AFP has a story about claims by Afghan tribesmen that they shot down a US drone:
Pakistan's army said Wednesday that it was investigating the crash of a suspected unmanned US spy plane near the Afghan border amid claims by tribesmen they had shot it down. The drone crash late Tuesday in the South Waziristan tribal zone, a haven for Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants, came as tensions grew between Washington and Islamabad over US missile strikes and incursions on Pakistani soil.
"A surveillance unmanned aerial vehicle, while flying over the Pak-Afghan border yesterday night, crash-landed on this side of the border... apparently due to malfunctioning," a Pakistani military spokesman said in a statement. "The wreckage of the UAV has been recovered from the site by the security forces personnel and the matter is under detailed investigation." It did not say who the drone belonged to but security officials said it was an American aircraft.
The Pentagon said it had no report of any crash, while the CIA declined to comment. "We have no reports of any loss of DoD drones," said Lieutenant Colonel Mark Wright.
Rico says if you throw enough lead up in the air, you can hit anything... (Remember the Iraqis trying to hit the Stealth bombers over Baghdad? Didn't work, but made for great CNN.)
AFP has a story about claims by Afghan tribesmen that they shot down a US drone:
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