Report: Failed Al Qaeda Plot Involving Sewing Bombs Inside Dogs

[RamboLiberal]

Source: Fox News

Al Qaeda operatives in Iraq attempted to unleash terror in the skies by deploying a pair of kamikaze canines on a U.S.-bound airplane, a French newspaper reports.

The canine-centered plot failed because the bombs were so poorly stitched inside the dogs that they died, Paris daily Le Figaro reports.

"This case illustrates the determination of Al Qaeda militants, who are trying to circumvent terrorism controls by any means," French criminologist and aviation expert Christophe Naudin told the newspaper.

The plot unfolded roughly two years ago, when Al Qaeda militants grabbed two stray dogs off the street and surgically implanted powerful explosives and detonators in each. The dog were then taken a Baghdad airport in kennel carriers, destined for a flight to the U.S., the newspaper reports.



Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/11/08/report-failed-al-qaeda-plot-involving-sewings-bombs-inside-dogs/

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If true - bastards!

[JackintheGreen]

1. If true: more evidence we're dealing with cowards

I mean, they proved in Saudi Arabia that it is possible to insert explosives into people. Granted, that plan didn't work, but they could work out the glitches, right?

Instead they put bombs into dogs.

You wanna kill people, swallow the gol-darned bombs yourselves. You don't get into heaven by killing dogs. If fact, wouldn't that just soil you, spiritually speaking I mean? Aren't dogs unclean. I mean, more unclean than even murder?

[sofa king]

8. "Cowardice" mischaracterizes the issue.

What we're seeing is a vastly overwhelmed enemy trying desperately to find a target soft enough to reliably hit. Their ruthlessness and willingness to sacrifice their own is not in question. Nor, for that matter, is ours.

We might call the attacks of 9/11 cowardly because they used our own civilians as weapons against us, but to them it was a very, very successful military and economic attack, one which turned our own tools against us. It furthermore required at least four people to knowingly sacrifice their lives, acts of personal courage which directly compare to the dozens of Medals of Honor awarded to Americans who dove on grenades to save their fellow soldiers (that's just one kind of example).

People willing to do that have not gone away. 9/11 was a once-only attack that can never be reliably repeated. They target civilian planes because they're high-dollar targets that generate wave after wave of costs to the enemy (direct costs, countermeasure costs, and the costs of classic American overreaction), but also because they have a better chance of succeeding against civilian aircraft than against military aircraft. They don't sew explosives into humans because humans are invasively searched while pets aren't.

That's not cowardice. That's relentless prodding of a strong enemy in search of something--anything--that they can hit. It means that their will to fight still exists, though their ability to do it is severely reduced.

[RZM]

2. Allow me to quote Groucho Marx . . .

'Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.'

[RedCloud]

14. +1

[proteus_lives]

3. I can see this being true.

The Russian military tried using dogs strapped with bombs in WWII.

And we attempt to use dolphins in the Navy.

[CJvR]

25. Yes, the tank dogs...

IIRC the first attempt backfired rather spectaculary when the dogs, trained on Soviet tanks, rejected the German Panzers and went off in search of the proper Soviet tanks. Unfortunately once that little misshap was corrected the dog-mobile mine was effective to the point that the Germans gunned down every dog that even looked at them.

[DesertFlower]

4. disgusting. nt

[Gormy Cuss]

5. And some people think bombs in human body cavities are a far-fetched idea n/t

[Nostradammit]

6. Here's the formula for determining the veracity of a Fox "News" report:

1. If it's coming from Fox "News" there is a 1% chance that it's true.

2. If it involves Al Queda and is coming from Fox "News" the total from step one
should be divided by one billion.

[CLANG]

15. Exactly what I was thinking! This is probably more FUD for their regular viewers.

[TicketyBoo]

7. "Read more?"

That was the whole story (at least by the time I got there).

[JonLP24]

24. Just the way the DU software is set up

The read more part will always be there if you post a link in the "link" section when posting an LBN article.

[TicketyBoo]

27. Okay…

so NOW I know. Thanks.

[Sherman A1]

9. ooooh, sounds like the Soviet WWII Dog Anti-Tank Mine

Which involved a dog, an attached explosive with plunger and a hope that they would head towards the German tanks and not the Soviet ones on the battlefield.

[SoapBox]

10. ...this stuff makes me want to vomit.

[kestrel91316]

11. I suppose I should comment,

but I seriously have no words.

Poor dogs probably eviscerated postop or died of infection. People are such asshats.

[harvey007]

12. It happens here too

http://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-experimentation/US-military-animal-testing.aspx

http://www.humanesociety.org/news/press_releases/2009/11/experiments_on_pets_111709.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogs_in_warfare

[A Physicist]

13. I’d take this with a grain of salt

until you hear from independent additional sources, check out the information chain.

First it’s a Fox Report which relies on a French Newspaper:

“Report: Failed Al Qaeda Plot Involving Sewing Bombs Inside Dogs

Published November 08, 2010 FoxNews.com”



“The canine-centered plot failed because the bombs were so poorly stitched inside the dogs that they died, Paris daily Le Figaro reports.”



Now checkout the Wikipedia entry for Le Figaro:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Figaro

Political alignment: Centre-right

And get this one:

“Highly controversial both inside and outside the newspaper is its ownership by a person who also controls a major military supplier, as well as being a mayor and senator from the ruling UMP party, and whose son Olivier Dassault is a member of the French National Assembly for the same party. In response, Dassault remarked in an interview on the public radio station France Inter, that "newspapers must promulgate healthy ideas", and that "left-wing ideas are not healthy ideas."

This may turnout to be true but I know Fox and I’m guessing Le Figaro are in the business of manufacturing Islamic hatred and they know how much we westerners love our dogs. I think I’ll hold my powder until I hear from more trustworthy sources.

[CLANG]

17. I googled it!

It's a fox news story, repeated by the NY Post, and on twitter. Sounds like a complete lie to me.

[tomm2thumbs]

16. well, it is obvious Beck's brain has been surgically replaced with something else

wondering what it might be - and why he still appears to have some functioning, albeit on the intelligence level of a termite

[AlbertCat]

18. Are they getting more clever or more desperate? I can't tell.

[Nostradammit]

19. Who, Fox "News"?

[Psephos]

20. Why? Have they run low on mentally disabled women?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22945797/

[woo me with science]

26. Up next: cute orphans. nt

[Nossida]

21. ridiculous

If it came from Fvx, you know its a lie.

[24601]

22. Don't they care they could get into legal trouble? Just ask Michael

Vick!

[JonLP24]

23. This type of thing isn't new

I don't know about terror plots but animals/dead animals have been used over there as IEDs. Whoever plants those things are very creative in ways they hide the bombs.

[TheWatcher]

28. More Evidence that this is how Stupid TPTB think we are.

They think we'll buy anything at this point.

And unfortunately, for the most part, they're right.

What an asylum.