stand by.
Update: Al-Reuters reports. The IDF believes the drone was armed.
Update: Haaretz doesn’t know if it was armed or not. Neither they nor Reuters nor the JPost mentions anything about Tel Aviv either, which is the really incendiary part of this. Fox might have flubbed one.
Update: Or maybe not. In an interview six days ago, the head of Iran’s Expediency Council promised “very difficult days in cities like Tel Aviv.”
Update: The IDF says that while the drone was headed for Israeli territory, it never actually crossed the border.
Update: Oh yes it did, says Ynet.
Update: “Packed with explosives,” says JPost, and notes that the IAF thinks there might have been another launched. Again, though, no mention of Tel Aviv.
Update: Follow the bouncing storyline: IAF official says drone contained no explosives.
Update: Fox is still reporting that the drone was headed for Tel Aviv as of 3 p.m. ET.
Update: Armed? Probably not? Iranian-made? Yep.
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I have wondered when this was going to happen. I think we all know (or deeply suspect) these drones came via Syria from Iran. The HMMIC (the HeadMadMullahInCharge) in Iran is counting the days until the “Hidden One” reappears and follows the grand boulevard the HMMIC just built for him from his cave/well/whatever to downtown Tehran. Provoking a wider war in the ME will pave the way for the chaos needed to bring him out of hiding. This is going to get worse before it gets any better.
labwrs on August 7, 2006 at 1:07 PM
OK, that sucks. I hope there aren’t a lot of those around.
High Desert Wanderer on August 7, 2006 at 1:20 PM
Until Syria and Iran are wiped out, there will be no peace in the Middle East.
januarius on August 7, 2006 at 1:28 PM
From whom did Hezbollah get the drone? I suspect from either the People’s Republic of Russia or the People’s Republic of China. Iran and Syria are their proxies, after all.
What terrifies me is that this drone (drones?) may have been a trial run for something catastrophic on August 22 – the anniversary of Miraj. Will the target be Tel Aviv, Jerusalem or both? Moreover, if this drone was “packed with explosives,” might others be armed with nukes?
Let’s hope the dyplo-dance is a ruse and we have plans on the books to flatten, preemptively, Iran and Syria. If that doesn’t get the attention of the PRR and the PRC, nothing will.
That said, anxiety beyond comprehension is beginning to set in…
Aunt B on August 7, 2006 at 2:22 PM
OK, so it was a false alarm. Nuke ‘em anyway; preventative medicine.
bdfaith on August 7, 2006 at 2:36 PM
bdfaith, right on target.
In the immortal words of Ripley ” we need to nuke the site from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure.”
America1st on August 7, 2006 at 9:24 PM
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