LastNovember, aUSmanwas sentenced to 17yearsin prison over a plan to fly remote-controlledmodelplanes packed withexplosives into the PentagonandUS Capitol.
Last year, the FBI arrested a man in Boston who planned to use remote-controlled robotic aircraft packed with explosives to attack both the U.S. Pentagon and Capitol building.
IRA, a link that army commanders now say goes back five years, gave it new skills in explosives technology, such as the use of remote-controlled bombs of the kind that almost killed Mr Uribe.