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Experts warn that off-the-shelf drones could be used in a spectacular atrocity that would be live-streamed for a propaganda coup.
LONDON — A team of British intelligence analysts has drawn up a chilling scenario in which terrorists launch a swarm of small drones in an attack on a major sporting event like the Super Bowl, unleashing multiple explosive devices on the crowd in the stadium.
“If we do not act to prevent it, it is only a matter of time,” Chris Abbott, the executive director of a think tank called Open Briefing, told The Daily Beast in an exclusive interview.
Abbott’s group, which calls itself “the first civil society intelligence agency,” includes former military specialists and intelligence agency operatives. They have been tracking the development of drones for several years.
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Fifteen years ago the concern was that some terrorist group would release a deadly virus etc. into a filled stadium. Sensors were developed and installed but no deadly virus came to the games. The next fear of course was that something would set off the alarms even though no virus was present. At that point how do you deal with the logistics, food etc., after the lock down for a stadium filled with tens of thousands of people, while processing them? Remember the crowd in the stadium after Katrina?
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