The plan isn’t lacking in morbid enthusiasm. The idea is to strap a “lightweight” bomb to a bird with a so-called “suicide belt,” and train the bird in six (easy?) steps to fly into a jet and detonate an explosive—effectively making the bird a suicide bomber. The ISIS loyalist suggests using an Urea bomb, which he theorizes was the explosive used by ISIS to down the Russian Metrojet plane that crashed in the Sinai Peninsula, killing all 224 on board in late October.
After conducting the necessary research, the loyalist wrote, he found two species of birds that particularly fit his criteria for height and speed: the peregrine falcon and Rüppell’s vulture. The only problem with the vulture, though, is that it resides in Africa (oops!), although it “can be smuggled or found in zoos across Syria and Iraq,” the plan declares.
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