[Infowarrior] - Fwd: Text message blows up Moscow suicide bomber by accident

[Richard Forno]

"Oopsie!"    --- rick

Begin forwarded message:

> From: DS
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> http://www.vancouversun.com/story_print.html?id=4172993
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> Text message blows up Moscow suicide bomber by accident
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> 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.
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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 near Red Square on New Year's Eve in an attack that could have killed hundreds.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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