Drone crashes in Somalia's Puntland region

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Yahoo News, via the AP feed: http://news.yahoo.com/drone-crashes-somalias-puntland-region-170938838.html

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — An official in the semiautonomous Puntland region of Somalia says a surveillance drone has crashed.

Ports and Anti-piracy Minister Saeed Mohamed Rage said Saturday the drone crashed in Qaw village 20 kilometers (12miles) west of the port city of Bossasso.

The United States military flies aerial surveillance drones from Indian Ocean island nation of Seychelles to monitor piracy off the East African coast, but Rage said it is not clear whose drone crashed. The U.S. also flies drones that occasionally fire at Somalia's Islamic extremist rebels in south and central Somalia. The al-Shabab rebels Tuesday posted pictures on Twitter of what they claimed was a surveillance drone that had crashed.

Puntland, in northern Somalia, has escaped the decades of conflict seen in the country's south and central regions.

This seems to be unrelated to the May 28th incident. It does raise questions in my mind as to the security of the drone controls.

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Rage said it is not clear whose drone crashed

Which other countries are using drones in that area?

The U.S. also flies drones that occasionally fire at Somalia's Islamic extremist rebels in south and central Somalia.

No outcry from the anti-war crowd.