Taliban Suicide Bombing Patterns

[Jedburgh]

Suicide Bomber Falls Down Stairs and Blows Himself Up

A would-be suicide bomber fell down a flight of stairs and blew himself up as he headed out for an attack in Afghanistan, police say.

It was the second such incident in two days, with another man killing himself and three others on Tuesday when his bomb-filled waistcoat exploded as he was putting it on in the southern town of Lashkar Gah.

Yesterday's blast was in a busy market area of the eastern town of Khost, a deputy provincial police chief said.....

[Rex Brynen]

Suicide Bomber Falls Down Stairs and Blows Himself Up

I guess all that SOF "tie their shoe laces together when they're not looking" training is paying off...

[AdamG]

Suicide Bomber Falls Down Stairs and Blows Himself Up

Damn, you beat me to it! See that on Fark?

There's some sound history and reasoning behind having a pin in a grenade, a fuse on your artillery round, and a safety on your IED

IED = the zip gun of the ordnance world*.
* YMMV. Front towards Enemy. Have all contraptions inspected by a competent Jihadi before use.

[Stan]

Damn, you beat me to it! See that on Fark?

There's some sound history and reasoning behind having a pin in a grenade, a fuse on your artillery round, and a safety on your IED

[Tom Odom]

I guess all that SOF "tie their shoe laces together when they're not looking" training is paying off...

I had visions of a "Life Alert" commercial...

"I have fallen downstairs and pieces of me are stuck on the ceiling.."

[gh_uk]

Further operator error:

Three NATO soldiers were wounded in one of the incidents and, in another, three civilians were hurt when a suicide vest detonated as it was being strapped to a would-be attacker in the southwestern province of Nimroz, the provincial governor said.

The man trying to put on the vest and someone helping him were killed in the explosion, which took place in a small grocery store, Nimroz governor Ghulam Dastageer Azad said.

"The shop collapsed and three civilians outside were wounded, two critically," he said. The owner of the store may have been working with Taliban insurgents, he added.

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