Global Hawk shows its worth

Posted on: Oct. 25th, 2004 || Source: appeal-democrat.com | E-mail Article | Print Article

The picture on the projector screen was a bit fuzzy, but it showed several people loading items into the back of pickup trucks at one of Saddam Hussein's palaces in Baghdad, Iraq.

The moment was captured on film from 60,000 feet above by a Global Hawk aircraft as another part of the palace was attacked on March 25, 2003. Other images showed bombed-out buildings in Iraq and Taliban fighters with campfires near caves in the Tora Bora region of Afghanistan.

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