MODEL AIRPLANES ARE THE NEW TERRORISM

As a journalist and an editor, one of my pet peeves is stories where the headline is a question – especially when the answer is either (1) bloody obvious, and/or (2) going to turn out to be an unqualified “no”.

Which brings us to yr Paranoia-Go-Go headline of the day:



Short answer: no.

Long answer: still no, according to every expert interviewed for this story:

Counterterrorism experts and model-aircraft hobbyists said it would be nearly impossible to inflict large-scale damage of the sort Ferdaus allegedly envisioned using model planes. The aircraft are too small, can't carry enough explosives and are too tricky to fly, they said.

Granted, that didn’t stop Rezwan Ferdaus from allegedly actually concoct a plan using model airplanes to blow up a govt building. But he wouldn’t be the first al Qaeda wannabe arrested for devising a ploy that could never actually work in real life.

Nor is he the first to make sensationalist headlines anyway regardless of how plausible his little plot was. And sadly, he probably won’t be the last.

Get a hobby,

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