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DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
Fri Feb 5, 2016, 07:09 AM Feb 2016

A terror-attack in Mogadishu. Spoiler: You will laugh.

http://gawker.com/report-man-ejected-from-somali-plane-in-midair-was-sui-1757112253

Decide 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 OP
Nothing new. Archae Feb 2016 #1
All I can say is: Oneironaut Feb 2016 #2
I hope he was alive during the fall to see the plane continuing on FLPanhandle Feb 2016 #3
As Gawker put it... backscatter712 Feb 2016 #4

Archae

(46,327 posts)
1. Nothing new.
Fri Feb 5, 2016, 07:24 AM
Feb 2016

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?

FLPanhandle

(7,107 posts)
3. I hope he was alive during the fall to see the plane continuing on
Fri Feb 5, 2016, 08:12 AM
Feb 2016

His last thought being "Fuck, I'm a failure".

backscatter712

(26,355 posts)
4. As Gawker put it...
Fri Feb 5, 2016, 08:43 AM
Feb 2016

"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.

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