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You have been watching too much CNN. Your comment is the silliest thing I have read on HN in a long time. Leonardo da Vinci experimented with flight many centu

You have been watching too much CNN. Your comment is the silliest thing I have read on HN in a long time. Leonardo da Vinci experimented with flight many centuries ago. He gave up. Which came first, the widespread availability of drones or the Good Friday Agreement? How do you get a 'human suicide bomber' in to some place like Number 10 Downing Street? You don't. You don't even use a drone. You use a mortar bomb: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downing_Street_mortar_attack http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downing_Street_mortar_attack Where are these 'al-qaeda' terror cells of yours? The ones that see their lives as having no more value than that of a housefly's? Did I miss out on the Kool Aid?

walshemj 13y ago
Terrorists only use the tactics their people can execute effectively which is why terry talliban use crude IED's and target soft civilian targets and don't go toe to toe with the SAS. The IRA did experiment with RC planes as an attack vector they decided that it was not worth the effort - Car bombs and improvised mortars where a better weapon more bang for the buck Why exactly do you think my comment was silly?
- Theodores 13y ago
  Where is this evidence you have of the IRA using drones? I assume there is some, I assume you have it, so it should be no problem to post a link, or maybe two links as single source is sometimes not good enough. Have you been to Afghanistan? Ever met a genuine terrorist? You seem to make assumptions as if you know how these terrorist people think. Earlier you were talking about those fictional 'al-qaeda' fellows, not to be confused with those genuine 'Taliban' (the word means 'students'). There is a difference, that is why we have these different labels and words for things, it helps us to explain what we mean. You can't just use any old words interchangeably and spell things wrongly. Regarding your digressions... I have been watching the news and, from what I can remember, these 'Taliban' of yours have been attacking paid up military folk and the mercenary civilian contractors sent there on some bounty hunt to support a military operation. The general idea is that, wherever you live, you attack an uninvited occupying army, it does not matter where they are from, how trans-gendered they are, whether they call themselves 'SAS' or whatever. If there are soldiers in silly little uniforms occupying your country then they are fair game to the likes of 'the talliban' (your spelling). If I remember, the 'Coalition of the Willing', of which I guess you support wholeheartedly from the comfort of your armchair, bombed the Red Cross food depot, not once, but twice. They have also bombed plenty of wedding parties. I think you will find these are 'soft targets'. All considered, I think it is about time you got off your armchair and went to see a bit of the real world.
  - walshemj 13y ago
    BBC documentary with ex PIRA bomb makers was the source for the RC planes. actually I do know the difference between the different factions in Afghanistan 055 Brigade al Qaeda and the locally recruited fighters. And forgive me if the spell checker I used doesn't have you preferred spellings.
    - Theodores 13y ago
      "I saw it on TV once" - is that the only source you have? Remote control planes have been around for decades - you grandfather probably had one made of things like balsa. I am sure that those Irish people were not so retarded that they did not see the possibilities of putting some Semtex in one and flying into Balmoral or somewhere. A little switch on the nose, no timing device needed. It is all imaginable. Yet, we mustn't let our imaginations get the better of ourselves. There is a distinction between reality, propaganda and imaginations of an over-active mind. This Brigade 55 of yours, met anyone in it?
      - walshemj 13y ago
        And maybe you'd like to share with the rest of us exactly where you get your knowledge eh. My point was that the PIRA one of the most effective terrorist organisations in recent times did look at model planes/drones and discarded then as not an effective weapon/tactic. Brigade 55 are of course the circa 2000 foreign fighters imported into Afghanistan and used as a cadre. but as you seem to be so well informed you should know that.

walshemj 13y ago

Terrorists only use the tactics their people can execute effectively which is why terry talliban use crude IED's and target soft civilian targets and don't go toe to toe with the SAS. The IRA did experiment with RC planes as an attack vector they decided that it was not worth the effort - Car bombs and improvised mortars where a better weapon more bang for the buck Why exactly do you think my comment was silly?

Theodores 13y ago
Where is this evidence you have of the IRA using drones? I assume there is some, I assume you have it, so it should be no problem to post a link, or maybe two links as single source is sometimes not good enough. Have you been to Afghanistan? Ever met a genuine terrorist? You seem to make assumptions as if you know how these terrorist people think. Earlier you were talking about those fictional 'al-qaeda' fellows, not to be confused with those genuine 'Taliban' (the word means 'students'). There is a difference, that is why we have these different labels and words for things, it helps us to explain what we mean. You can't just use any old words interchangeably and spell things wrongly. Regarding your digressions... I have been watching the news and, from what I can remember, these 'Taliban' of yours have been attacking paid up military folk and the mercenary civilian contractors sent there on some bounty hunt to support a military operation. The general idea is that, wherever you live, you attack an uninvited occupying army, it does not matter where they are from, how trans-gendered they are, whether they call themselves 'SAS' or whatever. If there are soldiers in silly little uniforms occupying your country then they are fair game to the likes of 'the talliban' (your spelling). If I remember, the 'Coalition of the Willing', of which I guess you support wholeheartedly from the comfort of your armchair, bombed the Red Cross food depot, not once, but twice. They have also bombed plenty of wedding parties. I think you will find these are 'soft targets'. All considered, I think it is about time you got off your armchair and went to see a bit of the real world.
- walshemj 13y ago
  BBC documentary with ex PIRA bomb makers was the source for the RC planes. actually I do know the difference between the different factions in Afghanistan 055 Brigade al Qaeda and the locally recruited fighters. And forgive me if the spell checker I used doesn't have you preferred spellings.
  - Theodores 13y ago
    "I saw it on TV once" - is that the only source you have? Remote control planes have been around for decades - you grandfather probably had one made of things like balsa. I am sure that those Irish people were not so retarded that they did not see the possibilities of putting some Semtex in one and flying into Balmoral or somewhere. A little switch on the nose, no timing device needed. It is all imaginable. Yet, we mustn't let our imaginations get the better of ourselves. There is a distinction between reality, propaganda and imaginations of an over-active mind. This Brigade 55 of yours, met anyone in it?
    - walshemj 13y ago
      And maybe you'd like to share with the rest of us exactly where you get your knowledge eh. My point was that the PIRA one of the most effective terrorist organisations in recent times did look at model planes/drones and discarded then as not an effective weapon/tactic. Brigade 55 are of course the circa 2000 foreign fighters imported into Afghanistan and used as a cadre. but as you seem to be so well informed you should know that.