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US drone crashes on Islamic party's offices in Iraq

Mosul, Iraq - According to the military it was "A coincidence"

An American drone crashed Saturday on the offices of a main Islamic party in Mosul, Iraq. The news has been confirmed by major Derrick Cheng, US military spokesman in northern Iraq, specifying that the unmanned reconnaissance aircraft wasn't struck down: the accident was "A coincidence". The Iraqi Islamic Party is the largest Sunni political movement in the country. However, nobody would have been...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1109553
Rome, Italy, 09/29/2009 15:22
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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