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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA terror-attack in Mogadishu. Spoiler: You will laugh.
http://gawker.com/report-man-ejected-from-somali-plane-in-midair-was-sui-1757112253Decide to become a suicide-bomber?
Check.
Get a bomb?
Check.
Pose as a disabled person and smuggle it onboard in your wheelchair?
Check.
Get a window-seat?
Check.
Detonate your bomb?
Check.
Blow a hole in the hull and get sucked out of the airplane while failing to kill other people?
Check.
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A terror-attack in Mogadishu. Spoiler: You will laugh. (Original Post)
DetlefK
Feb 2016
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(46,327 posts)1. Nothing new.
Every year I read about wannabe "terrorists" who blow themselves up accidentally while making bombs.
Remember the suicide bomber training camp, where the instructor blew himself and a bunch of wannabe "martyr" up in Iraq?
Or when the Weather Underground thinned their ranks from a bomb-maker who goofed and blew up their hideout?
Oneironaut
(5,495 posts)2. All I can say is:
FLPanhandle
(7,107 posts)3. I hope he was alive during the fall to see the plane continuing on
His last thought being "Fuck, I'm a failure".
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)4. As Gawker put it...
"This ended up being closer to a Jackass stunt than a terror attack."
That would-be-terrorist could have done more damage by trying to play Beehive Tetherball aboard the aircraft.