Daily Mail: ISIS could drop dirty bombs from drones in Europe and the US, terror experts warn
* ISIS jihadists could start using commercial drones to drop bombs
* Small quadcopters can be bough online but not carry very heavy loads
* Bombs to be 'poisonous or chemical' to create as much damage as possible
* Warning came at Intelligence & National Security Summit in Washington DC
Security experts say it is a 'matter of time' before ISIS start using commercial drones to bomb cities in Europe and in the United States.
Jihadists could use quadcopters, a type of drone widely available to buy online, and often used by photographers to film or capture images from the air, and mount bombs on them, a leading terrorism official warned today.
The warning came during a security summit in Washington DC on Friday, where winning the global war on Islamist terrorism was compared to trying to 'boil the ocean'.
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Update #1: Something else to fret about: ISIS mounting dirty bombs on drones (McClatchy News)
Update #2: Drones Delivering Dirty Bombs Could Be the Next Terror Threat (Sputnik)
WNU Editor: Groups like ISIS have been using drones to drop bombs for the past two years .... so I will not be surprised if in the coming months/years we will hear a report of a drone being used to drop/spray a chemical agent or a radioactive isotope.
1 comment:
WNU,
Of course, that's so easy!
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