Suicide bomber in Russia killed by spam?

[Aragorn]

So is this the first positive thing spammers can say they've accomplished?


Complete article from The Telegraph.

Black Widow attempted New Year Moscow attack but blew herself up by mistake

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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 on a busy square near Red Square on New Year's Eve in an attack that could have killed hundreds.

Security sources believe a spam 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 but nobody else.

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The phones are usually kept switched off until the very last minute but in this case, Russian security sources believe, the terrorists were careless.

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[Mr. Laser Beam]

I thought this was going to show the woman being crushed by a giant tin of Spam dropped on her.

 

[Jack Bauer]

So did I. Hope the bitch enjoys hell...

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

So what is the reward that women suicide bombers expect in paradise?

 

[Deranged Nasat]

So if you were in Red Square on New Year's Eve, you have to confront the fact that a spam message from a mobile phone operator might well have saved your life.

I don't know if that's frightening, hilarious or just embarrassing.

 

[Tora Ziyal]

So if you were in Red Square on New Year's Eve, you have to confront the fact that a spam message from a mobile phone operator might well have saved your life.

I don't know if that's frightening, hilarious or just embarrassing.

I'll go w/ frightening and hilarious for the people who were there, embarrassing for the terrorists.

I actually celebrated one New Year's Eve in Red Square in the late 1980's. Fabulous experience! Picturing that crowd being blown up... OMG...

 

[Deranged Nasat]

So if you were in Red Square on New Year's Eve, you have to confront the fact that a spam message from a mobile phone operator might well have saved your life.

I don't know if that's frightening, hilarious or just embarrassing.

I'll go w/ frightening and hilarious for the people who were there, embarrassing for the terrorists.

I actually celebrated one New Year's Eve in Red Square in the late 1980's. Fabulous experience! Picturing that crowd being blown up... OMG...

Yes, I imagine it would have caused terrible damage and loss of life.

 

[RJDiogenes]

"Welcome! You've got-- BOOM!"

However it happened, I'm glad the attack backfired and nobody was hurt.

 

[Capn Flukie]

Ok, so I do live in the Twilight Zone.

 

[AJBryant]

So what is the reward that women suicide bombers expect in paradise?

Really. I think HELL would be finding yourself yoked to 72 virgins...

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

So what is the reward that women suicide bombers expect in paradise?

Really. I think HELL would be finding yourself yoked to 72 virgins...

... and rather than 72 houris, some scholars reckon that the whole thing is a mistranslation from a Syriac phrase referring to bunches of grapes -- hopefully sour ones.

 

[Trekker4747]

See, this is what happens when you keep sending people requests to join Farmville!

 

[SeerSGB]

See, now if I was National Security/Homeland Security (whatever the variant is for said nation), I'd just start randomly txting every cellphone in the nation under the guise of testing a emergency alert system. Someone goes "boom", then you found your terrorist....or someone that forget to turn off their phone at the gas pump.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

or someone that forget to turn off their phone at the gas pump.

That's just an urban legend. Cellphones don't really do that. Linky

 

[SeerSGB]

or someone that forget to turn off their phone at the gas pump.

That's just an urban legend. Cellphones don't really do that. Linky

It was a joke.

Though it would suck for the bomber is he/she was having second thoughts.

"I can't do it...I've got to much to live for...I'm calling my girlfriend and we'll go to the cops and we'll tell 'em everything (turns on phone) Hey a new text message from Tracf..BOOM!"

 

[Jack Bauer]

So what is the reward that women suicide bombers expect in paradise?

They get to be one of the 72 virgins.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

So what is the reward that women suicide bombers expect in paradise?

They get to be one of the 72 virgins.

... or a grape.

 

[RJDiogenes]

The Grape God would never allow that.

 

[bigdaddy]

Awesome!

Go spam!

So what is the reward that women suicide bombers expect in paradise?

They get to be one of the 72 virgins.

... or a grape.

Or Spam... the food.