Posted on 02/10/2014 3:41:03 PM PST by smokingfrog
BAGHDAD (AP) An instructor teaching his militant recruits how to make car bombs accidentally set off explosives in his demonstration Monday, killing 21 of them in a huge blast that alerted authorities to the existence of the rural training camp in an orchard north of Baghdad. Nearly two dozen people were arrested, including wounded insurgents trying to hobble away from the scene.
The fatal goof by the al-Qaida breakaway group that dominates the Sunni insurgency in Iraq happened on the same day that the speaker of the Iraqi parliament, a prominent Sunni whom the militants consider a traitor, escaped unhurt from a roadside bomb attack on his motorcade in the northern city of Mosul.
Nevertheless, the events underscored the determination of the insurgents to rebuild and regain the strength they enjoyed in Iraq at the height of the war until U.S.-backed Sunni tribesmen turned against them. The militants are currently battling for control of mainly Sunni areas of western Iraq in a key test of the Shiite-led government's ability to maintain security more than two years after the withdrawal of U.S. troops.
While the Iraqi army has been attacking insurgent training camps in the vast desert of western Anbar province near the Syrian border, it is unusual to find such a camp in the center of the country, just 95 kilometers (60 miles) north of the capital.
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goof ?
Is that like oopsie?
Here’s a little fact for you: did you know that the famous terrorist book “The Anarchists Cookbook” was written by a CIA agent? His name was William Powell. He was an expert at concocting explosives , but every single recipe he but in that book had one crucial element missing. So anybody who tried to create explosives following the instructions in his book wound up blowing themselves up. Back in the violent anti-war era of the 1960’s, that little book killed more domestic terrorists than the entire CIA and FBI combined. And that is exquisitely Machiavellian.
I would be willing to bet there are Muslim training camps
that close to OUR capital.
And if they ever started to use their training I will raise your bet with one of mine that they will use that as the excuse to disarm the law-abiding Americans instead of the Muslim terrorists.
+1
This Saturday evening, AAC in Dallas baybee! Me and She Who Must Be Obeyed are THERE!!!
too bad so sad ;(
Like they used to say at my Job, One Oops is worth Ninety Nine Atta Boys.
LOL!
Lesson one, don’t push this button right h-. Thanks smokingfrog.
I heard a year or two ago that half of suicide bombers don’t kill anybody but themselves. There have even been incidents in Afghanistan where the suicide bombers engaged in a “group hug” before going on a mission, and they embraced each other hard enough to set off the explosives.
That’s heartwarming. :’)
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