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| E-jihadis suggest using remote-controlled aircraft |
| 2006-05-06 |
| A member of a password-protected al-Qaeda-affiliated forum posted yesterday, May 4, 2006, a suggestion to the mujahideen in Iraq and Afghanistan to use remote-controlled airplanes laden with explosives, rather than suicide bombers, to target enemy forces. Inspired by the rocket depicted in the Mujahideen Shura Council’s release Tuesday, April 25, 2006 of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s video speech, the author states: “I told myself if they can make a rocket, what prevents them from making an armored vehicle, tank or a plane to achieve the targeted goal? This is to defeat the cross and its helpers.” He suggests where the planes may be purchase and provides technical specifications and ideas for expanding the load they may carry. Members responding to the suggestion to execute suicide operations, but without a “suicider,” take two different views of the idea being tenable and “magnificent,” and others which question the motive. On members states his belief that there is a larger goal implicit in a suicide operation than striking the enemy, and this is a love to have their “bodies torn for the Sake of Allah”. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #2 Expect an explosive growth in the Pakistani light-aircraft industry. |
| Posted by: Fordesque 2006-05-06 15:15 |
| #1 Jihadis have tried that... it didn't work... 2003 article. Jammu, October 19 Pakistan-backed militants have smuggled tiny remote-controlled toy planes into Jammu division from across the border to target VIPs and aircraft, official sources said today. “Pakistan-backed militants, particularly those of the Laskhar-e-Toiba, have smuggled 20 remote-controlled toy planes to Jammu to target VIPs and aircraft in Jammu and Kashmir and cause terror and security problems,” the sources said. The toy planes, made of plastic material, have been smuggled from across the Line of Control and the international border from Pakistan’s launching pads — Bhimber, Nikiyal, Samani, Kalsan, Basanter and Koteqube — during the past over a month, the sources said, quoting intelligence reports and intercepts. These toy planes, weighing 3 to 4 kg, have a capacity to carry up to 2 kg of explosives, enough to damage an aircraft or blow up a vehicle, they said. — PTI |
| Posted by: john 2006-05-06 14:34 |