Mystery Solved

The Drone/UAV issue that we wrote about here now appears to be solved or at least partially so.Trey very helpfully posted a video of UAVs being launched in and around […]

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Gregory Johnsen

December 21, 2010

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The Drone/UAV issue that we wrote about here now appears to be solved or at least partially so.

Trey very helpfully posted a video of UAVs being launched in and around the Gulf of Aden. The size on the video fits with the size of the wreckage that al-Ghad reported on from the Lahj coast nearly two weeks ago.

Gregory Johnsen

Near East Studies Scholar, Princeton University

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