militant groups' interest in increasing operations in these key cities. Lumbini Park, which is a theme park near Hussein Sagar Lake, is mostly thronged by the city's more affluent business crowd (people who can actually afford the ticket fees). The Gokul Chat eatery, which is famous for its food, is located in a crowded, posh market area.

The last major attack in Hyderabad occurred May 18 when Kashmiri militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, working with the Student Islamic Movement of India, bombed the Mecca Mosque. That attack -- reminiscent of jihadist tactics in Iraq -- revealed a strategy by these groups to strike at Muslim targets in order to incite communal riots between Hindus and Muslims. However, Hyderabad's Muslim community failed to take the bait and instead turned increasingly hostile towardcome of age, and the true extent of their utility is still being explored. Giving one service control over higher-flying UAVs would limit the kind of branch-specific experimentation and out-of-the-box thinking that the technology needs in order to reach its full potential.

By the time the first U.S. UAVs droned through the skies over Afghanistan and Iraq, many years of concerted research and development had already been done (Pioneer UAVs were used in operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm in 1990 and 1991). But the more useful the systems became, the more interest spread at the Pentagon, which now views the concept as having almost limitless applications.

While much program development takes place below 3,500 feet (the Air Force wants to keep well away from the more tactical UAV missions),