Drone operations over Somalia pose danger to air traffic, U.N. report says. By Craig Whitlock. July 24. The Washington Post
[Excerpt] The skies over Somalia have become so congested with drones that the unmanned aircraft pose a danger to air traffic and potentially violate a long-standing arms embargo against the war-torn country, according to United Nations officials.
In a recently completed report, U.N. officials
describe several narrowly averted disasters in which drones crashed into a
refugee camp, flew dangerously close to a fuel dump and almost collided with a
large passenger plane over Mogadishu, the capital.
Although U.N. investigators did not directly pin the blame for the mishaps on
the United States, the report noted that at least two of the unmanned aircraft
appeared to be U.S.-manufactured and suggested that Washington had been less
than forthcoming about its drone operations in Somalia....
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/drone-operations-over-somalia-pose-danger-to-air-traffic-un-report-says/2012/07/24/gJQALvnf7W_story.html?wpisrc=nl_headlines
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