Informed Comment Juan Cole _Drones, Drones Everywhere, and now we’ve given them to Iran_ (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/juancole/ymbn/~3/qMvEeJItp5o/drones-drones-everywhere-and- now-weve-given-them-to-iran.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email) Posted: 22 Apr 2012 10:46 PM PDT The American deployment of its thousands of drones or unmanned aircraft is one dimension of the breakdown of the rule of law. The US sends the spy craft over other countries without permission and in the teeth of ardent protests, violating their sovereignty. There are now plans to fly drones over US towns, as part of our descent into an Orwellian surveillance society. It is bad enough that the US has all those drones. Now the technology is spreading to anti-American powers in the Middle East. Iran has announced that it is _reverse-engineering a US spy drone_ (http://www.mehrnews.com/en/newsdetail.aspx?NewsID=1583087) that crashed on Iranian territory. Rumors are swirling that Russia and China also want a peek at the specs. The Iranian authorities maintain that they have broken the software encryption of the drone, and have been able to verify its past missions and history of repair. If Iran has drones, how long will it be before Hizbullah, the Shiite party of south Lebanon, has them and uses them over Israel? .....
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