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ISIS using bombs containing live SCORPIONS in effort to spread panic
UK Daily Mail ^ | December 16, 2014 | Annabel Grossman

Posted on 12/16/2014 6:50:37 AM PST by C19fan

Militants fighting for the Islamic State in Iraq have unveiled their latest terror tactic - bombs containing hundreds of live scorpions designed to spread fear among their enemies. Canisters packed with poisonous varieties of scorpion are being blasted into towns and villages, which explode on impact - scattering the scorpions and causing panic among the innocent local population.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: History; Pets/Animals; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: isis; scorpions
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When is ISIS going to start catapulting plague victims?
1 posted on 12/16/2014 6:50:37 AM PST by C19fan
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To the writers of the article, it’s venomous, not poisonous and thanks to the fear mongering of the media about exotic pets, this tactic will be at least decently effective to the uneducated, ignorant public.

If people learned and educated themselves about things like scorpions, spiders, snakes, etc.... this wouldn’t be an issue. Sadly, people are cowards and fear just about everything now days.


2 posted on 12/16/2014 6:53:20 AM PST by BCR #226 (02/07 SOT www.extremefirepower.com...The BS stops when the hammer drops.)
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Not the first time that's been done.
3 posted on 12/16/2014 6:53:21 AM PST by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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Ooh! Pieces of dead scorpions all over the place!

Gimme a break: what a worthless weapon.

4 posted on 12/16/2014 6:54:02 AM PST by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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"Uhhhhh. Excuse me for asking, Commodore, but won't the scorpions be blown to smithereens?"
5 posted on 12/16/2014 6:54:46 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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When is ISIS going to start catapulting plague victims?

Or injecting "volunteers" with ebola or (if they can get it) smallpox and flying them here. But we don't need quarantines. No, no, no. Bad things will happen if we try to do that. I haven't quite figured out what that is, but it will be bad if we close the border to disease.

6 posted on 12/16/2014 6:57:01 AM PST by KarlInOhio (The IRS: either criminally irresponsible in backup procedures or criminally responsible of coverup.)
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Canisters packed with poisonous varieties of scorpion are being blasted into towns and villages, which explode on impact - scattering the scorpions and causing panic among the innocent local population.

Wouldn't the impact and the explosion tend to kill the scorpions?

7 posted on 12/16/2014 6:57:28 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Texas Eagle

Yep, first thoughts here as well...

Maybe they should use dogs with bees that come out of their mouths when they bark...


8 posted on 12/16/2014 6:58:07 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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The “bad thing” that happens when you prevent your population from being infected with a third world killer plague

is that your population isn’t “forced to care” about other countries with a third world plague.


9 posted on 12/16/2014 6:59:09 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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"What the heck was that?"

"I don't know, but it didn't help my hemorrhoids any..."


10 posted on 12/16/2014 6:59:43 AM PST by moovova
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Revelation 9 - The Fifth Trumpet:

And it was given them that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when it striketh a man.

11 posted on 12/16/2014 7:02:23 AM PST by Slyfox (To put on the mind of George Washington read ALL of Deuteronomy 28, then read his Farewell Address)
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Ah! The article explains the ancient technique. Scorpion bombs are covered clay pots containing live scorpions. They are placed in the area of the attack. The “bomb” occurs when an unsuspecting person comes along and opens the pot. Out pop the mad scorpions ready to bite the closest human in retaliation for their imprisonment. :-/


12 posted on 12/16/2014 7:03:21 AM PST by Madam Theophilus (iI)
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IF they were really serious they’d use pork instead of scorpions.


13 posted on 12/16/2014 7:04:16 AM PST by kjam22 (my music video "If My People" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74b20RjILy4)
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Indeed it does. Noticed that after posting my link. Crazy Romans. :-)


14 posted on 12/16/2014 7:05:46 AM PST by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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Indeed, those scorpions might be alive when they are put into the shells, but I don't see them surviving the trip.

This is what passes for a good idea, when you have a group of goat cuddlers that don't have a clue physics is.

15 posted on 12/16/2014 7:11:41 AM PST by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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“IF they were really serious they’d use pork instead of scorpions.”

We should do that to ISIS. It guarantees they do not get their virgins and after they whine about it, we up the effort.


16 posted on 12/16/2014 7:16:04 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (You can't spell liberal without label.)
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To: C19fan

More and more, it seems Isis is almost a caricature of a terrorist group.


17 posted on 12/16/2014 7:16:36 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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I anticipate a UN resolution soon condemning this as cruelty to Arachnida and in violation of the rules of war for arthropods.


18 posted on 12/16/2014 7:22:42 AM PST by Temujinshordes
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I didn't realize they were this out of luck???


19 posted on 12/16/2014 7:32:19 AM PST by Lx (Do you like it? Do you like it, Scott? I call it, "Mr. & Mrs. Tenorman Chili.")
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Bump!


20 posted on 12/16/2014 7:44:33 AM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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