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Strategies & Market Trends : Win Lose or Draw : Be A Steve, Make A Call
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To: Sojourner Smith who wrote (6323)3/12/2003 1:55:44 PM
From: Win-Lose-Draw  Read Replies (2) of 11447
 
more on that killer drone...in blair's defense, it is the US, not the UK, making a big deal about it.

"A remotely piloted aircraft that the United States has warned could spread chemical weapons appears to be made of balsa wood and duct tape, with two small propellors attached to what look like the engines of a weed whacker.

"The drone's white fuselage was emblazoned Wednesday with the words "God is great" and the code "Quds-10." Its balsa wood wings were held together with duct tape. Latif said the plane is controlled by the naked eye from the ground.

Asked whether its range is above the 93-mile limit imposed by the United Nations, he said it couldn't be controlled from more than five miles.

Blix mentioned the drone in a 173-page written list of outstanding questions about Iraq's weapons programs last week. He said the drone hadn't been declared by Iraq to inspectors.

But Iraq insisted it declared the drone in a report in January - and Hussein held up its declaration to prove it. The confusion, he said, was the result of a typo: The declaration said the wingspan was 14.5 feet instead of 24.5 feet as stated by Powell.

"When we discovered the mistake we addressed an official letter correcting the wingspan," he said. He showed that letter to reporters as well. He suggested inspectors had already seen the drone when the correction was made, but said: "No one of the inspectors noticed the difference."
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