Suicide bomber prematurely killed by text message from cellular provider

[thewayne]

I love irony. She was setting up at a safe house, apparently to detonate a bomb belt at a New Year's celebration, with her cell phone connected to the bomb belt when her cell provider sent out a text message to everyone wishing them a happy new year and it detonated the bomb, killing the woman, and I haven't heard that anyone else was killed. She was believed "to be part of the same group that struck Moscow's Domodedovo airport on Monday."

Further, "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."

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/01/sms-suicide-bomber/

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/killer-text-a-russian-suicide-bomber-blows-up-by-accident/8015?tag=mantle_skin;content

http://www.leaderpost.com/news/Text+message+blows+suicide+bomber+accident/4172966/story.html

http://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/01/28/1228241/Spam-Text-Prematurely-Blows-Up-Suicide-Bomber

Comments

[silveradept]

I believe this is one of the first recorded instances of spam killing someone, instead of someone killing spam.