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Counter-terror chiefs fear Islamist fanatics plan to launch deadly bomb attacks on the UK’s streets using unmanned toy drones.
Both MI5 and police battling the threat of an IS outrage in Britain believe the network has experimented with planting high explosives on the tiny flying machines.
The agile drones could lift enough C4 plastic explosive to kill or maim a person if detonated near someone’s head by remote control or a timer.
Sources told the Mirror that police probing IS plots against UK citizens believe terror bosses want to launch a multi-drone attack.
This could mean flying the helicopter-style toys by remote control into crowds at an open-air music festival or a football ground …. http://www.mirror.co.ukThe warning is similar to one issued in the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003
In February of that year Secretary of State Colin Powell showed a picture of a small drone plane during his presentation to the U.N. Security Council.
“UAVs outfitted with spray tanks constitute an ideal method for launching a terrorist attack using biological weapons,” Powell said during his speech. “Iraq could use these small UAVs, which have a wingspan of only a few meters, to deliver biological agents to its neighbors or, if transported, to other countries, including the United States.”
President Bush also mentioned Iraqi UAVs or drones in a speech prior to the invasion …. http://www.prisonplanet.com