Evil, evil people.
Explosive-stuffed dolls, #Daesh "gift" to Iraqi children.
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— NedoUkraïnka (@ValLisitsa) November 20, 2015
Daily Mail: The ISIS bombs hidden inside dolls and toys to kill CHILDREN: Iraqi military reveal IEDs placed in toys by Islamists
* Iraqi security forces defused and destroyed 18 doll-bombs in Baghdad
* Bomb plot set to target Shia Muslims on pilgrimage for upcoming holiday
* The dolls had been filled with explosives before being dressed again
* ISIS is led by and mainly composed of Sunni Muslims from Iraq and Syria
Iraqi security forces have seized more than a dozen booby trapped dolls which had been part of an ISIS bomb plot against Shia pilgrims.
Security forces in Baghdad defused and destroyed 18 IEDs which had been hidden inside the hollow bodies of children's toys, before being dressed in doll clothes.
ISIS had planned on scattering the doll-bombs on the road between the Iraqi capital and Karbala, where millions of Shia Muslims are set to walk during the annual pilgrimage for Arbaeen next month.
WNU Editor: Like all the news that is coming from the Middle East .... I am always sceptical when I read reports like this one. Is it true? I do not know. But I do know that the wars that are engulfing the Middle East are getting worse, and hiding bombs in dolls is minor in caparison to the whole-scale slaughter that is now occurring almost everywhere else.
More News On Reports That The Islamic State Is Hiding Bombs In Dolls To Kill Shiite Children
Booby-trapped dolls seized in Baghdad; Isis planned bomb blasts during Arbaeen -- IBTimes
Targeting children: ISIS uses dolls as booby-trap bombs to attack mass Shia pilgrimage -- RT
Islamic State booby-trap DOLLS in twisted bid to kill KIDS -- Express
6 comments:
Not the first time bombs have been hidden in toys to target kids.
WNU Editor,
Some tips for the next Paris updates:
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/france-s-unresolved-algerian-war-sheds-light-on-the-paris-attack-a6736901.html
http://ericmargolis.com/2015/11/the-first-paris-massacre/
Thank you Jay for the links.
One of my father's interests/responsibilities included knowing all that there is/was to know about the French Foreign Legion .... and over the years while growing up I got to know a lot about the legion through my dad's research. Eric Margolis quotes Art Buchwald that a good chunk of the Foreign Legion were former German soldiers or Waffen SS from WWII. That is not true. According to my father (and this is coming from my spotty memory of that time) ... after the Second World War many top German officers did apply to serve in the Foreign legion .... and many of them were sent to Indochina to battle the Communists. They were also very successful in the war .... taking their experience of combating Russian partisans during the Second World War to the jungles of Laos and Vietnam. Apparently .... (according to my father it was Russian intelligence who made the leak) .... it was leaked to the French press that Waffen SS were serving in the Foreign Legion .... the subsequent scandal resulted in a purge of the Legion. A year or two later .... with many of their top German officers and NCOs gone .... Dien Bien Phu was the inevitable result.
Sighhh .... Jay .... its moments like this I wish my father was still around. Over the years I have met a lot of people who have served in the military/intelligence community/diplomatic corp .... but I have yet to meet anyone who was as educated, experienced, and almost always right on military warfare and strategy as my father.
WNU Editor,
Myth and legend are the cornerstone of the Legion.
Facts, not so much.
The Legion was "purged" not so much because of Nazi's, or even Germans, ( many of the Germans were East Germans), but because of the large numbers of Officers, NCO's and enlisted men who publically came out for the Coup, then later, joined the terrorist OAS.
Dien Bien Phu was not a result of the changes to the Legion, but instead, the hubris of the French Military attempting an "airbase" concept in Vietnam Mihn territory, when they could not manage the daily air supply for the base in the dry season, let alone the monsoons.
Then, there was the total absence of camouflage of the base, the Vietnam Mihn overlooks, the lack of bunkers and strongpoints, the lack of contiguous trench systems and defensive lines, Viet Mihn air defences and the fact that in heavy artillary, the French were outgunned 17:1, and because of the Viet Mihn artillary bunker systems, both airstrikes and counter battery fire was completely ineffective.
And General Võ Nguyên Giáp. A badass O.G.
RRH,
Yes and no.
Giap started the campaign against Dien Bien Phu with Human Wave tactics.
Month of losses, eventually caused him to shift back to combined arms teams, squad tactics and good old fashioned siege warfare, which eventually won the day.
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