According to the newspaper, a news site called Vocativ "which mines social media for its scoops" discovered a "comprehensive plan to target coalition aircraft operating against the extremists in Iraq," uploaded via Telegram messaging app.
The plan apparently involves strapping a lightweight bomb to a bird specially trained to fly into a jet and detonate the explosive device.
According to the newspaper, the sympathizer suggested using an Urea bomb for this purpose – a device that he believes was used by Daesh militants to destroy the Russian Metrojet plane that crashed in the Sinai Peninsula in late October.
He also claimed that two particular species of birds are best suited for this nefarious purpose: the peregrine falcon and Rüppell’s vulture. And despite the fact that the vulture actually resides in Africa, he argued that it "can be smuggled or found in zoos across Syria and Iraq," the newspaper adds.
Earlier this year unconfirmed reports suggested that some Daesh militants actually attempted outfitting ordinary chickens with explosive devices apparently in order to use the birds as suicide bombers, the Washington Post points out.
