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VOA NEWS: DARFUR REBELS CLAIM TO SHOOT DOWN SPY PLANE
August 29, 2008
WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 -- The Voice of America issued the following story:

Rebels in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region say they have shot down an unmanned spy plane which, they say, the Sudanese government was using to track their positions.

A spokesman for the Sudan Liberation Army said its forces shot down the unmanned drone Thursday in the central mountainous Jabel Marra area.

A Sudanese army spokesman said an unmanned plane had made an emergency . . .

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