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Somalian terrorist was on the wrong flight

by Jonn Lilyea••74

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I read this story on Facebook last week, but it really sounded too good to be true, so I doubted it. I guess my BS detector was malfunctioning that day, because the story is true. It looks like this Somalian terrorist guy got on a Daalo Airlines flight out of Mogadishu Airport. He had a laptop computer that was packed with explosives with him on the flight. He detonated it in the air, then he got sucked out of the hole created by the resulting explosion – the only reported casualty of his own terrorism. No one has taken credit for the attempt, oddly enough.

Daallo Airlines chief executive, Mohamed Yassin, said most of the passengers who were on the bombed flight were scheduled to fly with Turkish Airlines, but were flown to Djibouti by one of his planes after the Turkish carrier canceled its flight, citing bad weather.

“That particular passenger (who was behind the blast) boarded the aircraft on a Turkish Airlines boarding pass and was on the list for the Turkish Airlines manifest,” Yassin told Reuters by telephone from Dubai.

So, not only did the terrorist attack go wrong, from the bombers perspective, anyway, he was on the wrong flight, too. The best laid plans of mice and men…. Apparently, law enforcement found closed circuit television footage of the terrorist being handed the bomb after he went through security checks. But, I’d prefer to walk to another country if I had to fly out of Mogadishu Airport anyway.

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74 thoughts on “Somalian terrorist was on the wrong flight”

  1. ‘Splodeydopes, one minute you see them and the next thing you know they’re all over the place. Young jihadis, they blow up so fast, but that one embraced the suck even thing he had just gone to pieces!

    1. “…even THOUGH he had just gone to pieces” I have to do a better job of proofreading, I need another cup of coffee…

      1. OH, PLEASE! You only drove for four hours and slept for five. Another cup of coffee? You need a full can of coffee ??

  3. This brings to mind a few incident reports I saw while deployed some years ago.

    While I won’t discuss the details, let’s just say that often terrorists “ain’t exactly the brightest bulbs on the tree.”

    1. For sure. You never have the “Smart Leadership” blowing themselves up like happens in hollywood movies.

      This is the typical suicide bomber. The dumbest guy in the room that believes he’ll be a martyr and have 72 virgins (or Virginians) for eternity.

      1. Not Virginians! They’ll beat the crap out of him or her for eternity…their dumber than rocks, but that’s giving rocks a bad name..

  5. Osama bin Laden had just been plugged and was waiting at the pearly gates when along came George Washington who decked him right then and there. A moment later Thomas Jefferson walked by and gave him a heavy kick in the balls followed by Robert E. Lee kicking him hard in the face while he was bent over. Bin Laden screamed “WAIT! I am supposed to have 72 Virgins!” To which General Lee replied “No, you get looked after by 72 Virginians.”

  7. This story just makes me smile…shitbag terrorist and accomplices with plan to do great harm succeed in doing harm but only to the shitbag terrorist…

    I’m wondering how long before airlines just stop servicing these shitholes because you can’t trust anyone working there.

    I’m also wondering how much longer the US will allow its airfleet to be serviced in central America to save money. Hopefully they’ll end that practice before someone or something is compromised.

    1. Yep. Kinda a “3 strikes and yer out” day for the terrorist:

      (1) Bomb didn’t take out the target.
      (2) Struck the wrong target.
      (3) Only casualty was the terrorist.

      I’d say that the above is proof there is a God – and He has an ironic sense of humor. (smile)

      1. It’s the same God that keeps cancelling Global Warming conferences because they get hit by a snow blizzard.

  8. I seem to recall the TSA making people turn on their laptop before getting cleared at the security checkpoint.

    TSA freaks out whenever I travel. I have metal rods and pins throughout my body. Fortunately, it’s service connected, so I am supposed to be taken care of for the rest of my life by the VA.

    BTW, I had to remind my VA PCP yesterday that I am a service connected disabled veteran and that she shouldn’t make it so hard for me to receive physical therapy.

    For the most part, I avoid the VA when it comes to healthcare. I have Tricare Prime and get treated well at the local AFB.

    1. Those lovely days of W95. Always wondered if anyone ever noticed that with a small circuit board and a watch battery you could turn on that Windows 95 logo onscreen – and still have room for several pounds of your personal preference (Semtex, C4 etc) in the rest of the empty notebook shell, and that’s when they stopped making us fire the damn notebooks up.

  10. Based on what I have learned, the explosion DID NOT kill the terrorist. However the abrupt deceleration that did occur, when he hit the ground, most probably killed him instantly!

    Terminal Velocity + 200 g’s + hard packed ground = Paradise!

    2. It is good to know the bomb only wounded him. Hate to imagine he went before he felt anything or knew his God had abandoned his cause.

  11. Who the F would fly on Somalia Air. You might as well sign up to be the cigarette lighter guy in a gas leak. Sooner or later you are going to blow up.

          1. Super ninja Adam Appel was a TSA screener but had it as a spooky DHS job on his resume.

            Holden

      2. Some years ago a friend flew in and out of Lagos. He complimented them on their fast airport service. You arrive at the curb, hand a kid $20, you are checked in, your luggage is stowed on the plane and you are installed in your seat — no inconvenient security checks, walk right straight to the aircraft door.

        I hear that Mogadishu can match that.

        1. I flew in and out of Addis Ababa a few years back. Completely different experience. They ran a full screening but it was still easier than boarding a flight in the US. The hardest part of getting to my plane was getting the sample flat screen I’d been demonstrating for Ethiopian Airlines out of customs. That involved me running through passport control with no passport and up several flights of stairs at 8000′ altitude. It was quite a workout.

  12. Terrorist dies and goes to heaven. Meets Saint Peter at the gates and asks for Mohammed, ST Peter says he is up stairs. Akmed is thrilled!!
    So he goes up to the next level and sees Moses and asks for Mohammed. Moses says he is up stairs further. Akmed always knew that Mohammed was an anointed one. So he goes up another level and sees Jesus and God and asks for Mohammed. God says he right over there, Akmed now knows he was right that Mohammed was to be with God. God then asks Akmed if he would like a coffee, Akmed says yes. God bellows out, Mohammed 3 Coffees, and hurry.

  14. This one is even funnier than the terrorist who put a bomb up his ass to get it through security. He walked up to said diplomat, shook his hand, and detonated the bomb…which was still up his ass. Hilarity ensued.

    2. So one brother told the other brother to “blow it out your a**?”

      Talk about explosive diarrhea. Don’t drink the water.

      Sorry. I have a shi**y sense of humor.

      2. In this case, maybe he told his brother “blow out your ass” instead. And his brother took him literally. (smile)

  18. I guess this means I’ll have to cancel my trip to Ankara to visit my Uncle. (yeah, right!)

    A trip to Dublin is more like it, plus they drink (lots) of beer in Ireland!

  19. Reminds me of the funeral procession for the suicide bomber who got plugged, but somehow people forgot to take off his splodey vest first.

  20. Second best possible outcome. Better would have been it detonated in the presence of the bomb maker when he took delivery of the bomb.

    2. Very true, I always love hearing about “Wile E. Coyote Bombers” and that boy was one!

  21. Lotsa folk fly in and out of Mog. Plenty of UN,NGO,private contractors, embassy types and plain loons. Never had an issue. But then I trust in a good G&T and a loudly muttered inshallah to get me through ;-).

    1. He got impatient with the flight, asked too many, “Are we there yet?” questions, then decided to deplane early. :mrgreen:

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