When spam saves lives…

A spam text on New Year’s Eve likely blew up “black widow” in her apartment. 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. (Times Colonist)

Mobiledia reported, via Free Republic:

A suicide bomber planning an attack in Moscow on New Year’s Eve was killed in her apartment when her bomb was prematurely detonated by an unexpected text message.

According to Russian security sources, the text message — a remote trigger for a cell phone belt bomb — wished her a happy new year, accidentally setting off the blast. The accident may have saved hundreds of lives, these officials believe, as the woman intended to use the bomb in a suicide attack near Red Square later that night.

The woman is believed to be part of the same group that struck Moscow’s Domodedovo airport on Monday, killing at least 35 people and wounding another 100. Officials haven’t directly said who they believe is behind the terrorist attacks, but anonymous sources have pointed to Islamic North Caucasus rebels, which have been in conflict with the Russian state for over a decade.

Cell phones have become a remote detonator of choice for terrorist groups the world over.

 

ADVERTISEMENT

  1. #1 January 28, 2011 at 5:57 am

    ar05075 commented:

    :-) I needed a good laugh this morning

  2. #2 January 28, 2011 at 6:06 am

    Rick554 commented:

    I rmember at the beginning of the WOT, Police caught some “Arab youths” with a carload of cell phones on the Ohio turnpike. I remember the howls of concern over the “youths” constitutional right to carry a thousand cell phones interstate or somesuch hooey. How soon we forget huh?

  3. #5 January 28, 2011 at 6:36 am

    daryl commented:

    Muslim equivalent of Bonnie and Clyde.
    What was her nickname, “BoomBoom”?

  4. #6 January 28, 2011 at 6:37 am

    ∅ commented:

    Must have attended the Weather Underground School of Bomb Making, otherwise known as “raising the brownstone.”

  5. #7 January 28, 2011 at 7:00 am

    Granny commented:

    Now THAT is what you call the Hand of God!

  6. #8 January 28, 2011 at 7:00 am

    Cutlers bad knee commented:

    Wow that was’nt to bright of her.I wonder if she was part of Obama’s family tree.

  7. #9 January 28, 2011 at 7:05 am

    The All Real Numbers Symbol commented:

    Granny – I’m with you!!

  8. #10 January 28, 2011 at 7:08 am

    pamlinson commented:

    What will our goverment’s response be? Form a committee to oversee a new regulation prohibiting texting while strapping on your bomb belt.

  9. #11 January 28, 2011 at 7:10 am

    Reaganite Republican commented:

    Somebody call Darwin Awards lol

  10. #13 January 28, 2011 at 7:28 am

    Muffin commented:

    I guess she thought she didn’t have any friends. It’s just terrible, really.

    Does she get the virgins and all that or just the raisins? Awful. Better her than others, however.

  11. #14 January 28, 2011 at 7:30 am

    truth teller commented:

    Anyone know the phone numbers of these first century morons? My finger wants to send happy text messages to all of them…

  12. #15 January 28, 2011 at 7:36 am

    Chisum commented:

    Perhaps the police should get the cell numbers of all suspected terrorists and periodically text them. “Is today blow-up day?”

  13. #16 January 28, 2011 at 8:10 am

    The Underground Conservative commented:

    I am presuming the devices came from Acme.

  14. #17 January 28, 2011 at 8:18 am

    Andreas K. commented:

    The irony that spam may have saved the lives of dozens, if not hundreds and blew the b*tch up before she reached her actual target…

  15. #18 January 28, 2011 at 8:32 am

    Stan25 commented:

    Will her relatives collect workmans’ comp? This clearly an on the job accident.

  16. #19 January 28, 2011 at 8:59 am

    Peggy commented:

    I think the government should start sending random spam messages as a matter of course. It might serve as a deterrant and when it doesn’t, oh darn!

  17. #20 January 28, 2011 at 9:24 am

    Mark commented:

    I love a happy ending

  18. #21 January 28, 2011 at 9:28 am

    Rob De Witt commented:

    Social networking in all its glory.

  19. #22 January 28, 2011 at 9:32 am

    Taqiyyotomist commented:

    This makes me wonder whether txt-spam is actually a bad thing after all.

    I wonder how many Muslim groups are now going to lobby for laws banning it.

    #19 Peggy, I was thinking the same thing. We should resist all legislative efforts to ban txt-spam.

    Then again, on the other hand, EOD units might not like it much, not knowing whether the bomb they are attempting to disarm is going to randomly detonate.

  20. #23 January 28, 2011 at 9:50 am

    AuntieMadder commented:

    The Underground Conservative commented: I am presuming the devices came from Acme.

    …As did the text message. A little after-sale marketing to help generate that repeat business that Acme values…well, not this time. Who could have guessed it could actually backfire?

    Beep! Beep!

  21. #24 January 28, 2011 at 9:59 am

    Paul in N. AL commented:

    Cool, an apartment opened up on the market, slightly used. Owner vacated premises prematurely.

  22. #25 January 28, 2011 at 10:00 am

    AuntieMadder commented:

    Muffin commented: I guess she thought she didn’t have any friends. It’s just terrible, really.

    Yep. Wearing a live explosive tends to keep folks away more than b.o. and a bad case of gas combined. Plus the whole aspiring to die young and taking a bunch of unsuspecting infidels down with you when you go thing is a real conversation killer.

  23. #26 January 28, 2011 at 10:02 am

    Warthog commented:

    And I’ll bet she didn’t even want any “Canadian v!@gr@”

    (No matter how cheap…)

  24. #27 January 28, 2011 at 10:14 am

    rbosque commented:

    And all this time I’ve been cursing those spam texts…

  25. #28 January 28, 2011 at 10:16 am

    AuntieMadder commented:

    Rick554, how soon we forget, indeed. I’d forgotten all about that. That was yet another time that criminal profiling/terrorist profiling was right, crying lefturds be damned. Americans are free to collect gadgets and junk and even to haul our crap collections around with us. But the average dumpster-diver and his car trunk full of discarded, mostly-broken electronics and other crap is a far cry from a car load of Islamic jihadi-wannabes with bad attitudes and enough cell phones to make martyrs of every cab driver in New York City.

  26. #29 January 28, 2011 at 10:37 am

    auntie em commented:

    2010 Darwin award recipient!

  27. #30 January 28, 2011 at 10:40 am

    auntie em commented:

    Seriously though it is extremely tragic that she went straight to Hell.

  28. #31 January 28, 2011 at 11:14 am

    No Man commented:

    Spam is way too salty.

  29. #32 January 28, 2011 at 11:16 am

    Real American Moron commented:

    No way!

    Cute couple . . .

  30. #33 January 28, 2011 at 11:43 am

    Stuart commented:

    I hope you will all join me in wishing Islamists everywhere a happy new year.

  31. #34 January 28, 2011 at 11:58 am

    Joanne commented:

    Wishing her a Happy New Year? Well, she probably believed she was going to heaven to be someone’s born-again virgin, so good riddens.

  32. #35 January 28, 2011 at 12:41 pm

    The Underground Conservative commented:

    Auntie Maddie,

    The device was the official Wile E. Coyote endorsed model.

  33. #36 January 28, 2011 at 1:13 pm

    Cutlers bad knee commented:

    Well so much for that 2 year contract…….BOOOOOOMMMM..Can you hear me now.(new verizon slogan)….

  34. #37 January 28, 2011 at 1:45 pm

    dallasdan commented:

    LMAO. “Happy New Year,” bitch.

  35. #38 January 28, 2011 at 2:13 pm

    Buffalobob commented:

    In the nanosecond between the time she received the text message and the detonator triggered, did she have time to respond with WTF?

  36. #39 January 28, 2011 at 3:32 pm

    ant commented:

    That is too funny! Between this and the underwear bomber and a number of other failed attempts at mass murder, maybe they should consider whether ‘Allah’ is really on their side.

  37. #40 January 28, 2011 at 6:06 pm

    Alvin commented:

    Bet you can’t do that again?

  38. #41 January 28, 2011 at 9:19 pm

    American Patriot commented:

    What’s her incentive to blow herself up? Does she get male virgins or female ones? Or does she spend eternity as a subjegated concubine being slapped around and forced to wear one of those blankets over her head? Just wondering…..

  39. #42 January 29, 2011 at 1:54 am

    Rose commented:

    Divine Answer to Prayers from Saints for Divine Protection and sudden, unexpected SAVES from evil plots by enemies, for the curse of the evil plots to fall back on the heads of the evil ones, for their traps for others to fall upon their own heads, snatching the innocent from the grasp of evil enemies in unexpected and unforeseen ways.

    Prayers going up for more and more Divine Rescues – Praise be to the God of Israel, the God of Abraham, Moses, and David. Thank you, Jesus the Messiah, Who breaks the Yoke of Bondage with His Anointing. Amen!

  40. #43 January 29, 2011 at 2:00 am

    Rose commented:

    1 Kings 22:34 But a certain man drew a bow at a venture [without a target in sight, he shot into the air, perchance] and smote [Ahab] the king of Israel between the joints of the armor. So he said to the driver of his chariot, Turn around and carry me out of the army, for I am wounded.

    35. The battle increased that day, and [Ahab] the king was propped up in his chariot facing the Syrians, and at nightfall he died. And the blood of his wound flowed onto the floor of the chariot.

    36. And there went a cry throughout the army about sundown, saying, Every man to his city and his own country,

    37. For the king is dead! And [Ahab] was brought to Samaria, where they buried him.

    38. And they washed [his] chariot by the pool of Samaria, where the harlots bathed, and the dogs licked up his blood, as the Lord had predicted.

  41. #44 January 29, 2011 at 2:07 am

    Rose commented:

    Did you know the word for Mb>Strong’s H8537 – tom – “VENTURE”M/b> also means “integrity” which means “IN FULL MEASURE” which is the promise of HARVEST – In full measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over.

    http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H8537&t=KJV

    Strong’s Concordance Hebrew Dictionary

  42. #45 January 29, 2011 at 2:25 am

    Rose commented:

    OOPS!!! TYPO:

    Mb>Strong’s H8537 – tom – “VENTURE”M/b>

    is supposed to be:

    Strong’s H8537 – tom – “VENTURE”

  43. #46 January 29, 2011 at 10:59 am

    Keith commented:

    just an idea couldnt cell phone companies send say just a random txt too all cell phones in a terrorist active country? Could weed out a few more.

  44. #47 January 29, 2011 at 12:24 pm

    EODtech commented:

    @22

    As an EOD tech, I can already tell you that I don’t know when the damn things are going to go off anyways, so really it doesn’t make any difference to me… ha.

    And this does put a smile on my face for the record.

  45. #49 January 31, 2011 at 9:46 am

    Gavin commented:

    Finally, SPAM does some good!

© Copyright 2012, TheGatewayPundit.com. All rights reserved.
Privacy Policy | Terms and Conditions | Web Development By Arlington Kirk