Al Qaeda Drone Attacks On US?

The Justice Department says that US citizen Rezwan Ferdaus plotted to fill a remote-controlled model plane with plastic explosives and fly it into the Pentagon and Capitol. US Department of Justice/Handout/Reuters

Al Qaeda Drone Attacks On US? Soon It Won't Be So Far-Fetched. -- Christian Science Monitor

An Al Qaeda sympathizer was arrested who allegedly planned drone attacks in Washington. An expanding market and improved technology could make small drones more available to anti-US terrorists.

A terrorist attack on the nation’s capital using remote-control model airplanes to deliver bombs, as an American Al Qaeda sympathizer arrested in Massachusetts this week is alleged to have planned, may seem far-fetched or silly.

But perhaps not for long. The US, after all, has already been using unmanned planes to attack Al Qaeda targets with deadly accuracy for years.

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My Comment: The US proves everyday on how effective drones can be .... in turn .... I am sure the opposite side is now calculating if they can do the same thing. The difference .... a successful drone attack on the White House, Congress, a major sporting event, etc. .... the attack may be small, but the propaganda and media coverage will be enormous and approaching 9/11 levels of coverage.