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Errant Text Message Accidentally Detonates Suicide Bomber, Saving Hundreds
TheBlaze.com ^ | January 28, 2011 | Jonathon M. Seidl

Posted on 01/28/2011 7:23:04 AM PST by Errant

The next time you get an annoying mass text message, you might want to think twice before getting upset. It could save your life. At least that’s what happened recently in Russia.

Security sources tell the London Telegraph that a Russian Islamic terrorist plan was foiled on New Year’s Eve when a “Happy New Year” text detonated the terrorist’s suicide bomb prematurely:

(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bomber; femalebombers; islamist; oops; russia; suicidebombing; terrorist
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1 posted on 01/28/2011 7:23:11 AM PST by Errant
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To: Errant

Good job!


2 posted on 01/28/2011 7:24:33 AM PST by OB1kNOb ( Knowledge knows a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom knows not to put it in a fruit salad.)
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To: Errant

Something about this strikes me as funny. Was it an ad for a “big bust”?


3 posted on 01/28/2011 7:25:47 AM PST by Fido969 ("The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax." - Albert Einstein)
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To: Errant

it please me more if it were a British CT agent who sent the text!!


4 posted on 01/28/2011 7:26:24 AM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaeda" and its allies.)
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To: Errant

oops


5 posted on 01/28/2011 7:30:12 AM PST by Outlaw Woman
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To: Errant
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That's a one Ringy Dingy!

6 posted on 01/28/2011 7:32:41 AM PST by silverleaf (All that is necessary for evil to succeed, is that good men do nothing)
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To: Errant
"Happy New Year"... indeed!

Outstanding....

7 posted on 01/28/2011 7:33:23 AM PST by Wings-n-Wind (The main things are the plain things!)
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To: Wings-n-Wind

At least he didn’t miss the fireworks. :)


8 posted on 01/28/2011 7:35:27 AM PST by The Duke
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To: Errant

“Reach out, reach out and touch someone...”


9 posted on 01/28/2011 7:35:54 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: OB1kNOb

So perhaps the spam text messages I get are related to “national security”?


10 posted on 01/28/2011 7:39:50 AM PST by glorgau
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To: OB1kNOb

11 posted on 01/28/2011 7:41:33 AM PST by Errant
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To: Errant
You know that we will soon hear about this from one of the experts--

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Achmed1

12 posted on 01/28/2011 7:42:36 AM PST by Wings-n-Wind (The main things are the plain things!)
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To: Errant

He managed to text a reply before the explosion...”WTF!”


13 posted on 01/28/2011 7:45:20 AM PST by Miles the Slasher
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To: Errant

He managed to text a reply before the explosion...”WTF!”


14 posted on 01/28/2011 7:46:48 AM PST by Miles the Slasher
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To: Errant
More details here: Was Moscow saved from disaster by a text message?
15 posted on 01/28/2011 7:56:24 AM PST by struwwelpeter
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To: The Duke

The terrorist was a she.


16 posted on 01/28/2011 7:58:59 AM PST by rwa265 (Christ my Cornerstone)
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To: struwwelpeter

Dang, son.... I haven’t seen your name on a post for years!


17 posted on 01/28/2011 8:02:58 AM PST by r9etb
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To: Errant

18 posted on 01/28/2011 8:08:03 AM PST by WOBBLY BOB ( "I don't want the majority if we don't stand for something"- Jim Demint)
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To: Miles the Slasher

WTF? I presume you mean Winning the Future. (sarc)


19 posted on 01/28/2011 8:24:12 AM PST by kiltie65
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To: Errant

candygram#


20 posted on 01/28/2011 8:25:28 AM PST by Jim Noble
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