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Armed Robots Not Actually Gone From Iraq

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the someone-call-for-an-exterminator dept.

NightFalcon90909 writes "You may have heard that armed robots were yanked from Iraq after a gun started to swivel without it being told to do so. 'A recent news report that armed robots had been pulled out of Iraq is mistaken, according to the company that makes the robot [Foster-Miller] and the Army program manager. 'The whole thing is an urban legend,' says Foster Miller spokesperson Cynthia Black, of the reports about SWORDS moving its gun without a command.'"

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  1. Re:The Government Said So... by SeeSp0tRun · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Political prisioners of a country in which another government is using armed forces to occupy qualify as prisoners of war. Also, lets consider that we are in a "WAR on terror." Would these prisoners, not be from this "war?" Point being, they lied about torture at Guantanamo, only to make laws enforcing it later.
    Lets not forget the recent article claiming that certain sections of our own government felt it was above it's own laws.
    Unfortunately in today's age, soldiers do not necessarily wield guns. A nice exploding vest does the trick.

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