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2008-08-27 Iraq

Pictured: The dramatic moment a 15-year-old Iraqi suicide bomber gave herself up

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Posted by gorb 2008-08-27 02:11|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Interesting to see the transference of suicide bombers and vest wearers and using females and using even young people as an escalation of the extreme paleo and hezbollah type terrorist. It would be a demographic and geographic exercise to plot the spread of this disease and timeline of its movement from Israel to Iraq to Turkey to Afghanistan et.al. This is more than just Jihadi religious fever - this is something even more psychotic and genetically based.

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2008-08-27 09:12|| 2008-08-27 09:12|| Front Page Top

#2 Only the red ones have detonators?

Knots: a devilish Paleo invention: precise detonation sequencing.

It reminds me of the secretary who was scared of her new Selectric: "It's just too fast, the way that thing flies around when you press a key. The IBM technician tied a knot in the power cord to slow it down. "Oh, thank you, that's much better!"

Posted by KBK 2008-08-27 09:21|| 2008-08-27 09:21|| Front Page Top

#3 This isn't kids play. She was in deep shit and did the right thing. At least no one was killed.

Posted by JitterBug 2008-08-27 10:01|| 2008-08-27 10:01|| Front Page Top

#4 Are you sure that that those red cords are wires? It looks more like primacord to me. The granny knots could be splices, which would make sense. Lace the individual packets of explosive to one central detonation point with lengths of primacord explosive, then one detonator sets off the show on the end of the primacord string.

That is a lot of explosive on the vest.

Posted by Alaska Paul in Tok, AK 2008-08-27 10:41|| 2008-08-27 10:41|| Front Page Top

#5 AP, Looks to me like her primer cord was spliced from short ends. Poor girl, did'nt even get good primer. It looks to be two pipe bombs between some home made plastic. cheap deal, only needs two detonators. But then my extensive background in explosives is relagated to duck and cover!! AP, got the tray!!! Way cool!!!

Posted by 49 Pan 2008-08-27 11:26|| 2008-08-27 11:26|| Front Page Top

#6 WOW GORB what a story and the pics are outstanding!!

And what a horrible fuxked up sick sub-culture to convince a family to destroy itself..

You know she'll never be right in the head...

Posted by Red Dawg">Red Dawg 2008-08-27 13:59|| 2008-08-27 13:59|| Front Page Top

#7 The IBM technician tied a knot in the power cord to slow it down. "Oh, thank you, that's much better!"

thats got some mighty SHAG all over it KBK! <>:)

Posted by Red Dawg">Red Dawg 2008-08-27 14:03|| 2008-08-27 14:03|| Front Page Top

#8 Maybe blowing themselves up is Iraqis way of fun. Let's cut them some slack

Posted by Pancho Velvet 2008-08-27 17:09|| 2008-08-27 17:09|| Front Page Top

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