Authorities in Spain released a video Saturday that they claim shows suspected Al Qaeda members training for a bombing raid using a model plane, the latest development in a case that has led to three arrests. Spanish officials allege the suspects were planning a terrorist attack in Spain or elsewhere in Europe, but say investigators managed to intercept them before they could carry out their plot.
The undated video clip -- grainy and of low quality -- shows a colorful model propeller plane noisily taking off. Once airborne, it drops a small object that falls to the ground and a man then runs toward where the object landed. The identity of the man is not clear from the clip.
Two of the arrested suspects are Russians of Chechen descent -- Eldar Magomedov and Mohamed Ankari Adamov. They were jailed Sunday on provisional charges of belonging to a terrorist organization. The third man, a Turk named Cengiz Yalcin, was also jailed on provisional charges of possession of explosives and a device likely to be used in a terror attack.
The ministry has declined comment on whether investigators believe Magomedov and Adamov were practicing paragliding in the hope of unleashing some form of aerial attack.
While a paragliding device designed for a pilot and a passenger might be able to take off with as much as176 pounds of explosives, a model aircraft's payload would clearly be much smaller.HMMM: WHAT COULD YOU POSSIBLY LOAD ON TO A MODEL PLANE THAT - IF SMUGGLED INTO THE RIGHT TARGET - WOULD DO MAJOR HARM AND CAUSE MAJOR TERROR?
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