He managed to escape unharmed, but Mustafa al-Kadhimi, the Iraqi prime minister, must have had a real scare. Few days ago managed to save his life in a drone bombing in Baghdad.
Six members of his security forces yes, they were injured by the explosion from the only one of the three drones that managed to crash into the Iraqi president’s residence. The use of drones as weapons has increased in recent years, and their disturbing potential is becoming increasingly clear.
Flying killers for hire
In 2015, a drone crashed in one of the gardens of the White House. It was a DJI Phantom owned by a government employee who apparently had too many drinks and lost control of his quadcopter.
It was almost like a warning of what was to come. Drones soon became important elements of militaries around the world – including Spain’s – but also in disturbing substitutes for hitmen.
We saw this in 2017 with both ISIS attacks and its use by cartels and organized crime. Construction of bomb drones It is already a juicy business for the arms industry, and its application is evident not only in military operations, but also in attacks.
This happened a few days ago in Baghdad, when the so-called “Green Zone”, the residence of the Iraqi Prime Minister, was attacked by three drone bombs. The perpetrators of the attack are not known.
Two of them were captured by Iraqi security forces, but the third managed to hit a residence and injured six members of the prime minister’s security forces. The events took place after the country’s controversial elections, which have already sparked protests by several armed groups.
What’s certain is that the possibilities offered by both drones and remote-controlled precision rifles—one of which was responsible for the recent death of Iran’s top nuclear scientist—or those that are beginning to mount on the backs of Boston Dynamics’ Spot robots paint a disturbing future: one that in which certainly attacks seem more dangerous than ever.
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