Danish one-legged bomber may be al Qaeda-trained
The Danes arrested a homegrown bomber after his unsuccessful attempt to send a bomb through the mail – it detonated prematurely taking out his hotel room toilet instead. The Danes are easily impressed, I guess;
“This guy seems unlike most of the domestic jihadis we have seen up to now,” Danish terrorism researcher Michael Taarnby told The Washington Times. “His tradecraft is highly professional.”
Mr. Taarnby said the suspect has made “none of the stupid mistakes” that have marked other failed terrorism plots in Europe and the United States.
None of the usual stupid mistakes, I suppose, but blowing yourself up in the bathroom isn’t the mark of a highly trained assassin, either. Of course, all it takes to impress the Europeans is to hide yourself among a few million citizens…right up until the time you detonate the bomb in your hotel room. I’ll bet they were REALLY impressed with Richard Reed, the shoe bomber when he actually got his bomb to the target, but couldn’t light his sweat-soaked matches. And the Christmas bomber toasted his ‘nads at a few thousand feet for the tourists. or the Times Square bomber who locked the keys to his get-a-way car inside his bomb after he lit the fuse.
The Europeans need to stop talking about how professional and skilled these morons are…it only encourages them more and emboldens recruits to join. But of course, since we’re talking about Europeans, their over-inflated egos and their dying race.
Oh, yeah, one of these days a terrorist is going to actually succeed. Against all odds, they may actually be successful at killing large numbers of people. We can’t depend on them to continue to screw up – we need to stop them at their source.
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Category: Terror War
As with the undies bomber, the Times Square bomber, etc. The law of averages are in their favor, because all it will take is one, just one, to succeed. Just think if any of those others had succeeded? The only thing that stopped them was poor craftmanship on their part. The only reason that the Times Square bomber got caught was not our venerable DHS, but rather the airline that he was taking out of the US.
Matt lied about the beer (unless he’s got some), but I do have some decent single malt. That’ll have to do. As far as professional tradecraft goes, it doesn’t take much of that to move around the “Schengen Zone” in Europe; borders are open if you have the right passport. You also don’t have to be AQ to keep your mouth shut. I’ve seen two-bit wise guys do the same. And setting a bomb off in your own hotel room is generally not an indicator of high training standards.
So, is this the start of a bar room joke: “A one legged-danish jihadi was sitting on a loo with a bomb….”