Black Widow attempted New Year Moscow attack but blew herself up by mistake

telegraph.co.uk ^ | 28 January 2011 | Andrew Osborn

[rdl6989]

A "Black Widow" suicide bomber planned a terrorist attack in central Moscow on New Year's Eve but was killed when an unexpected text message set off her bomb too early, according to Russian security sources.

The unnamed woman, who is thought to be part of the same group that struck Moscow's Domodedovo airport on Monday, intended to detonate a suicide belt on a busy square near Red Square on New Year's Eve in an attack that could have killed hundreds.

Security sources believe a spam message from her mobile phone operator wishing her a happy new year received just hours before the planned attack triggered her suicide belt, killing her but nobody else.

She was at her Moscow safe house at the time getting ready with two accomplices, both of whom survived and were seen fleeing the scene.

[eater-of-toast]

Pretty sure her message alert read, “You’ve got fail!”

[gleeaikin]

Spam ping-a-ling

[Jeff Winston]

[DemforBush]

“Security sources believe a spam message from her mobile phone operator wishing her a happy new year received just hours before the planned attack triggered her suicide belt, killing her but nobody else.”

I *do* so love a happy ending.

Too bad the other bomb-packing terrorists didn’t share in her fate.

[TheOldLady]

Don’t you just love a happy ending? Too bad her two accomplices escaped.

[TheOldLady]

It couldn’t have been all that great a bomb if her two accomplices escaped. That safe house wasn’t so safe.

[HiTech RedNeck]

indeed she had a blast of a new year lol...

[HiTech RedNeck]

Reminds me of how the Weather Underground ground blew themselves up in March 1970 when one smuck dropped the dynamite.

Dynamite or something else? Normally dynamite needs a blasting cap -- it won't detonate from, say, falling on the floor.

[rdl6989]

Btw, A blessed and happy New Year to you rdl6989.

Thank you Cindy. Happy New Year to you.

[FreeAtlanta]

I prefer calling them DEBs, “dog excrement bombers”.

[metmom]

A "Black Widow" suicide bomber planned a terrorist attack in central Moscow on New Year's Eve but was killed when an unexpected text message set off her bomb too early, according to Russian security sources.

Just when I was cussing out spam text messages.

They may be an answer to prayer.

[AuH2ORepublican]

“The dead woman has not been identified. Her handler, a 24-year-old woman from the internal Muslim Russian republic of Dagestan, has been named as Zeinat Suyunova. Her husband is apparently still serving time in jail for himself being a member of a radical Islamist terror group.”

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So, putting two and two together, it is clear that the “Black Widow” bomber must be Amish.

[IncPen]

Did you hear that Joan Rivers called her ‘Blackie O.”?

I think it’s really interesting and worth pointing out that NO ONE is doing fashion pieces on Moo-chelle.

And they did them on the frumpy Laura Bush, for God’s sake.

[Hatteras]

Spy vs. Spy....

[dennisw]

Moscow is full of Muslims who have migrated there from the periphery of the old USSR empire. My guess is Moscow has a greater percentage of Muslims than London

Muslims are 33% of the people living in Moscow...so claims one website http://centralasia.imb.org/encounter/moscow.html

[MortMan]

Ironically, the text message said “Good Luck!” ;-P

[Slings and Arrows]

I hate false advertising.

[TheOldLady]

Bait and explode?

[Slings and Arrows]

Guerrilla marketing.

[TheOldLady]

*Snort* [giggles]