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The CIAs RQ-170 Sentinel drone captured by the Iranians last week may have gone down in Afghanistan and then transported to Iran by friendly forces on the ground, a former officer in the elite Quds Force branch of Irans Revolutionary Guards told The Daily Caller.
The United States has never acknowledged that the drone was flying over Iranian airspace only that ground controllers lost contact with the drone and that it probably crashed.
However, photographs and video footage released by the Iranians on Dec. 8, several days after they announced the drones capture, clearly show that both wings had been neatly severed and then reattached.
This suggests that the drone landed safely and that its wings were cut off so it could be transported by truck, the former Quds Force officer said. I believe it was captured by the Taliban inside Afghanistan and transferred to the Iranians, who then reattached the wings, he added.
The United States military has long complained that Iran supplies weapons, explosives, and money to the Taliban. The U.S. has identified camps inside Iran where Taliban fighters are trained.
Read more: US Drone | Down In Afghanistan | Iran | The Daily Caller
The United States has never acknowledged that the drone was flying over Iranian airspace only that ground controllers lost contact with the drone and that it probably crashed.
However, photographs and video footage released by the Iranians on Dec. 8, several days after they announced the drones capture, clearly show that both wings had been neatly severed and then reattached.
This suggests that the drone landed safely and that its wings were cut off so it could be transported by truck, the former Quds Force officer said. I believe it was captured by the Taliban inside Afghanistan and transferred to the Iranians, who then reattached the wings, he added.
The United States military has long complained that Iran supplies weapons, explosives, and money to the Taliban. The U.S. has identified camps inside Iran where Taliban fighters are trained.
Read more: US Drone | Down In Afghanistan | Iran | The Daily Caller