Radical Islamic terrorists have a new, deadly weapon they’re using in their bloody war against the West — drones.
And as they get better and better, experts warn these terror drone strikes could be coming to America soon.
Islamic terror groups like Hezbollah and ISIS have learned how to weaponize surveillance drones and use them against each other, adding a new twist to Syria’s civil war, a U.S. military official and others say.
A video belonging to an Al-Qaeda offshoot, Jund al-Aqsa, purportedly shows a drone strike on Syrian military barracks. In another video , small explosives purportedly dropped by the Iran-backed Shiite militant group Hezbollah target the Sunni militant group Jabhat Fatah al-Sham, formerly known as the Nusra Front.
A U.S. military official, who spoke anonymously because he wasn’t authorized to discuss the matter publicly, said the U.S. military is aware of the development. Commanders have warned troops to take cover if they see what they might have once dismissed as a surveillance drone, he said.
The head of the Airwars project, which tracks the international air war in Iraq, Syria and Libya, said the weaponized drones are design to scare people.
“There are a million ways you can weaponize drones – fire rockets, strap things in and crash them,” Chris Woods said. He added: “This is the stuff everyone has been terrified about for years, and now it’s a reality.”
The U.S. military official couldn’t immediately authenticate the videos in question, adding that most of the incidents they are aware of involved weaponized drones that simply crash into their targets. But another former senior U.S. military official who viewed the videos said there was nothing to suggest they were fake.
The extremist Islamic State group launched a sophisticated propaganda video, “The Clanging of the Swords, Part 4,” boasting about its capture of the Iraqi city of Fallujah. The video opens with drone footage over the western Iraqi city before cutting to violent ground footage depicting its advance across Iraq.
Lebanon-based Hezbollah has claimed to have armed-drone capabilities for nearly two years, but a recent video of bomblets hitting a militant camp near the Syrian town of Hama is the first known documentation.
The majority of these groups have access only to store-bought drones, similar to those available in the U.S., ranging in price from $1,000 to $3,000 and weighing between 5 to 10 pounds – certainly not enough to support a large bomb or rocket. Hezbollah is an exception, receiving most of its munitions – including its drones – from Iran.
“It’s not going to change the overall balance of power in the region, but it matters by the very fact that these are things that are normally beyond the capability of insurgents or terrorists groups,” said Peter Singer, author of the book “Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century,” and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
And as cells linked to the Islamic State group pop up across Europe and the United States, the real concern is the potential impact these experimental small, flying bombs could have if launched over crowded cities.
“You already see things happening in Ukraine, gangs in Mexico are using drones, and in Ireland, gangs there are using surveillance,” said Wim Zwijnenburg, a security and disarmament policy adviser at Netherlands-based PAX for Peace. “Add a small amount of explosives to a small drone, and even the psychological factor is pretty significant.”
The Associated Press contributed to this article
The U.S. and large European nations give token resistance to these evil haters. If Trump wins, he will hopefully give a stronger military effort against the middle east haters. Then we will see the hypocritical Europeans protesting U.S. policy.
Main Street-
You, sir, may be a prophet.
This latest development is more proof of the necessity of a Trump presidency, since The Liar will only care about those who can donate multi-millions to her retirement fund, as usual.
It’s going to be a tough, uphill slog, though, given the recent revelations in re: busing in illegal voters and the truckloads of boxes of “votes,” all for The Liar…not to mention the easily-hackable voting machines, many owned by Soros.
you are right! feel sorry for that we can’t do anything except vote for Trump as much as we can, to spread the word to our relatives and friends, neighbors and that how our country will dramatically change if she wins this election. I just heard a caller in the radio that if she gets in the white house, we will lost our nation. She will create unnecessary war, which will be the World War 3. She will be the worst president in the US American history, worst than Obama. let’s just pray and hopefully there will be a miracle. Our US constitution, Bill of Rights will disappear. we have to follow what the government says; no more freedom of speech, religion, etc. with HRC
Obama showed us what politics was really all about and it certainly not for the people . All of you who hated Obama let’s see what you going to say when Trump kills America. Wait on it , wait on it.
Leroy Mosley
BECAUSE US POLICY of perpetual war in The Middle East that many previous Administrations and Hillary Clinton is advocating is WRONG ( COST so far $5.4 trillion and creation of ISIS )
Who do you think provide these weapons to ISIS ? click this link to find the FACTS;
http://www.globalresearch.ca/twenty-six-things-about-the-islamic-state-isil-that-obama-does-not-want-you-to-know-about/5414735?print=1
Also a declassified FBI document stating that US policy not Religion sparked Terrorism can be found on this link :
http://www.globalresearch.ca/declassified-fbi-report-us-foreign-policy-not-religion-sparked-rise-of-terrorism-in-us/5545795?print=1
I hope Trump wins also but his chances are slim Hilary has the media on her side and the idiots who vote for her and he BS are just as sick and stupid as her they care nothing about our country and are voting for her because she is a woman and they want to make history nothing about her integrity or honesty which she has none.
Middle east countries do not respect women. If she will make a deal even she’s the president, they will only laugh at her.
If Trump wins, I hope he’ll gather up ALL WARRIORS OF ALL COUNTRIES WITH ALL THEIR MILITARY, NAVY, MARITIME, PILOTS, EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE AND GO AT THOSE SAVAGES AS FIERCE TIGERS AND NOT STOP UNTIL THEY KILLED ALL OF THEM…
Short of this, expect each day more threats, murders and weapon improvements and harassing all of us more and more. If you are delicate and think this is too much…. see how they humiliate innocents into kneeling and telling their life stories then cutting their throats a little at a time. Is this more delicate??? Don’t anybody make me mad with dumb expressions.
Nothing new there. Radio controlled model airplanes were used as remote controlled bombs in Cuba in the Castro revolution. Pretty low tech at the time and not all that effective, but still did an amount of damage and had a big fear factor.
These new weapons would be much more accurate and have a bigger payload but still would not be much more of a real threat then a moslem with a shotgun.
In any case we have to stop the wholesale importation of these Islamist.
Trump for the White House
Clinton for the BIG house
The RINO/Democrat elite establishment for the crap hpouse.
totally agree, i am from Belgium and me and many others think like you do! the EU is pampering and loving those hatefull creatures
Obama will probably give drones as gifts to all Muslim immigrants being shipped into our nation now.
Yes! This is his style. Provoking his arab muzzies loved ones against us westerners.
Can’t wait for Remmington to come out with a ‘drone load’ in 12 gauge. 🙂
31/2″ goose load should do it. I’ve worried about this for years and years especially at the Times Square ball drop, world series ect. As far as payload goes, it doesn’t take much nerve gas to do a whole lot of damage and if a small explosion accompanies it the stamped would kill thousands. Americans, be carefull.
stick your drones , you know exactly where , i dont have to tell you morons
This is a war between evil and good, and God and the Devil. Should be a no brainer, but where are the believers in truth and GOD?
And, they have their so-called secret leader: HILLARY CLINTON!!! Yeah, Hillary will help them get their drone weapons into the USA!
YES!
I thank that the Gay’s and the Jews all need to sue ever moslem Inman who says it is permissible to kill them. I would say a class action lawsuit, asking $30,000,000.00 each, with would be about right. Bankrupt ever mosk in the U.S., and that would put a stop to that bull crap.
You are assuming that a court would rule against the mosques. With Obama at the helm that idea will never fly.
but he is also fighting for GAY RIGHTS, and THEY are a POWERFUL group as well, and it would be a real fight indeed if/when it comes down to a battle between muslims and gays!!
Yeah, they are getting better and better, Obama’s JV team….Aren’t we LUCKY to have such a President…???? It’s only going to get worse with Hillary in the White House….!!!!
Thank you Ovomit and Ramrod Clinton.
Who said WE were the only ones who could use drones to neutralize the enemy? Just makes sense that they now have that ability
Why do you even need new weapons when you have Hillary and Obama in there….
Strengthen our borders… defense that stops incoming before it hits our soil is only sure-fired way. We can’t count on disarming foreign powers…Vote Trump…Save America.
Guess we can add Glen Beck to that known list of America haters, he seems to prefer the LIAR to a business person, wonder if he’ll be giving drones to his muslem imports???? Just saying!!!!!!!!
I used to love glen Beck at the beginning as he sounded so conservative and so knowledgeable that it was a pleasure viewing his program. But lately he’s against everything that’s good for us. He isn’t the only one, many pass as conservatives but are really and truly wolves in sheepskin. Even Wallace isn’t quite a conservative, and unfortunately there’s a very long list of these jerks!
I can hardly wait for Wallace to ask the questions in the next debate. His program this evening on fox was a complete ad for Clinton. He tried his best to demolish Trump and every tweet or social media reply called him out on it. I was not surprised when he actually laughed at the close because of those media comments.
The same principles that work for small drones can be scaled up to support larger ones. Even now ISIS operatives may be purchasing and disassembling drones to see how they are designed. This would be an easy way for terrorists to kill people without them having to head for their 72 whores and Allah.
We all know the sane decision is to vote for Trump. Hiliary supporters must not read or are not to informed on thier candidate behavior how she lies and is very corrupt arrogant a traitor who does cocaine and as sick as her husband a known cocaine addict do we need these criminals in the white house vote Trump hopefully he will win and the Clintons will be in prison where they belong.
charles, I just hope so. I was thinking Obama and HRC are the anti-Christ…It’s the last chapter in the bible. ” if you see the sign of anti-Christ”, that’s when Jesus Christ comes back.
Never thought I would start out a citizen of USA, and end up living in OBAMAnation…It just CANNOT be. Carrie NonRhino
At this point I am at a loss as to how we can force the main stream media to quit printing their biases against Trump. How many of you are listening to O’Reilly and his guest Goldberg? Goldberg is a lying POS. His moral debate is disgusting