How Sicily’s Mafia Plotted To Conduct Hits With Drones -- National PostA Mafia turncoat has revealed that Sicily’s Cosa Nostra was a pioneer in the use of killer drones, testing bomb-loaded remote-controlled aircraft in the early 1990s.
Two decades before the U.S. began using Reaper drones to strike terrorist targets in the Middle East, mobsters in Palermo were testing ways to kill rivals from the sky, Gaspare Spatuzza, a former mafioso, told a court Wednesday. Spatuzza said he was ordered by one of the Graviano brothers — two Palermo bosses in the 1990s — to buy and test radio-controlled aircraft with explosives attached.
“Graviano ordered me to buy a radio-controlled aircraft,” he said. “He said others had already bought them and we needed to carry out tests for transforming them into flying bombs by loading them with explosives.”
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My Comment: I guess they wanted something like this. Talk about being ahead of your time.