Suicide Bomb Training Class Blows Up in Iraq

By NCD on Mon, 02/10/2014 - 12:15pm |

Are there student loans for suicide bombing classes? Thanks to George W. Bush they now have educational programs for terrorists in Iraq.

BAGHDAD — A group of Sunni militants attending a suicide bombing training class at a camp north of Baghdad were killed on Monday when their commander unwittingly conducted a demonstration with a belt that was packed with explosives, army and police officials said......

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Hollywood wouldn't buy this story as a script, too ridiculous.

BTW Zawahiri disowned them like a week or two ago. Coincidence? Or intimate knowledge of chaotic incompetence?

by artappraiser on Mon, 02/10/2014 - 1:50pm

Be they Islamic (or Christian) fundamentalists, or Republicans:

The power of genuine zealotry is not measured by transient success in the earthly universe, but by conviction of the liberating truth of unbending ideology, even when confronted with utter catastrophe.

by NCD on Mon, 02/10/2014 - 2:39pm

Meanwhile, Zawahiri et. al. seem quite pleased with a "heroic knight" who chose the Al Nusrah Front over ISIS:

Al Nusrah Front praises Chechen commander killed in Aleppo
By Bill Roggio, The Long War Journal, February 10, 2014

The Al Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant, al Qaeda's official branch in Syria, praised a Chechen jihadist commander who was killed during recent fighting to take control of a prison in Aleppo. The Chechen, known as Saifullah al Shishani, had defected from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham last fall and joined the Al Nusrah Front.

Muhammad al Julani, the emir of the Al Nusrah Front who has sworn allegiance to al Qaeda leader Ayman al Zawahiri, praised Saifullah as a "heroic knight," in a statement that was released on Al Nusrah's Twitter account. The statement was obtained and translated by the SITE Intelligence Group.

"Here the heroic knight has dismounted after a good march of jihad, which began in the Caucasus and ended in the Levant," Julani said, according to SITE. "Saifullah was killed while moving with all his might to liberate the Muslim men and women from the prison of the tyrant [Bashar al Assad]." [....]

by artappraiser on Mon, 02/10/2014 - 2:14pm

...The instructor, Ho ma'ir abu-B'art was heard to express his final words when realization of what he had done overcame him. Rather that the customary "God is great!" exclamation, puzzled observers have quoted what they believe to have been a coded message to his surviving students..

."D'oh"

by jollyroger on Mon, 02/10/2014 - 5:44pm

Which surviving students were heard to say in unison: Gesundheit!

LOL.

by Peter Schwartz on Mon, 02/10/2014 - 8:44pm

Hollywood wouldn't buy this story as a script, too ridiculous.

You just know Mel Brooks is working on this right now, don't you?

by Peter Schwartz on Mon, 02/10/2014 - 8:46pm

It's good to be the king...

by jollyroger on Mon, 02/10/2014 - 9:01pm

This brings up a difficult theological dilemma. Do they get their 72 virgins in heaven? I mean their hearts were in the right place. They were planning to kill themselves while murdering as many innocent children, women, and men as possible. Just like god wants them to, and if they had, god would have rewarded them with 72 virgins. But they didn't actually murder any innocent people.

Is it the thought that counts? Or do you have to actually rack up the numbers to get the virgins?

by ocean-kat on Mon, 02/10/2014 - 10:54pm

Do you know if the Kamikaze pilots received their reward first?

by Resistance on Mon, 02/10/2014 - 11:05pm

As luck would have it, I myself am named after a suicide bomber, so of course the topic is of particular interest to me.

My personal position is, get paid in front.

by jollyroger on Mon, 02/10/2014 - 11:18pm

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