Posted on 09/03/2013 8:44:08 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
Al-Qaeda’s leadership has assigned cells of engineers to find ways to shoot down, jam or remotely hijack U.S. drones, hoping to exploit the technological vulnerabilities of a weapons system that has inflicted huge losses upon the terrorist network, according to top-secret U.S. intelligence documents.
Although there is no evidence that al-Qaeda has forced a drone crash or interfered with flight operations, U.S. intelligence officials have closely tracked the group’s persistent efforts to develop a counterdrone strategy since 2010, the documents show.
Al-Qaeda commanders are hoping a technological breakthrough can curb the U.S. drone campaign, which has killed an estimated 3,000 people over the past decade. The airstrikes have forced al-Qaeda operatives and other militants to take extreme measures to limit their movements in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia and other places. But the drone attacks have also taken a heavy toll on civilians, generating a bitter popular backlash against U.S. policies toward those countries. . .
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It’s called a heat seeking rocket launcher.
Islam is like a Zombie outbreak.
Don’t know why they are so concerned. We will be giving alqaeda drones in a couple weeks.
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And how did WaPo come by these "top-secret" documents? Didn't the Just Us Department spy on James Rosen for trying to get info from "top-secret" documents?
Oh wait, Rosen works for FOX News and can be assumed to be a - gasp! - conservative (by the Left).
No, as those students in Austin demonstrated, the only way a drone can be taken down or taken over is through its satellite uplink.
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