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1. #1
   On May 27th, 2008 at 1:22 am, love2rumba said:

   Perhaps we’ve killed off the smart jihadis and are working our way down the food chain..progress at last on the War on Terror in Iraq.

   Maybe next time we will see them behead each other in slapstick…Allah (ala) Abbott and Costello

2. #2
   On May 27th, 2008 at 1:26 am, alaskangrizzly said:

   That’s one smart jihadi right there Thanks, I needed a good chuckle. Killing one’s self with an RPG is a new first on video I think.

3. #3
   On May 27th, 2008 at 1:32 am, alaskangrizzly said:

   Actually I may stand corrected, after replaying the 2-3 seconds over and over again of him firing it at the building you see him in the smoke running down the street. Hard to tell if he got hit by some of his own shrapnel or not, but others are definitely not vertical afterwards.

4. #4
   On May 27th, 2008 at 4:31 am, localmalcontent said:

   Anxious to meet the 72 girls, are ya?
   Prepare to be reeally disappointed…

5. #5
   On May 27th, 2008 at 5:37 am, graysonret said:

   When all you can do is recruit the stupid and ignorant, this is what you get for militia. They end up being more of a threat to themselves than us.

6. #6
   On May 27th, 2008 at 5:56 am, bloghooligan said:

   ROFLROFL…0wn3d!!

   OMG…ROFL. TFF.

7. #7
   On May 27th, 2008 at 6:11 am, maine yankee said:

   After the war, he has a future in Iraq’s new congress.

8. #8
   On May 27th, 2008 at 6:13 am, UnknownSailor said:

   I do believe that RPGs have a minimum arming distance for the warhead, what it is I don’t know.

9. #9
   On May 27th, 2008 at 7:03 am, Tennessee Dave said:

   Some help please, how do you say “Hey y’all, watch this!” in Arabic?
   This is Darwinism at it’s best. I can’t help but think of comedian Bill Engval and wonder who was holding this guy’s sign.

10. #10
    On May 27th, 2008 at 7:14 am, ajmontana said:

    Just think of the damage this idiot could have done if he was driving a tank.
    Opps, there goes headquarters.

11. #11
    On May 27th, 2008 at 7:48 am, Texas Tiger said:

    You know education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well, and if you don’t you get stuck in Iraq firing an RPG at the Yankees.
    –Imam Janeff Cari

12. #12
    On May 27th, 2008 at 8:17 am, terrig said:

    Oh brother.

13. #13
    On May 27th, 2008 at 8:18 am, abstractmind said:

    “to the left!!!”

    “NOOO!!! YOUR OTHER LEFT!!!!”

    LOL

    video had it slightly wrong

    r0flpWn3d

    thanks for the vid, got the morning started off right.

14. #14
    On May 27th, 2008 at 8:28 am, docflash said:

    He just became one of my favorite Jihads.

15. #15
    On May 27th, 2008 at 8:35 am, Rob said:

    Yes, they are stupid, and it is nice to see a few more eliminated, but these are the same animals that cut the heads off of innocents while still alive and post the videos on the internet. They must all be killed.

16. #16
    On May 27th, 2008 at 8:43 am, Boomer said:

    Rats! I have to wait until I get home to see this one. Always good to hear about some Darwin kills among our enemies in this war. Less work for our guys and for the dead bad guys, No virgins for you!

17. #17
    On May 27th, 2008 at 8:43 am, st_james said:

    Nothing like a good snuff film to start the work week. The sun is shining, the birds are chirping…Life’s good.

18. #18
    On May 27th, 2008 at 9:30 am, spo-con said:

    Mustapha, hold my beer and watch this ! POOM………………..

19. #19
    On May 27th, 2008 at 10:11 am, pueblo1032 said:

    Thanks HA, I needed that to get me started this AM. LARRY, MOE and CURLY could not have done it better….

20. #20
    On May 27th, 2008 at 10:31 am, MikeOK said:

    “Allu Akbar! Allu Akbar! Allu Akbar! Allu Akbar! Allu Akbar! Allu Akbar!”

21. #21
    On May 27th, 2008 at 10:56 am, wise_man said:

    On May 27th, 2008 at 8:43 am, st_james said: Nothing like a good snuff film to start the work week. The sun is shining, the birds are chirping…Life’s good.

    Someone would have to actually die in order to call it a “snuff” film. When I watched this, I saw the man standing until the camera no longer had him in view.

22. #22
    On May 27th, 2008 at 10:58 am, see-dubya said:

    If you look at the end, there’s a foot on the ground. These guys were at the least knocked down by the blast and I bet the RPG moron is much the worse for the wear.

23. #23
    On May 27th, 2008 at 11:03 am, st_james said:

    #21 – One can always dream!

24. #24
    On May 27th, 2008 at 11:08 am, rambler said:

    Work hard, get an education? Why waste all that effort when becoming a jihadi is soooo easy and requires no intellegence, no training and no skills. Anyone so easily lured by the promise of 72 virgins has not thought about the hell of being around 72 postpartum women!

25. #25
    On May 27th, 2008 at 12:11 pm, sonofdy said:

    No virgins for YOU!!!

    (think the soup nazi, seinfield)

26. #26
    On May 27th, 2008 at 12:17 pm, gandolphxx said:

    Generally natural selection rules tend to remove the weakest, least capable – same with authority vs criminals. It seems that the 7th century barbarians have managed to reverse this – they seem to have nothing but weak and stupid.

27. #27
    On May 27th, 2008 at 12:24 pm, ADyer said:

    I do believe that RPGs have a minimum arming distance for the warhead, what it is I don’t know.
    

    All launched grenades, rocket propelled or otherwise, have mechanisms to keep the warhead from exploding until they have traveled a safe distance from the user. It’s hard to tell exactly what happened in this video, but it seems extremely unlikely that a guy was actually killed/severely injured by the explosion of his own rocket’s warhead. It could be a hoax, or it could be something else causing the explosion.

28. #28
    On May 27th, 2008 at 12:39 pm, abstractmind said:

    On May 27th, 2008 at 12:24 pm, ADyer said

    i’ve read the wiki for it under RPG, and it says for the HE version that its detonation on impact…would tell me its hot upon release.

    i’ll keep checking and see if there are any other safety features…if there’s a min arming distance, is it possible to override?
    i’ll keep looking

29. #29
    On May 27th, 2008 at 12:46 pm, abstractmind said:

    http://science.howstuffworks.com/rpg3.htm

    here ya go.

    something of note:

    There are several types of grenades that can be used in the RPG-7. Some have a point initiating, base-detonating (PIBD) piezoelectric fuze: meaning that they are impact grenades. And, many others have back-up time delay systems, so that if they have not reached a target in a certain amount of time (something like four and a half seconds) the grenade will self destruct. The most commonly launched grenades are a High Explosive(HE) or High Explosive Anti Tank (HEAT) rounds.

    Impact grenades must be unarmed until they are actually fired because any accidental contact might set them off. Since they are usually shot from a launcher, they must have an automatic arming system. In some designs, like the one we describe above, the arming system is triggered by the propellant explosion that drives the grenade out of the launcher. In other designs, the grenade’s acceleration or rotation during its flight arms the detonator.

30. #30
    On May 27th, 2008 at 4:07 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    I do believe that RPGs have a minimum arming distance for the warhead, what it is I don’t know.

    Looks like about 10′.

31. #31
    On May 27th, 2008 at 8:24 pm, Minicapt said:

    The PG7 projectile is launched by a booster in inside the launcher (the booster is at the tail of the round). After the projectile travels about 7m, a time fuse ignites the rocket motor which propels it to max range. The ignition of the motor serves to arm the warhead fuse. A timer on the fuse triggers it if the projectile does not hit something in time.

    It would appear from the video that the projectile hit something in the alley (off camera) immediately after the fuse went live. The explosion would have thus have occurred too far for fatal results, but close enough for serious injury.

    Cheers

32. #32
    On May 28th, 2008 at 1:28 am, bob121 said:

    Yeshua Ackbar!

33. #33
    On May 28th, 2008 at 3:13 pm, abstractmind said:

    I wish we had slow mo..but the explosion looks to have blown the shooter to bits..looks like he hit the bricks right in front of him.

34. #34
    On May 29th, 2008 at 12:35 pm, KCK said:

    This surpasses the dozens of idiotic mortarmen that are afraid of their mortar tubes that I keep seeing on vids.

    At least they are afraid of their own ignorance….

35. #35
    On May 29th, 2008 at 11:59 pm, mattm said:

    I need a good laugh. I wish that was shown on the MSM.

36. #36
    On June 7th, 2008 at 9:10 pm, IrishEyes said:

    Hmmm, is this how Achmed the Dead Terrorist got his start/end?

37. #37
    On June 16th, 2008 at 11:02 am, Tantor said:

    I’m starting to see a lot of these jihadi blooper reels where they off themselves through sheer stupidity. It makes me think letting them have an atom bomb may not be such a bad idea.