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Turkey employs Israeli made unmanned aircraft in Iraq

Ankara, Turkey - Media talk about even of sabotage, after the crisis between the two countries

The Turkish Army has begun using Israeli-made unmanned aircraft to monitor Kurdish rebel movements in neighboring Iraq, the Anatolia news agency reported June 21, quoting the army chief. "In the past 10 days, we have started using our Heron systems... the surveillance systems we bought from Israel, at the border with the north of Iraq", General Ilker Basbug said in Canakkale, north-western Turkey,...

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Rome, Italy, 06/22/2010 18:55
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