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| Iraq |
| Pictured: The dramatic moment a 15-year-old Iraqi suicide bomber gave herself up |
| 2008-08-27 |
| I'll let you click the link. A semi-revealing image or two of the teenager as they prepare to get the thing off her, but it's done out of necessity and part of the story and so it should be told to lend context. Her story is self-conflicting, but it might be explained by her being drugged by the terrorists as part of the process. She looks pretty whacked/stressed/emotional/confused. Just like the terrorists like it. There is a great shot of the suicide vest itself on display. Doesn't look like much, but it's been plenty effective. Does anyone know why there are so many granny knots in the wiring? And what's the story with the multi-colored explosive bricks? |
| Posted by:gorb |
| #8 Maybe blowing themselves up is Iraqis way of fun. Let's cut them some slack |
| Posted by: Pancho Velvet 2008-08-27 17:09 |
| #7 The IBM technician tied a knot in the power cord to slow it down. "Oh, thank you, that's much better!" thats got some mighty SHAG all over it KBK! <>:) |
| Posted by: Red Dawg 2008-08-27 14:03 |
| #6 WOW GORB what a story and the pics are outstanding!! And what a horrible fuxked up sick sub-culture to convince a family to destroy itself.. You know she'll never be right in the head... |
| Posted by: Red Dawg 2008-08-27 13:59 |
| #5 AP, Looks to me like her primer cord was spliced from short ends. Poor girl, did'nt even get good primer. It looks to be two pipe bombs between some home made plastic. cheap deal, only needs two detonators. But then my extensive background in explosives is relagated to duck and cover!! AP, got the tray!!! Way cool!!! |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2008-08-27 11:26 |
| #4 Are you sure that that those red cords are wires? It looks more like primacord to me. The granny knots could be splices, which would make sense. Lace the individual packets of explosive to one central detonation point with lengths of primacord explosive, then one detonator sets off the show on the end of the primacord string. That is a lot of explosive on the vest. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul in Tok, AK 2008-08-27 10:41 |
| #3 This isn't kids play. She was in deep shit and did the right thing. At least no one was killed. |
| Posted by: JitterBug 2008-08-27 10:01 |
| #2 Only the red ones have detonators? Knots: a devilish Paleo invention: precise detonation sequencing. It reminds me of the secretary who was scared of her new Selectric: "It's just too fast, the way that thing flies around when you press a key. The IBM technician tied a knot in the power cord to slow it down. "Oh, thank you, that's much better!" |
| Posted by: KBK 2008-08-27 09:21 |
| #1 Interesting to see the transference of suicide bombers and vest wearers and using females and using even young people as an escalation of the extreme paleo and hezbollah type terrorist. It would be a demographic and geographic exercise to plot the spread of this disease and timeline of its movement from Israel to Iraq to Turkey to Afghanistan et.al. This is more than just Jihadi religious fever - this is something even more psychotic and genetically based. |
| Posted by: Jack is Back! 2008-08-27 09:12 |