{"id":2074,"date":"2013-09-07T11:01:10","date_gmt":"2013-09-07T17:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/?p=2074"},"modified":"2013-09-06T11:31:27","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T17:31:27","slug":"al-qaeda-fights-back-against-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/al-qaeda-fights-back-against-drones\/","title":{"rendered":"Al-Qaeda fights back against drones"},"content":{"rendered":"

Al-Qaeda has established cells of engineers to find and exploit weaknesses in American drones, as part of an attempt to stem the heavy losses inflicted on its terrorist networks, according to secret intelligence documents.<\/h3>\n
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By\u00a0Rob Crilly<\/a>, \u00a0The Telegraph
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American drone strikes are believed to have killed at least 3000 people in the past 10 years and cut a swath through the senior ranks of militant groups along the Afghan border with\u00a0Pakistan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Documents leaked by Edward Snowden, the fugitive former intelligence contractor, and given to\u00a0The Washington Post<\/a>\u00a0show the lengths al-Qaeda has gone to in order to counter the deadly drones.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In July 2010, a US spy agency intercepted communications suggesting senior al-Qaeda leaders had sent a guide to operatives around the world advising on how to \u201canticipate and defeat\u201d unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Defence Intelligence Agency also reported that the group was sponsoring research to develop jammers that would hamper GPS signals and targeting systems.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Other projects included observation balloons and small radio-controlled aircraft, which insurgents planned to use for observing flight patterns of CIA drones, according to the leaked report, entitled \u201cThreats to Unmanned Aerial Vehicles\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n