in 1979. the united states has communicated to the iranians that we will continue to conduct surveillance flights over international waters over the arabian gulf consistent with long standing practice and our commitment to the security of the region. in december, a classified rq 170 u.s. sentinel drone crashed inside iran after losing contact with its handlers. while monitoring iran s nuclear sites. the iranians recovered it largely intact. the pentagon did not at first disclose details of the more recent drone incident, citing its, quote, classified mission. meantime, more rising tension is looming with china as president obama prepares for a second term. a new report suggests china is just two years away from deploying nuclear ballistic missiles on its submarines, missiles with a 4600-mile range. china recently unveiled a second sophisticated stealth fighter jet that industry experts say may have been developed with stolen u.s. technology. the chinese j. 31 stealth
would not legally label it. adding the state department had protested through the swiss protected powers which represented the u.s. government in tehran since the u.s. embassy takeover in 197ed 9. the united states communicated to the iranians we will continue to conduct surveillance lights over international waters, over the arabian gulf. consistent with the long standing practicetant commitmencommitment to the secuf the region. in december, classified rq-1-70 u.s. sentinel drone crashed inside iran after losing contact with the handlers monitoring iran nuclear site. iranians recovered it largely intact. the pentagon did not disclose the details of the more recent drone incident citing the classified mission. meantime, more rising tension is looming farther east with china as president obama prepared for a second term. a new report suggests china is two years away from deploying nuclear ballistic missiles on the submarines. missiles with a 4600-mile range.
phase of the transition, the next milestone. we ll set a goal for afghan forces to take the lead for combat operations across the country in 2013. next year. so that isaf can move to a supporting role. this will be another step towards afghans taking full lead for their security as agreed to by 2014 when the everyone saf combat mission will end. and police in chicago are certainly hoping that their mission is a lottese ier today, easier than it was yesterday. what a mess. protesters opposed to the war among other things, vow to be back out on the streets again today and my colleague ted rollins is there too. so, ted, things got ugly quickly yesterday. how are things looking today and have they taken any additional measures to keep things in check? reporter: well, so far so good in terms of today. it s very quiet today. however there s a protest that s ramping up here in the next hour at boeing where protesters are going to surround the building and right now police have p
ceremony to mark the end of that war. here in afghanistan i sat down with the defense secretary and asked him about the relationship with the afghans in the wake of the embarrassing drone incident. the drone, the rq-170 that went down over iran that was being flown out of western afghanistan. here s what he said. it s pretty clear that those operations have to be protected in order to do the job and the mission that they re involved with. reporter: will those operations continue since they re being flown out of afghanistan? absolutely. reporter: he said that the, um, the the drone operations, the spying campaign over iran being run from air bases in afghanistan would continue. it was a very clear message from the defense secretary. he s going to meet with president hamid karzai here in kabul tomorrow, and it is likely that president karzai could protest the fact that those,
difficult for iran to get a hold of financial system. it could ail yent allies and drive up the price of oil. drone incident raising serious questions. are we already in a covert war with iran? jennifer griffin reporting. the captured of a downed drone revealed that u.s. was flying spy air missions actively gathering information over iran. it s the latest of mysterious events including explosions and assassinations targeting the nuclear scientists. they are saying covert war against the nuclear program is under way. it begin more than a year ago. first a cyber attack. 1,000 centrifuges destroyed. a dozen mysterious explosions at a scientist s home. one is wounded by a car bomb.