Newsweek: Hezbollah Holds New Weapon of Terror

Hezbollah has anew weapon of terror? Ah, wait: Newsweek also calls it "Hizbollah's most dangerous weapon, too.

Hmmm.... could it be:

1. Anna Nicole Smith ("TrimSpa, baaaaby!") playing Lady MacBeth in a super-micro bikini?
2. Cheney (aka "The Dick") giving Mr. Bush a bag of extra choke-worthy pretzels?
3. Donald Rumsfeld making pate out of former Ambassador Joe Wilson?
4. Mel Gibson who has even less love for Jews and Israel than Hezbollah's No. 1, Nasrallah?
5. The Bush Twins cooking up their very own methamphetamine lab in the bowling alley basement of the White House's West Wing?
6. Did Hezbollah kidnap Michael Jackson from Bahrain and are about to unleash him on the Middle East as a Rambo-like one man murder machine?

Gee, no. Instead, it is this which sounds eerily like some of the conspiracy theories that still make the rounds about what happened on September 11th, 2001: unmanned planes used as suicide bombs:

Hizbullah's chief, Hassan Nasrallah, spent the past two years bragging about a remote-control aircraft that could carry an explosive device to strike a target anywhere inside Israel. He finally put that threat into action a few weeks ago, during the Lebanon war, launching three of the pilotless planes toward Israeli targets—including two on the war's last day. They were Iranian-built Ababil unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), capable of carrying an 88-pound warhead for up to 150 miles. The Israelis say Hizbullah received at least 12 UAVs from Iran before the war—meaning that Nasrallah may still have a small arsenal of them hidden away for future use.

Many theorists, citing some studies done by the U.S. military in the immediate years leading up to September 2001, speculate that one or more of the four alleged hijacked plans were not so much flown by terrorists (and if you recall, many of those originally listed as the 9-11 hijackers have turned up alive in other countries) as by remote control.

While this sounds whacky, you would really have to study the rather large body of research to understand all that this entails.