Ababil Babble

The forces of freedomisation have claimed another brilliant victory in Iraq, detecting and shooting down an Iranian surveillance drone. The international community, which has probably bagged over a million Iraqis during the past six years, has frequently accused Iran of interfering militarily in Iraq. Drones of the same manufacture were apparently used by Hezbollah to carry explosives during the Righteous State's Lebanon rampage in 2006, in a chilling echo of Saddam Hussein's anti-semitic squibs during the first Gulf War, Hitler's V-weapons, the Holocaust, etc. It took two manned jets just over an hour to destroy the device, presumably because they first had to determine that it was neither capable of shooting back nor armed with the invisible weapons of mass destruction which are so common in that part of the world. The Americans also took the time to confirm that the thing did not belong to coalition forces, which indicates a new and welcome degree of circumspection. The head of military operations at the Iraqi defence ministry said that the drone was in Iraqi airspace by accident, while an American lieutenant somewhere in Baghdad said that it was not. It is as yet unclear which of them outranks the other.