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It is about time!

SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. – The pilot has gone through his checklist and taxied his plane into position for takeoff.

He gets clearance from the control tower, throttles forward and — from the ground — guides his unmanned aircraft into the sky along the Mexican border to watch for drug traffickers and illegal immigrants, part of a bird’s-eye patrol that authorities hope to expand.

Four Predator B drones have become fixtures over Arizona since October 2006, and two more will join them soon, Juan Munoz-Torres, a Customs and Border Protection spokesman, said Wednesday.

~snip~  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080402/ap_on_re_us/border_drones

Too bad they are not armed with Hellfire missles…

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