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Arafat’s New Terror Weapon: Exploding Toy Planes
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| January 14, 2003, 4:33 PM (GMT+02:00)
| DEBKA files staff
Posted on 01/15/2003 3:54:32 AM PST by Cvengr
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posted on
01/15/2003 3:54:32 AM PST
by
Cvengr
To: Cvengr
Somebody's been playing too many video games...There's a mission in Vice City where you set bombs with toy helicopters; there's one in GTA III where you blow up cars with toy cars.
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posted on
01/15/2003 3:57:36 AM PST
by
mhking
To: Howlin; Ed_NYC; MonroeDNA; widgysoft; Springman; Timesink; AntiGuv; dubyaismypresident; Grani; ...
"Hold muh beer 'n watch this!" PING....
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posted on
01/15/2003 3:58:01 AM PST
by
mhking
To: mhking
Buy stock in shotgun manufacturers.
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posted on
01/15/2003 4:01:09 AM PST
by
Cvengr
(John 3:17...doesn't begin with 'except')
To: Cvengr
I was thinking the same thing.
Sounds like duck hunting.
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posted on
01/15/2003 4:19:26 AM PST
by
Freebird Forever
(Abraham should've kept his hands off that slave girl, Hagar.)
To: Freebird Forever
Maybe time to take up skeet shooting.
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posted on
01/15/2003 4:23:18 AM PST
by
Cvengr
(John 3:17...doesn't begin with 'except')
To: Cvengr
This is a good article and it's not new. Last year I posted a link to FARC, I believe it was, that was planning to do the same thing.
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posted on
01/15/2003 4:27:04 AM PST
by
Cindy
To: Cvengr
You have got to be kidding.
I kept looking to see if this was from the Onion.
These planes have too small a payload to carry any useful explosives.
It takes a fair amount of skill/practice to fly them accurately. And they are definitely only good for close line of sight.
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posted on
01/15/2003 4:34:21 AM PST
by
sd-joe
To: mhking
This could be used to spread bio-agents,too,if they have them.
This is not a good thing.
To: Cvengr
Are these Pallies a bunch of inbred yokels or what?
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posted on
01/15/2003 4:39:13 AM PST
by
dennisw
(http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/weblog.php)
To: dennisw
Dennis, I agree with others that it's just too unworkable (not to mention ridiculous) for bombing purposes, although one could conceiveably deliver a little tiny payload of riacin. But if any Pallie were fool enough to try that, even the most dovish of Israelis would go bonkers. And it might even cause the Euros to blink. Nah, I just don't see this.
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posted on
01/15/2003 4:53:09 AM PST
by
xJones
To: Cvengr
"Pakistan's ISI has directed the militants operating in Jammu and Kashmir to use explosive-laden "Toy Plane" to hit VIPs in the state and the national capital, official sources said here.
The sources said following some confessions by arrested militants and wireless intercepts about the use of "Toy Plane", intelligence agencies were making necessary reviews of securities provided to VIPs.
Taking a cue from the method adopted by militants during the September 11 attacks, the sources said Jaish-e-Mohammed, which has been carrying out a series of suicide attacks in Jammu and Kashmir, is reported to be planning such attacks on VIPs in the national capital.
The intelligence agencies have also flashed messages to various state capitals in order to gather more information on this novel modus-operandi besides passing on a word of caution.
"Toy Plane" is the new armoury which has the capacity of carrying 10-15 kgs of explosive material. The plane takes a trajectory path and can hit the target within a range of 300 metres and can be operated by a remote control."
Here's the rest of an article about alleged PAKISTANI terrorists planning to use toy planes with explosives:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/563378/posts
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posted on
01/15/2003 5:05:27 AM PST
by
Cindy
To: sd-joe
I agree completely, these are not predators. If you put a camera in one you can forget about any other payload. Without that you won't get close enough to any kind of target. The controlling radios make perfect targets, etc.
This has bad idea written all over it.
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posted on
01/15/2003 5:13:51 AM PST
by
palmer
(at least I think it's snow)
To: Cvengr
plainly these planes should be regulated and permits issued for the working frequencies, flight plans ought to be filed and planes exceeding a certain size or weight (and of a sinister looking configuration) should be banned altogether - (sarcasm)
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posted on
01/15/2003 5:23:03 AM PST
by
Revelation 911
(insert pithy DU style quote here)
To: xJones
How about a few grams of c-4 or semetex on board to explode on impact? It could scare Israelis even if hitting someone would be unlikely.
I see the Arab mind at work that loves stealth, intrigues, back stabbing and deception.
WAS MUHAMMAD A TERRORIST
... made since attaining reason was abandoning my religion, the religion of truth for
yours ... I assume they had seen how Muhammad had brutally treated other Jews ...
answering-islam.org.uk/Silas/kronemer.htm - 81k - Cached - Similar pages
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posted on
01/15/2003 5:27:53 AM PST
by
dennisw
(http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/weblog.php)
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posted on
01/15/2003 5:31:01 AM PST
by
Mo1
(Join the DC Chapter at the Patriots Rally III on 1/18/03)
To: Cvengr
Arafat might want to look into these exploding dairy cows
Secret project #7 codenamed "I cant beleive its not butter"
I am told that a high voltage battery pack shocks the cow in the udder, causing a effluvience of boiling hot "magma" to depart the "business end", obliterating everything within a 6 meter radius.
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posted on
01/15/2003 5:38:02 AM PST
by
Revelation 911
(insert pithy DU style quote here)
To: Cvengr
The people running Israel must be nicer guys than I am...
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posted on
01/15/2003 5:43:20 AM PST
by
merak
To: Cindy
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posted on
01/15/2003 5:46:11 AM PST
by
Cindy
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