Terror Toys: LeT to use small bomb-loaded planes against India

Press Trust of India Monday, February 03, 2003

New Delhi, February 3 In order to have a "mini replica" of September 11 attacks in Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan's ISI has directed militants, especially of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), to use "toy planes" to target Army posts and VVIPs.

Quoting an interrogation report of a LeT militant arrested in the state, informed sources said that the ISI had handed over a "fleet" of four dozen such planes, capable of carrying 10-15 kilograms of RDX, to LeT for carrying out an attack on Army posts or helicopter gunships of the Indian Air Force.The sources said two such planes were recovered recently from Rajouri district of Jammu region. The "toy planes" which can be operated by a remote control, take a set trajectory and hit a target within a range of 300 metres.

The arrested militant said that the plane was displayed at a Lashkar congregation in Pakistan. The militant was unable to give any further information about the toy plane but told his interrogators that the plane had flown out of his sight during its trial, the sources said.

The militant had said that the ISI wanted to repeat performance of the September 11 of bombing of twin towers in the US by carrying out similar attacks, though using these toy planes, the sources said.