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U.S. launches another drone plane to patrol Canadian border
CBC News http://news.sympatico.msn.cbc.ca
[1] The U.S. has been using the Predator B drone aircraft to patrol its border with
Mexico. “It has been very successful in using that technology there, and we’re testing to
see if we can apply that technology to the northern border as well,” said Steve Sapp of
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol in Fort Drum, N.Y., which is the plane’s base.
[5] The Predator is the unarmed version of the drone plane that the U.S. uses to conduct
air strikes in Pakistan, Iraq and Afghanistan. The aircraft is able to fly at an altitude of
6,000 metres and can remain in the air for 20 hours. The plane is equipped with 3,000
sensors and cameras capable of detecting a moving person from 10 kilometres away.
The planes will gather information along the border and transmit it to operators who will
[10] in turn contact border agents. The drones will not carry weapons and the U.S. will need permission to send them into
in Canadian airspace.
In eastern Canada, the focus of the Predator is the Akwesasne Mohawk Territory. “Essentially, we’re supplying
high-grade marijuana through this one small rural county of 50,000 people, thanks to the border, to all of the northeast,”
said Derek Champagne, district attorney of Franklin County, N.Y., and head of the area’s border and narcotics task
[15] force. However, people on the reserve are uneasy about being watched, Mohawk youth counsellor Brant Davis said.
“We no longer have the life we had 20 years ago here. Cameras, infrared, laser, informants, everything.”
Assinale a alternativa que apresenta uma diferença entre “The Predator” e o equipamento utilizado em ações no Oriente Médio.
