"Oopsie!" --- rick Begin forwarded message:
> From: DS > > http://www.vancouversun.com/story_print.html?id=4172993 > > > Text message blows up Moscow suicide bomber by accident > > By Andrew Osborn > The Daily Telegraph > January 26, 2011 > A "Black Widow" suicide bomber planned a terrorist attack in central Moscow > on New Year's Eve but was killed when an unexpected text message set off her > bomb too early, according to Russian security sources. > > The unnamed woman, who is thought to be part of the same group that struck > Moscow's Domodedovo airport on Monday, intended to detonate a suicide belt > near Red Square on New Year's Eve in an attack that could have killed > hundreds. > > Security sources believe a message from her mobile phone operator wishing her > a happy new year received just hours before the planned attack triggered her > suicide belt, killing her at a safe house. > > Islamist terrorists in Russia often use mobile phones as detonators. The > bomber's handler, who is usually watching their charge, sends the bomber a > text message in order to set off his or her explosive belt at the moment when > it is thought they can inflict maximum casualties. > > The dead woman has not been identified, but her husband is apparently serving > time in jail for being a member of a radical Islamist terror group. > > Security sources believe the New Year's Eve bomber and the airport bombers > may have been members of a suicide squad trained in Pakistan's al-Qaida > strongholds which was sent to target the Russian capital's transport system. > > Nobody has been arrested in connection with Monday's bombing, which left 35 > people dead. Police are trying to identify the severed head of a male suicide > bomber recovered from the scene. > _______________________________________________ Infowarrior mailing list [email protected] https://attrition.org/mailman/listinfo/infowarrior
