Come on. Take an educated guess. "Egypt charges 5 in Hamas attack plot," from the Associated Press:
Egypt charged two leaders of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood, two Sinai Beduins and a Palestinian with plotting a terrorist attack with Hamas, a security official said Sunday.
Brotherhood leaders Abdel-Hai al-Faramawy, a professor at Cairo's Al-Azhar university, and Mohammed Wahdan were charged with paying the equivalent of US$3,600 (€2,300) to two Beduins to buy 30 jerry cans of fuel, spare parts and a remote control for an unmanned aircraft.
Al-Faramawy denied the charges, while Hamas said the reports were completely false.
The security official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media, said Hamas was planning to build the unmanned aircraft but Media reports suggest that everyone from US and Israeli interests to rival Palestinian factions were to be hit.
Hamas does not possess any aircraft, but it has in the past attempted to load remote-controlled airplanes with explosives for attacks on Israeli targets. These attempts have never succeeded.
According to the police report, the Palestinian charged was a member of Hamas and was to collect the material purchased by the Beduin using Brotherhood money and use it in the attack.
"Hamas does not possess any aircraft, but it has in the past attempted to load remote-controlled airplanes with explosives for attacks on Israeli targets. These attempts have never succeeded."
The Hamas/Muslim Cargo Cult's fascination with technology is truly amazing. You have to give them credit for ingenuity. We've got to keep an eye on them since they could produce a lot of damage with the toys they steal from the West (using money they got from a Bedouin? WTF?). However, I doubt they'll ever be able to write a Shakespeare sonnet, no matter how many of them pound on typewriters they might acquire - also from the West.
they don't really need unmanned aircraft, they have plenty of Muslimas and children who can move about more quietly and get closer to the target before going BOOOOM!
And how many of those hate savages well-educated in engineering got their skills at colleges and universities in the US and EUrabia, many for free on scholarships provided at the expense of the American taxpayers?
Ruslan Tokhchukov, EnragedSince1999.
"Hamas does not possess any aircraft, but it has in the past attempted to load remote-controlled airplanes with explosives for attacks on Israeli targets. These attempts have never succeeded."
-- from the article above
Time to change the old phrase so as to take account of the preposterous ambitions of Hamas: Drones in the sky in the sweet bye-and-bye.
It occurs to me that Israel is consistently asked to tolerate what no nation on this earth (including the United States) would put up with. If Mexico were lobbing crude missiles at San Diego daily from "populated areas" in Tijuana I wounder how long all of that sub-standard housing would remain standing. Clearly it is time to clear the vermin out. On the eve of Passover these pieces of crap killed more Israeli border guards. F-Hamas..f-the so-called Palestinians and f-Muslims. These people understand and respect only a boot on their miserable necks. Remember these are the same Palestinians who danced and sang in the streets of Gaza and the West Bank when the Towers fell. Jimmy Carter should be packed up and sent there to live the rest of his miserable life.
Does anyone here actually believe that Hamas in Gaza has the skill to develop unmanned aircraft? It takes talent, resources and patience, of which the Palestinians possess none. They might be able to strap a hand granade onto a toy RC plane, but that's it.
Iran could probaly do it, just like the Soviet Union had great engineers and scientists despite the miserable conditions they must have been working under. But Hamas? No way!
I'm hardly a Zionist hardliner, but the proliferation of UAV technology and its inevitable use by terrorist organizations raises unsettling questions about the future of Israeli security (and the security of US forces.)
The tech is out there and, witticisms aside, groups like Hamas and Hezbollah will make use of it. What will they do with it, and what is the proper defense? I guess we can leave that to the big brains.
The wonderful and awful thing about technology is that it spreads like a drop of ink in a glass of water.
I'm guessing they couldn't find anyone to fly the plane..........that's strange.
"Does anyone here actually believe that Hamas in Gaza has the skill to develop unmanned aircraft?..."
Posted by: Vagn Henning
They don't need to develop unmanned aircraft, only learn how to use UAVs they acquire from somewhere else. As a poster above commented, it is only a matter of time before the do so.