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2010-08-23 Africa Horn

Police display body of man killed by his own bomb

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Posted by Fred 2010-08-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top
File under: al-Shabaab

#1 How'd they collect his body - industrial-sized squeege?

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-08-23 00:03|| 2010-08-23 00:03|| Front Page Top

#2 ...nah. Just use a truffle hunter. Remember to be quick enough to pick up the piece before he swallows it or not.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-08-23 00:27|| 2010-08-23 00:27|| Front Page Top

#3 I wonder if the CIA ran a weekend special on short fuses?

Posted by Mike Ramsey 2010-08-23 02:20|| 2010-08-23 02:20|| Front Page Top

#4 Somali security officials often blame al-Shabaab, the Islamist group fighting the TFG, for using inexperienced bomb handlers.

Did you mean to expose your sympathies so directly? Or did you mean to say "claim" instead of "blame"?

Posted by Bobby 2010-08-23 06:12|| 2010-08-23 06:12|| Front Page Top

#5 Man: What's that pile of...er, stuff?
Cop: Suicide bomber. Or what's left of him.
Man: And that over there?
Cop: Same guy
Man: And that and that and that?
Cop: Yep.

Posted by SteveS 2010-08-23 15:24|| 2010-08-23 15:24|| Front Page Top

#6 I've been reading very old "Orphan Annie" Comic strips, Warbucks took over a middle eastern kingdom, after a few months a state department official asked him how he was keeping from being overthrown, Warbucks replied "You hear those explosions? That's because I give the people a cut rate on Lots of defective dynamite I manufacture, as long as you hear those explosions, all is well."

Damn good idea there.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2010-08-23 19:02|| 2010-08-23 19:02|| Front Page Top

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