{"id":40031,"date":"2016-06-11T10:03:08","date_gmt":"2016-06-11T14:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=40031"},"modified":"2016-06-11T10:03:33","modified_gmt":"2016-06-11T14:03:33","slug":"terrorist-drones-could-target-airports-sensitive-us-sites-dhs-warns-after-isis-attack-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=40031","title":{"rendered":"Terrorist drones could target airports, sensitive US sites, DHS warns after ISIS attack In Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->BY <span class=\"entry-author\"><span class=\"entry-author-name\">ANDREA SPADA<br \/>\nIslam Media Analysis<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11694\" src=\"http:\/\/www.islamedianalysis.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/drone-300x163.jpg\" alt=\"drone\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Airports and other sensitive locations throughout the United States could be atacked by personal drones, according to a new warning from the Department of Homeland Security. The \u201cintelligence assessment\u201d doesn\u2019t include mention of any known threats in the U.S., though it comes after a number of incidents where hobbyist unmanned aerial devices interfered with commercial airline flights.<\/p>\n<p>The DHS \u201cintelligence assessment\u201d cites a number of international incidents in which terrorists and roving criminal organizations deployed drones \u201cto support illicit or violent activities.\u201d Among them is one example where ISIS used a UAV to record video footage that was used \u201cto support an assault\u201d on an Iraq oil refinery in 2014. The DHS report also states that failed terror attacks inside the U.S. in recent years also relied on drones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot rule [out] the ability of future adversaries to acquire and use a commercially available [drone] as part of an attack within the Homeland,\u201d said the warning, which\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2015\/08\/homeland-security-hobbyist-sized-drones-are-the-latest-terrorism-threats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">widely circulated this week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past three years there have been 500 drone \u201cencounters\u201d at sites around the U.S., 218 of which have been related to aviation in some way. This month there were\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/newyork.cbslocal.com\/2015\/08\/03\/drone-sighting-jfk-airport-shuttle-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">three drone sightings\u00a0at JFK airport<\/a> in New York City in as many days, for instance, and the pilot of a personal aircraft needed to make a sudden swerve over\u00a0southern New Jersey when he spotted a UAV 1000 feet-or-so in the air.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile many of these encounters are not malicious in nature, they underscore potential security vulnerabilities that could be used by adversaries to leverage unmanned aerial systems as part of an attack,\u201d the intelligence report states.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.islamedianalysis.info\/terrorist-drones-could-target-airports-sensitive-us-sites-dhs-warns-after-isis-attack-in-iraq\/\">http:\/\/www.islamedianalysis.info\/terrorist-drones-could-target-airports-sensitive-us-sites-dhs-warns-after-isis-attack-in-iraq\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}