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| Iraq |
| Bombmakers Losing Their Touch? |
| 2006-10-26 |
| What's really going on here? Terrorists remote detonating a bomb car with unwitting passengers? Premature detonation before the terrorists could park it and get away? And how does a vehicle, small or otherwise, full of explosives manage to blow up in a marketplace and not kill anyone outside the vehicle, and even leave a survivor in the vehicle? How do we know the vehicle occupants were 'civilians'? How does one define 'civilian' there anyway? VEHICLE BLAST CLAIMS LIVES IN HUSAYBAH, IRAQ CAMP AL ASAD, Iraq – A vehicle exploded in a marketplace claiming several lives and injuring others Tuesday in the Iraq/Syria border city of Husaybah, Iraq. A small vehicle loaded with explosives and carrying three Iraqi civilians detonated, killing two and injuring one. A bystander was also injured in the blast. Of the two occupants killed, one was declared dead at the scene while the other died while being transported to a local hospital by Husaybah Police who were the first to arrive at the scene to administer first-aid. Police transported the injured occupant and bystander—an Iraqi woman—to a local hospital for further treatment. Their condition is unknown at this time. |
| Posted by:Glenmore |
| #16 At what point does a civilian become an insurgent and an insurgent then become a terrorist? The lines are much too grey. Are they insurgents when they are fighting but then civilians when they die or are injured? Used to be we would de-humanize the enemy, now we victimize the enemy. Suppose that makes us the enemy then. |
| Posted by: bool 2006-10-26 11:19 |
| #15 The effects of the Intellgence campaign against bomb makers is bearing fruit if the are sploding themselves. |
| Posted by: Oldspook 2006-10-26 11:15 |
| #14 "Unsafe at any speed." |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2006-10-26 11:11 |
| #13 Boo, hoo. Some poor civilian bombmakers killed themselves. Boo, hoo. |
| Posted by: anymouse 2006-10-26 11:09 |
| #12 A small vehicle loaded with explosives and carrying three Iraqi civilians detonated,... Vehicles are now loading themselves with explosives? I think my head is in a quagmire now. |
| Posted by: bool 2006-10-26 10:55 |
| #11 Could have been on an explosives delivery run and hit a bad pothole. |
| Posted by: Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-10-26 09:53 |
| #10 Maybe it was a Pinto and someone rear-ended it. Might not have been an attack at all. |
| Posted by: Gluger Gluns4918 2006-10-26 09:10 |
| #9 Bomb makers losing their touch? We can only hope. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2006-10-26 08:09 |
| #8 doubtful if they are running low on "number 3's" Of course, Chilet Crealet6299, but it sure looks like we've gotten inside their training cycle. The quality of their work has been falling for a while, no? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-10-26 07:34 |
| #7 .com, yea, that's the one. |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2006-10-26 05:18 |
| #6 doubtful if they are running low on "number 3's" .. They've only just started using their first cousins , still millions to go .. Its a (inbred) family business |
| Posted by: Chilet Crealet6299 2006-10-26 04:38 |
| #5 Was it a VW Polo? |
| Posted by: .com 2006-10-26 03:13 |
| #4 For a lot of the MSM, an ounce of plastique is a huge amount. Could have easily been a transport vehicle that had an unintended detonation, the level of expertise is dropping since so many of the better bomb-makers have been rounded up lately. Also sounds like that vehicle did not have any of the fragmentation enhancements added : nails, ball bearings, scrap metal pieces. |
| Posted by: Shieldwolf 2006-10-26 02:47 |
| #3 Maybe "loaded" means that some explosives had been loaded into the car, and not that the car was chockablock with them? |
| Posted by: Iblis 2006-10-26 02:08 |
| #2 Remember that car ad that has to be pulled as it was deemed so horribly un-PC? The one with a splodey. I am starting to think the manufacturer was not kidding. ;-) |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2006-10-26 01:34 |
| #1 Maybe they're finally running low on Number Threes. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2006-10-26 01:26 |