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Underpants bomber failed in mission to blow up airliner because...
Mail Online ^ | 7/25/14 | James Rush

Posted on 07/25/2014 6:32:36 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo

The notorious underwear bomber's plot in 2009 to blow up a plane on Christmas Day failed because the explosives became 'degraded' after he wore the same pair of underpants for two weeks, according to a U.S. official.

Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was on a suicide mission when he attempted to detonate a bomb in his underpants as the plane, en route from Amsterdam, approached Detroit.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bomber; skidmarks; underpants
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Amazing that they are able to reproduce. —

I have read that Camels need help to ‘do it’.

Camels, goats, etc.


21 posted on 07/25/2014 7:59:07 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob
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To: Scrambler Bob

I’ll let you do the research on that...

;-)


22 posted on 07/25/2014 8:00:45 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Please $upport Free Republic.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

a dirty bomb ????


23 posted on 07/25/2014 8:06:56 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Tennessee Nana

A dirty, filthy, icky... bomb.


24 posted on 07/25/2014 8:08:07 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Please $upport Free Republic.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
A dirty, filthy, icky... bomb.

Like an after-spinach diaper.

25 posted on 07/25/2014 8:23:38 PM PDT by lightman (O Lord, save Thy people and bless Thine inheritance, giving to Thy Church vict'ry o'er Her enemies.)
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To: lightman

Popeye must have been a real difficult baby.


26 posted on 07/25/2014 8:29:05 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Please $upport Free Republic.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo; All

There’s an old way to deal with this problem!

Forwards, backwards, inside - out!

It’ll keep one fresh for awhile.

(If you’re Infantry, you just go without.)


27 posted on 07/26/2014 6:44:56 AM PDT by x1stcav (Leftism is like rust. It corrodes twenty-four hous a day.)
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