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‘Please, Save My Life.’ A Bomb Specialist Defuses Explosives Strapped to Children
WSJ ^ | 26 July 2019 | By Joe Parkinson

Posted on 07/26/2019 12:32:46 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

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To: Verbosus

It is a long and disturbing article, many young girls are mentioned, most survived, not all. Photos of the survivers too!
Re-Reading the article and looking at the photos just rips your heart out. Not destruction and gore, but the eyes of the survivors.

I will attempt to answer any questions, but I was recently dinged for posting too much and do not want to cause trouble.

I copied this from FR about a week ago, regrettably, I did not keep the posters name:

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3744210/posts

Bookmarklets - Get around paywalls, Fancy text for FB, Legal hacking tricks made easy!, Codepen, April 23, 2019, posted by Bon Mots. It has worked really well for me. I’ll get a Twitter page with multiple Tweets and usually one links me to the full article. Kudos to Bon Mots for posting this solution back in April.
Here’s the direct link: Bookmarklets. Drag the “Paywall Killer” to your bookmark bar. I renamed mine simply “Paywall.”

I actually coded a paywall penetration tester so that you can try various methods of getting past a paywall. One of them usually works unless it’s a hard paywall - these tricks are all client side.
https://codepen.io/bookmarklets/pen/MLxoJJ
Drag the ‘Paywall Penetration Tester’ to your bookmarks bar and play with it when you find a paywall.


21 posted on 07/26/2019 3:12:09 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
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To: Verbosus
Does anyone know if the girl lived?

Yes, two girls mentioned and pictured both survived. Both were apparently kidnapped as pre-teens, 'married' to Boko Haram (BH) terrorists, and 'volun-told' to be martyrs. One of them, a native Muslim, is now employed by a mosque to do a bomb check on female attendees.

It is an absolute nightmare there as the BH follows the old routine of a constant cycle of 'improvement' in disguising and trapping these bombs.

22 posted on 07/26/2019 3:22:15 PM PDT by SES1066 (Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
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To: NEMDF

I’ve worked with a lot of Nigerians over the years, they’ve all been good people.

Really, there are enough good people in Nigeria to make it an economic powerhouse, but there’s just too many other bad characters there holding them back.


23 posted on 07/26/2019 3:25:32 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

I’ve worked with a lot of Nigerians over the years, they’ve all been good people.

I worked with just two, both graduate engineers and real gentlemen with a very good sense of humor.
One a Canadian the other a US Citizen and a US Navy veteran.

When I had the time I’d ask dumb questions, like what kind of rifle did you carry? ??? For the lions and tigers when you left the house???
No rifles; all the animals were in the zoo!

The Canadain worked way north on a mining project, does it ever get warm?
Oh yes! It warms by the 4th of July, he said in a pleasant English accent. Then you can take your long underwear off...wash it and put it back on!

Besides fun, they were helpful and productive workers.

Sad for me to think of them in light of this article.


24 posted on 07/26/2019 3:51:36 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

The phrase “alive jihadist” should become a oxymoron.


25 posted on 07/26/2019 4:00:43 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: libstripper

She said white men commit most killings and we all need to be profiled.


The numbers are roughly
50% black (mostly black victims)
33% Hispanic
17% White and Asian


26 posted on 07/26/2019 7:21:43 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Fiddlstix

bttt


27 posted on 07/27/2019 7:32:07 AM PDT by GOPJ (The black community created hellholes in many of our beautiful cities. Shame on them.)
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