Posted on 01/01/2014 9:27:32 AM PST by NormsRevenge
A Palestinian diplomat has been killed by an explosion at his home in the Czech capital Prague.
Jamal al-Jamal, the head of the Palestinian mission, had been taken to hospital after the explosion but died of his injuries some four hours later.
Palestinian officials said the blast happened when Mr Jamal was moving a safe. Czech police say there is no evidence that it was a planned attack.
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Mr Jamal had only recently moved into the property.
Palestinian officials have been quoted as saying the blast took place when Mr Jamal attempted to move a safe from an old embassy building to the new one.
"The device was in a safe and was triggered after the door of the safe was opened. The police are not ruling out that the device was a part of the safe," Czech police spokeswoman Andrea Zoulova told Reuters.
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Folks, it pays to hire a professional. Moving a safe can be a risky affair.
Anyone wanna place bets that he was constructing a bomb and it exploded?
“Palestinian diplomat”; is that an oxymoron?
where else would you keep safe blowing-up kind of stuff than in a safe..
the move may have jostled some of the contents or tripped a switch or??
Another Palestinian work accident.
Diplomatic pouches have been known to transport explosives. Part of pre Olympic preparations?
5.56mm
The documents contained some explosive information.
Yet another sign that the PA continues to engage in terrorism. Of course, the rest of the world will conveniently ignore this.
Hoist by his own petard?
Stand around on a launching pad long enough and you’re going to get launched.
It could have been booby-trapped to ensure that the contents are destroyed if anyone tries to break in, not an uncommon practice when storing sensitive material.
I wouldn’t bet against it.
A Crip or a Blood?
The Safe Act
I would think they would use thermite (to combust the documents) rather than an explosive (which would scatter them around in readable fragments).
Sounds more like a "work accident".
A German diplomat was recently targeted in Athens. Or perhaps some payback from Putin for the recent bombings in Stalingrad.
For a few hours after the blast, a bloody crip.
“Anyone wanna place bets that he was constructing a bomb and it exploded?”
That explanation has the advantage of making sense, unlike what they are saying.
Sorry is we are defaming this man unfairly, but this is one fishy story.
The Palestinian ambassador to the Czech Republic was killed in an explosion when he tried to get into a safe which had been sealed for 30 years..
Hasn't been opened in 30 years? Yeah, what was that de-arming sequence again?
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