Suicide Bomber Blown Up Early By Spam Text

[Brain Damage]

A little late, but I just saw this today and found it very interesting and sadistically funny (i have an awfully dark sense of humor)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...ow-attack-but-blew-herself-up-by-mistake.html

The unnamed woman, who is thought to be part of the same group that struck Moscow's Domodedovo airport on Monday, intended to detonate a suicide belt on a busy square near Red Square on New Year's Eve in an attack that could have killed hundreds.

Security sources believe a spam message from her mobile phone operator wishing her a happy new year received just hours before the planned attack triggered her suicide belt, killing her but nobody else.

She was at her Moscow safe house at the time getting ready with two accomplices, both of whom survived and were seen fleeing the scene.

Islamist terrorists in Russia often use cheap unused mobile phones as detonators. The bomber's handler, who is usually watching their charge, sends the bomber a text message in order to set off his or her explosive belt at the moment when it is thought they can inflict maximum casualties.

The phones are usually kept switched off until the very last minute but in this case, Russian security sources believe, the terrorists were careless.

There's more to the article, but that's the jist of it.

 

[Spider-Vader]

HA-HA YES! Serves that scumbag right!

 

[Nell2ThaIzzay]

That's awesome in a very dark and twisted way.

 

[Hotwire]

One job to do, and she blew it.

 

[Matt]

I wanted to think of this as divine intervention....then I saw where it happened and I knew immediately who was behind the spam text:

Spoiler

The lesson? Don't **** with Putin.

 

[Nell2ThaIzzay]

One job to do, and she blew it.

 

[Mace Bloodstone]

not sure if messing with Russia is a good idea.

 

[Pink Ranger]

So basically this is the one positive thing e-mail direct marketing has ever done in the history of computing.

 

[terry78]

If Mad Magazine was still relevant, this would have been one of the sight gags.

 

[Wolfwood]

Dang, I thought this was the second time it happened. It's such a crazy story, like a urban legend terrorists would tell each other.

 

[craigdbfan]

 

[kane9321]

thats how you do it in mother russia

 

[Duke]

You can actually say, she blew it.

 

[Lencho01]

You can actually say, she blew it.

 

[the_ultimate_evil]

1 in 5 bombers suffer from premature detonation

 

[THE MR. TERRIFIC]

One job to do, and she blew it.

I can just hear Arnold's voice when I read this!

 

[Sentinel X]

In Soviet Russia phones silence you

 

[Sawyer]

She went to the Wile E. Coyote School for Terrorists, I see.

 

[Brain Damage]

The responses to this thread are great.
I'm glad I brought out the sadistic dark humor in all of you.

 

[Mike_D202]

In Soviet Russia phones silence you

 

[Pink Ranger]

I guess this was a "blast e-mail" of a different kind.

 

[chamber-music]

Sounds like a scene from Four Lions