Terrorists Could Use Drones, Expert Says

From NTI.org (March 3):

No fewer than 40 nations are seeking to develop or acquire unmanned aerial vehicles [(UAVs)], which raises the specter that the proliferation of the technology could enable extremists to obtain the drone aircraft and use them in a terrorist attack, according to the latest issue of Newsweek (see GSN, July 17, 2009).

Drones have already been used by extremists. In 2005, the Lebanon-based group Hezbollah flew an unmanned surveillance plane into Israel.

An assessment by the U.S. Air Force recently found that UAV systems would be "an ideal platform" for deploying biological, chemical or radiological "dirty bombs," the unconventional weapons most likely to be acquired by terrorists, stated P.W. Singer, head of the 21st century Defense Initiative at the Brookings Institution. [read more]

Scary, but not surprising. The militant Jihadists could fly one of those UAVs from the Mexico's border into the US or even from Canada's border.