Al-Qaedas High-Tech Drone-Dodging Tips Revealed

When Islamist militants were forced from the historic city of Timbuktu, Mali by French soldiers last month, they left in the rubble a document that's extremely telling of the realities of modern asymmetrical warfare: a 22-point tipsheet prepared by al-Qaeda on avoiding death by drone strike.

The document, recovered by the Associated Press, reveals that al-Qaeda either has, believes it has or wants the world to believe it has several high-tech ways to interfere with drone aircraft, which have become an increasingly central element of the global war on terrorism.

The list, for example, says that it's "possible to know the intention and the mission" of a drone by using a Russian "sky gra…
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